Per Diem - Financial District

What an unfortunate experience. I will first caveat that the food was edible and our waiter, excellent. I was part of a party of 4 who spent over 100$ per person. About thirty seconds after receiving our last round of drinks - with a dessert that had just arrived to the table, a restaurant employee told us they had a party waiting for our table and we needed to pay our check and leave. Mind you - our drinks were full to the brim as they had just arrived at the table. Though taken aback, we did our best to politely inform her that we had just received our drinks so this wasn’t an appropriate time to be practically kicking us out. Within minutes, a second employee came up to the table and asked if we could at the very least move elsewhere - at this point we were rushing to finish our drinks so we could leave as the experience was ruined. After both occurrences, our waiter apologized and asked us to take our time. At no point when ordering drinks or dessert were we told people were waiting or we should try to hurry along. It felt a bit like a scam to be served full drinks and then immediately be made to feel guilty for being there. Disclaimer: we were seated upstairs so we were unaware people were waiting. There are better restaurants that will take accountability for their overbooking vs put it on customers and perhaps be a bit more polite to some high paying patrons.