Not sure which forum to post this on..but last night just experienced something surreal and unusual. We're currently vacationing in Rome, last night we went to La Pergola for dinner. Its the only 3* Michelin restaurant in Rome and its inside the Rome Cavalieri.

The couple sitting in the next table, through out the entire meal, they were having a DYKWIA attitude. Returning dishes, scorning at the waiters, and in general being very demanding. So far nothing too unusual, as I guess they are either frequent guests of this restaurant or they are indeed a VIP, as the waiters and maitre'd/manager would constantly come over and ask them if everything was ok.

What was unreal was towards the latter part of dinner, the female diner, who was dolled up to the T, wearing a LV scarf, carrying a Chanel purse, blink blinks to the max. She took out a smallish hardpaper bag that you get from shopping at a relatively higher end store, and proceed to put one of the dinner rolls into the bag. She tried not to make it too obvious, by checking to see if anyone was watching before 'stealing' the bread. Like seriously?

BTW - La Pergola was very good, the food was excellent, especially the desserts. Wow, doing their tasting menu, what they give you for dessert is overwhelming. However, I am not sure if the service would dictate that its a 3* restaurant. Nothing really too bad, but they didn't really offer up or explain the wine offerings, until we asked them, also they were talking pretty louder amongst themselves. They're definitely not up to the same level as the french restaurants.