Writer Kicked Out of Marc Forgione After Chastising Chef

According to a post on Diner's Journal, chef Marc Forgione kicked Times columnist Rob Lieber out of his eponymous restaurant on Saturday after a bizarre altercation in the kitchen. How it goes down: Lieber sits down to dinner with friends and after the bread course hears Forgione berating his waiter. Said waiter delivers an amuse-bouche, heads back to the kitchen, and it happens again:

A few minutes later, the chef was at it again. Fifteen seconds. Another fifteen. And without much forethought, I pushed back my chair and walked through the open doorway of the kitchen...I told the chef that his behavior was making me and others uncomfortable. I let him know that I thought it was mean. And I asked him to cut it out.

Forgione later tells Lieber that he kicked him out not for complaining but for waving him off "as if I was an annoying bug. Someone who acts like that in my restaurant, I would never serve."
· Why I Got Kicked Out of a Restaurant on Saturday Night [Diner's Journal]
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