The Salt Bae bill tweet reminds me to link to @hels's great post about the exclusive restaurant racket, where bad food is often an integral point of the experience [with Carbone, indeed, being an exception]: newyorker.com/culture/annals… 
[Note to west coasters: if you're in it solely for the food, and have an extra car payment burning a hole in your pocket, the Carbone in Vegas is exceptionally good]
I am also reminded that Frank Bruni's permanent job in journalism should be to make fun of the atrocious and insanely expensive restaurant favored by a certain kind of Manhattan swell nytimes.com/2007/11/14/din…
Part of me actually admires Cipriani charging (inflation-adjusted) "$44.95" rather than "$45" for their medicore spaghetti with tomato sauce, like a grey market audio superstore. If you haven't spotted the sucker...
But surely if you're paying hundreds of dollars for second-tier chain restaurant Italian, it must be a really comfortable room to relax in! Hahaha no
Oh, and for people who haven't seen it, the Salt Bae bill. Bragging about how you laid down a grand for a famously mediocre steak coated in literally tasteless gold leaf is like proudly displaying your degrees from Trump University in your office
https://twitter.com/maggieserota/status/1398766016281432067
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