re: Latest food/drink things that annoy you

Oh Inso agree about bar program or wine program. Ridiculous management speak that somehow makes the restaurant/management more important than the customer. Look, whatever your "vision" for the "bar program", it's meaningless if the damn bartender is a jerk or doesn't understand how to be hospitable.

Also tired of farm to table being used when it's not true, and when a lengthy description of provenance is used, though said provenance isn't especially impressive. I opened the menu at a NOLA white tablecloth place a couple years ago, and several items of produce were attributed to a river parishes farmer I happen to know. Except his farm lies directly downwind of two gigantic oil refineries, it smells to high heaven at least 20 days a month due to flaring, etc. And diners are paying a premium to eat his produce? Made me laugh....how many of those diners would eat it if they saw the surrounding area? (Not saying there is anything wrong with the produce, just that it is grown in an industrial corridor.)