NY's Tavern on the Green to open in SF (San Francisco: real estate, live)

[18Montclair]

Interesting. Bon Apetite

N.Y.'s famed Tavern On The Green to open S.F.'s biggest restaurant - San Francisco Business Times:

[akka]

I live right near the NY 'Tavern on the Green' and it kinda sucks to be honest. Really bad service and food/drinks are REALLY average and $$$$. It is basically a tourist trap, pretty cheesy and tacky. Old world arrogance, that could be substantially improved upon, considering the great real estate it is sitting on. They could up the quality and attitude a lot. I think they don't make much effort there, as they know they are guaranteed a steady flow of naive tourists and corporate customers. You should boycott them!!

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by akka

I live right near the NY 'Tavern on the Green' and it kinda sucks to be honest. Really bad service and food/drinks are REALLY average and $$$$. It is basically a tourist trap, pretty cheesy and tacky. Old world arrogance, that could be substantially improved upon, considering the great real estate it is sitting on. They could up the quality and attitude a lot. I think they don't make much effort there, as they know they are guaranteed a steady flow of naive tourists and corporate customers. You should boycott them!!

Its definitely a tourist trap and it fits perfectly at that proposed location.

LOL

[akka]

Ah! Ok then ...

[toughguy]

Originally Posted by akka

I live right near the NY 'Tavern on the Green' and it kinda sucks to be honest. Really bad service and food/drinks are REALLY average and $$$$. It is basically a tourist trap, pretty cheesy and tacky. Old world arrogance, that could be substantially improved upon, considering the great real estate it is sitting on. They could up the quality and attitude a lot. I think they don't make much effort there, as they know they are guaranteed a steady flow of naive tourists and corporate customers. You should boycott them!!

I agree. I had brunch there a couple of years ago. The food, service, nor atmosphere was anything better than mediocre. It felt like I paid out the a** to get the benefit of looking at a giant topiary gorilla while I ate.

[fountaingoats]

Bad food, service, and too-expensive are not the only reasons to boycott Tavern on the Green.

From the New York Times article here (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/tavern-on-the-green-pays-22-million-to-settle-bias-claim/index.html): (broken link)

"In a news release announcing the settlement, the commission said on Monday that Tavern on the Green had 'engaged in severe and pervasive sexual, racial and national origin harassment of female, black and Hispanic employees.'

"The federal commission said the sexual harassment had included graphic comments and demands for sexual acts, as well as groping of women’s buttocks and breasts.

"When the commission filed the lawsuit last September, it also said a top manager had engaged in severe harassment of black employees and had harassed Hispanic employees, sometimes addressing them as 'ignorant immigrants' and ridiculing their accents.

"Moreover, the commission said the restaurant had retaliated against employees for refusing to consent to the harassment or for objecting to it."

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"When the E.E.O.C. filed the case last September, it asserted that the restaurant — not just one manager — was guilty of sexual harassment because it 'knew or should have known of the severe and pervasive harassment, yet failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly the harassing behavior.'"

My guess is that this is NOT the kind of establishment that San Franciscans want in their city.