5/17/2023 0 Comments Humble pie coupons![]() ![]() Cost is $65 per person, including tax and tip. And Scandia on Sunset Strip hosts a five-course wine dinner Thursday at 7 p.m., featuring the wines of Robert Mondavi. Price is $40 prepaid and $45 at the door. Caruso and Me in San Pedro features the wines of Guenoc with a seven-course repast Wednesday at 7 p.m. The all-inclusive price is $70 per person. Aperitifs are served at 6:30 p.m., with dinner at 7. WHAT’S COOKIN’?: Monique in South Laguna matches Matanzas Creek vintages with a six-course dinner Monday. Authentic French ingredients are reportedly brought in twice a week via Air France. Le Riviera, opened by the food service firm of Potel & Chabot, sits on a boat in the Moscow River, near the city’s International Commerce Center. VIVE LE GLASNOST : Moscow now has its first French restaurant in modern times. I’m sure they don’t need his patronage, or that of anyone else who presumes to find fault with their eating place. I’m sure Wantig and Desmet feel they were correct and their patron was wrong in this matter, and I’m sure they feel much better now that they’ve gotten back at him. Because one of the things the patron complained about was the quality of the coffee, the restaurateurs reimbursed him for that amount alone-a vaguely contemptuous gesture, it seems to me, like leaving a 2% tip for a waiter. It, too, is a reply to an unhappy patron-but it seeks to fight back and deny the validity of the customer’s complaints. Desmet, proprietors of the Seashell restaurant in Woodland Hills, which was sent to Calendar by Wantig and Desmet. ![]() The flip side of customer relations is a letter written by Dieter K. Every restaurant can’t refund the dinner tab of every dissatisfied customer, of course-but in these particular cases, I’ll bet both places have made friends for life. Kudos to both establishments from this corner. “I appreciate your comments as it is a way we are able to improve.” Again, a check to cover the cost of the dinner was enclosed. Our next choice for this list of the Top 10 Humble Pie songs is the positively epic, organ-drenched 'Live With Me,' which may not deliver the same brisk kick as the album’s remaining material. “I have investigated your comments and couldn’t agree with you more,” the hotel representative replied by mail. He was disappointed in the quality of the food at Twigs restaurant at the Capitol Hill in Washington, and called to complain to the hotel’s general manager. The other pair of letters came from state Sen. Robert Bigonnet, co-proprietor of Le Chardonnay (with chef Claude Alrivy), replied promptly to Tyree, explaining his own position but also noting, “It is with sadness I see our efforts and sacrifices annihilated by a succession of mistakes on a night I was not hosting.” Ultimately he says, “Nothing will make up for a bad experience, but the least we can do after the fact is not to accept the money from you.” A check reimbursing Tyree in full for the cost of his meal was enclosed. While I’m admittedly something of a whiny power user, I don’t see any reason why this option shouldn’t be preserved, especially since so very much of Windows 11 is just a bit of interface polish over Windows 10.The first complaint, from Neilan Tyree of Los Angeles, detailed a sort of restaurant hell night he and a guest suffered recently at Le Chardonnay on Melrose Avenues-mix-ups with the reservations, confused service, miscellaneous rudeness, etc. If I may be permitted a cliche: This is a perfect example of form over function. In Windows 11, it’s gone: Microsoft is finally forcing you to use those big, lonely icons sans text labels, just like the competition. In Windows 7, 8, and 10, Microsoft preserved the ability to label launched programs, hidden in the taskbar’s settings menu, but still easy enough to find for just about anyone. What isn’t smart is taking away the ability to see which items are which via text at a glance. Moving them to the center of the screen is a pointless, but harmless, bit of cosmetics. With users more and more used to a combined launcher and window manager, integrating these tools is a smart way forward. And it makes a bit of sense: The design is merely combining the window management aspect of the taskbar and the Quick Launch toolbar first introduced in Windows XP. Microsoft clearly likes this scrunched-up interface it’s been the default look since Windows 7 in 2009. This means that even if you have a dozen items open on your desktop-as I often do-you’ll be looking at a row of relatively tiny icons, with only a few pixels of indication that there are multiple windows of some items like your browser or Windows Explorer. Use more than a few shortcuts and open apps, and the taskbar quickly becomes a row of difficult-to-spot shapes. ![]()
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