‘Power Eating’ Leaves Readers Hungry

Let them have their special watering holes--the folks who have to be kowtowed to, gawked at and treated like kings by subservient maitre d’s. The article, a good one, was a guide to restaurants to avoid.

I tried Spago once. They sniffed at our party, looked us up and down and made us wait 45 minutes for a reservation we made a week before.

There are plenty of good restaurants for us, the “normal” people your writers described. I don’t care if the maitre d’ genuflects and calls me by my first, last and middle names. Makes no difference so long as the service and food are what I expect, I don’t have to wait in deference to a power eater, and they don’t sit me next to the kitchen door or to people you can hear 50 feet away.

NORMAN JACOBSON

Los Angeles