After having a pricey but mediocre brunch at Home a year ago, we decided to give it one more try for dinner. Seeing the restaurant half empty, three of us walked in on a Saturday evening to ask about a table. We were asked to wait, then rudely told they had nothing available. We were futher advised that ""This is New York-GET A RESERVATION"". Granted, it was a last minute decision to go out for dinner, and we had spent the afternoon watching football and were not decked out in typical West Village fabulousness, but is wearing a sweatshirt really enough of a reason to assume we were tourists and should be talked to so condescendingly. Then to add insult to injury, after we had already left the seemingly 6' x 12' room they consider a restaurant, the waiter/owner stepped out, called us back, and curiously asked if we liked Italian food. I cautiously replied yes, and he proceeded to tell us about this wonderful Italian joint around the corner that had ""lots of tables with a quick turnover"" and ""lots of great pasta"". Knowing the area for over a decade, the restaurant he was describing was an absolutely awful place--and he new it. Clearly he was not offering a helpful suggestion but instead was knowingly tyring to send us to a bad restaurant. Who needs this kind of treatment? Can't imagine why we would ever go back.
Cons: rude, rude, & rude
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