Nice mistake: a couple in a New York restaurant ordered wine for $ 18, and received it for $ 2 thousand

The couple ordered a bottle of wine for $ 18. But by mistake they were served a bottle of the most expensive wine in the establishment, worth $ 2. The owner of the restaurant told about the unfortunate mistake. The details are shared by the publication Fox News.

A French restaurant in New York City, Balthazar, presented its customers with a bottle of wine for $ 2. It happened by mistake of the staff: the managers of the establishment confused two bottles of decanted red wine.

According to owner Keith McNally, the couple actually ordered the drink for $ 18. He wrote about this on his page in Instagram Wednesday, October 21st.

It all started with the fact that four businessmen ordered a bottle of the "most expensive red wine" in the establishment - Chateau Mouton Rothschild for $ 2.

When the businessmen ordered, the manager poured wine from that bottle into a decanter at the waiter's station.

Around the same time, a young couple ordered a $ 18 bottle of Pinot Noir (the cheapest option for red wine in Balthazar) - and another manager poured the contents of the bottle into an identical decanter.

When the first manager returned, he mistook Pinot Noir for Rothschild and “served cheap wine to the businessmen,” it said.

According to the manager, the businessman who placed the order considered himself an ardent connoisseur of wine. While showing off to the guests, he tasted the cheap wine and then expressed his delight at its "purity," McNally writes.

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Meanwhile, the couple who ordered Pinot Noir were served a $ 2 bottle of wine. “When they took their first sips of what they thought was cheap wine, they jokingly pretended to drink expensive wine,” McNally wrote.

However, the managers soon realized their mistake and called McNally, who hurried from his house to the restaurant.

When he arrived, he said that he was in a difficult situation. “The festive mood of the businessmen was clearly heightened by the wine, which they mistakenly considered the most expensive in the restaurant,” he wrote. - This presented me with a difficult choice: either to admit the manager's mistake, or to let him (the businessman. - Ed.) to continue drinking cheap wine in blissful ignorance. "

He said it would also be "unthinkable at this point" to pick up a $ 2 bottle of wine from a couple who were also enjoying their evening. “I decided to tell both parties the truth,” admitted the restaurateur.

According to him, one of the businessmen suspected that this wine was not Rothschild, while the others "nodded their heads in a forced agreement."

Meanwhile, the couple were "delighted with the restaurant's mistake." Young people told him, they say, "it was like the bank made a mistake in their favor." “The problem is that I made the $ 2 mistake, not the bank,” McNally wrote.

He ended his post with the words: "Thanks to Balthazar, both parties were happy that night, but the couple left happier."

McNally also owns the Balthazar Restaurant in London and the Balthazar Bakery in New Jersey.

He owns, as stated on the restaurateur's Instagram page, the New York restaurants Pastis, Morandi and the Minetta tavern, like.

McNally previously owned two other New York restaurants, Lucky Strike and Augustine, but both have closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.