Post #31114 by Kim on Tue, Apr 22, 2003 12:00 PM

Perhaps our waiter at Trader Vics was having a bad night—overall, I felt like we got better, friendlier service from the Tonga Room staff (excluding the maitre'd) than we did at Trader Vic's, where our waiter was grumpy and exuded disapproval at us the whole time. I think he was annoyed we had the audacity to come & sit in the bar area for dinks & dessert, rather than an entire dinner. I know waitstaff tend to take umbrage at drinks-and-dessert-only, although I’ve never understood exactly why, since I would think it would be less trouble, and we still tip decently...ah, well. We’ll have to give them another chance the next time we’re near a TV.