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The Wrong Way to Eat at The Four Seasons During lunch at The Four Seasons, you sit in the Grille Room. At dinner, you sit in the Pool Room. That’s the rule. So if you aspire to be a person of note among the older class of financiers and the divorcees who court them at The Four Seasons, you’ll follow that rule.  That brings us, as always, to Gilt City, a daily deal site that purports to be in the know. Gilt is offering a deal restricting guests to dinner in the Grille Room and lunch in the Pool Room — the exact opposite of what civilized society requires, the equivalent of dancing alone in a church while everyone else is cocktailing at the wedding reception back home in Greenwich, Connecticut, or wherever else your grandmother’s estate is.  Never mind what dishes the Gilt City deal includes. Food is secondary here. Never mind the potential savings. If you’re going to The Four Seasons to save money — most entrees are over $50 — you’re in the wrong part of town, my friend. But if this is how you roll (and if you are under 40 or work for an internet startup, this is definitely not how you roll) Gilt City is sending you to the wrong part of the restaurant. That’s a bad deal. — Ryan Sutton ————————————————————————————— Much as I love you, Ryan, I’m going to have to disagree here. If you’re going to eat at the Four Seasons, lunch in the Pool Room is the way to do it. For one thing, you get to avoid being a person of note among the older class of financiers and the divorcees who court them at The Four Seasons. And more importantly, you get the full glory of the Mies van der Rohe/Philip Johnson architecture that way. The Pool Room has the huge windows looking out onto the Seagram building forecourt, and is bathed in a beautiful light at lunchtime. At dinner, when it’s dark out, you lose the magic. And the Grill Room is always too dark. — Felix Salmon

The Wrong Way to Eat at The Four Seasons

During lunch at The Four Seasons, you sit in the Grille Room. At dinner, you sit in the Pool Room. That’s the rule. So if you aspire to be a person of note among the older class of financiers and the divorcees who court them at The Four Seasons, you’ll follow that rule. 

That brings us, as always, to Gilt City, a daily deal site that purports to be in the know. Gilt is offering a deal restricting guests to dinner in the Grille Room and lunch in the Pool Room — the exact opposite of what civilized society requires, the equivalent of dancing alone in a church while everyone else is cocktailing at the wedding reception back home in Greenwich, Connecticut, or wherever else your grandmother’s estate is. 

Never mind what dishes the Gilt City deal includes. Food is secondary here. Never mind the potential savings. If you’re going to The Four Seasons to save money — most entrees are over $50 — you’re in the wrong part of town, my friend. But if this is how you roll (and if you are under 40 or work for an internet startup, this is definitely not how you roll) Gilt City is sending you to the wrong part of the restaurant. That’s a bad deal.

— Ryan Sutton

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Much as I love you, Ryan, I’m going to have to disagree here. If you’re going to eat at the Four Seasons, lunch in the Pool Room is the way to do it. For one thing, you get to avoid being a person of note among the older class of financiers and the divorcees who court them at The Four Seasons. And more importantly, you get the full glory of the Mies van der Rohe/Philip Johnson architecture that way. The Pool Room has the huge windows looking out onto the Seagram building forecourt, and is bathed in a beautiful light at lunchtime. At dinner, when it’s dark out, you lose the magic. And the Grill Room is always too dark.

— Felix Salmon

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