January 26, 2006 1:38 PM

Anything I don't have to personally do is easy
Posted by Jason Butlerat 1:38 PM

The New York Times food critic spends a week waiting tables at Cambridge's East Coast Grill. Wackiness ensues.

[The customers' behavior] supported an observation that Dave made about restaurants being an unflattering prism for human behavior.

"People are hungry, and then they're drinking," he noted. "Two of the worst states that people can be in."

I recall a young woman at a six-top who bounced in her seat as she said, in a loud singsong voice: "Where's our sangria? Where's our sangria?" Her sangria was on the way, although she didn't seem to need it, and the bouncing wasn't going to make it come any faster.

Ah, Cambridge. I miss you so.