Nisha M.
Yelp
I was really disappointed by how two-faced they were.
Here's the context: My friend and I had full meals with a couple drinks. We explicitly told the employees that my friend was driving, NOT me. We repeated that after the 2nd drink order, so they definitely knew.
Regardless, they cut ME off (not my friend, who didn't want any more because she was driving) after 2 drinks. I'm from NYC and relatively the drinks here are not so strong, so I was a little disappointed. No big deal but my issue was they acted totally normal after they cut ME off (knowing that my friend, who was driving, had 1 drink + a couple sips of another that I finished, over the span of HOURS). However, after we left, they called the cops (!!!) to pull us over on the road. The policeman verified that they were the ones who called.
My friend, who had literally barely over 1 drink more than 1.5 hours before we even left, just explained everything to the policeman and was fine because she was obviously sober by that point.
But here's my issue: If this establishment had an issue with her driving, then why wouldn't they say something BEFORE we left? If they were really that concerned then why wouldn't they talk to us transparently before we got in a car?
And why would they extrapolate MY drinking? A passenger's intake has nothing to do with the driver's. And if they had evaluated my behavior they would have seen that I was tipsy at most. Instead they just assumed based on me having 2-ish drinks (which can affect people different ways).
Being concerned about drunk driving is great, but this was NOT the way to handle it. The worst part is they were friendly to our faces but then called the cops and were very deceptive:
They even had the front desk guy pretend that he was into cars--asking what kind of car we were driving (once the cop stopped us we realized the front desk guy literally lied to us by saying he was "into cars," pretending to just be friendly so he could describe our car to the cops). Obviously they don't care about transparency, honesty, or communication. A shame, considering that otherwise this neighborhood is fantastic.
I would recommend another company for the iceberg tours. They don't think logically or critically at this company. If we had been wasted, it would be another story, but 2 drinks for the passenger and less than 2 for the driver over a long period of time? Ridiculous.