I'll have what he's wearing
A short article in the front of January's SF Magazine lists all the restaurants who are keeping their waiters looking smart in custom designer suits:- Gary Danko outfits staff in suits from Josef Duran of San Leandro
- Bong Su buys silk tuxedo jackets and Vietnamese ao dai from Calvin Tran of New York
- Quince recently bought his- and her- russet-brown suits from R. Scott French of New York
- Lark Creek Steak buys black-and-gray striped dress shirts from Berkeley's Erica Tanov
At first I thought this was an effort to treat the staff well and have them embody the food -- clothes that are attractive, local and custom.
Then I took a look at the menu for Lark Creek Steak (PDF) and found they are actually selling the uniforms on page one of the menu, under a little clothes-hanger icon:
our uniforms, by award-winning designer
erica tanov, are available for purchase.
$69 blouses - $79 shirts
Just don't accidentally wear the uniform the next time you dine at Lark Creek Steak. Awk-ward.
Labels: Gary Danko is into eunuchs, restaurants
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OMG, that would be awkward. Last year, I dined at the Fifth Floor's bar. I was wearing what I thought was a fetching outfit: a white Calvin Klein shirt, black trousers, and a beautiful black cashmere sweatervest by Marc Jacobs. To my dismay, the bartenders were wearing the exact same shirt, also paired with a vest.
I haven't worn black and white to a restaurant since.
Ha! The thing is, it sounds like a styling outfit, pity it turned out that way. If a manager had asked you to stop slacking off at the bar, that would have been a better story though ;->
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