Question for gay/lesbian restaurant patrons

[Pale Blue Dot]

I took my wife out to dinner the other night. We ordered a bottle of wine, and the restaurant followed the traditional (IMHO, antiquated) practice of pouring a bit of the wine for the man (me), so that I could check it. (As an aside, just once I'd love to spit it out across the table, and then say "It's fine!") Anyway, she and I both got to wondering what expensive restaurants do when a gay or lesbian couple orders a bottle of wine - how do they decide who gets to test the wine? Or do they give a sip to both?

Have any gay or lesbian couples had any experience with this?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. Ive ordered wine when I was out with a male friend too....

they usually ask the person who orders the wine to taste.

also, if im out with my mom and she orders, she tastes, or if I order, I taste...

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. Ahh... that makes sense.

When we go out, I don't allow my wife to speak, so naturally I would be the one to try the wine. :D

(Just kidding, of course.)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

7. lol!

:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Boy...she's really moved up in the world...

:rofl: :hi:

[crispini]

2. They ask who-ever orders the wine to taste.

I go out with my mom all the time, sometimes it's me, sometimes it's her. :D

[Pale Blue Dot]

6. I guess I've always ordered the wine

so I assumed it was a sexist thing. Now I feel like a dolt. :crazy:

[Lex]

3. Two women friends can order a bottle of wine and not be a couple.

The person ordering the wine, regardless of their sleeping arrangements, should be the one to taste the wine.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Thank you.

n/t

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. So 2 people can go out to dinner and not expect sex afterwards?

I've put out way too often. :P

You're right, of course. I was thinking too narrowly.

[Fran Kubelik]

9. Ha!

:rofl:

[idgiehkt]

12. lol

:rofl:

you are cracking me up in this thread...sarah is a lucky lady.

[xchrom]

10. it's supposed to be presented to the person who ordered it today.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. frequently its me. mostly because i order the wine.

[Deja Q]

13. Dunno. Never been a couple with one.

:D

[Scooter24]

14. When I have dinner with my boyfriend,

we usually decide on a bottle together and the waiter will present the glass to both of us.

Protocol would say that it's presented to the one who orders it.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. The taste

is offered to the person who ordered the wine.

[Jamastiene]

17. Hmm, where I eat, they don't do that.

They say, "Do you want fries with that?" Or if it's a "fancy" restaurant, the waitress will say, "You want that large or extra large?" :evilgrin:

I would hope if I ever went to a place that served such delicacies as wine and all that other fancy stuff like that, that they would let me decide for myself if I like the taste.

[GoneOffShore]

18. It's an easy call

Whoever orders the wine gets to taste the wine.

The practice is not antiquated, because there are a small percentage of bottles that are corked (e.g. bad because the wine has reacted with the cork). With the advent of plastic "corks" and the increasing use of screw tops, this will eventually disappear.