Nonetheless I reserve great respect for sticklers like the head waiter at the Taj Mahal in Mumbai, who refused to let standards slip during the terrorist siege in November 2008. As one guest-hostage who had been holed up in the restaurant while explosions shook the building later reported. 'Come 5 a.m. we were confident the police were going to get us out, so I marched over to the bar and found a bottle of vintage Cristal, opened it and began pouring. Then the head waiter came rushing across and said, "No, no, you can't do that!" And I said, "Well, we're going to!" and he said, "No, sir, those are the wrong type of glasses." ' Quite so.
V. Moore, How to drink (2009), 48
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