Fancy NYC Eatery Traumatizes Woman With Fresh Fish Served Hook Still In
Fancy food: it is a funny thing. One person might not understand why another might enjoy eating tortured goose liver or snails, and the other might say, "Mmm, I love these snails and tortured goose liver. More, please!" Aliona Russo, a non-fancy woman, recently sat down for dinner at Manhattan's fancy Villagio on the Park restaurant and was traumatized to find a perfectly fresh fish sitting on her plate. So fresh, in fact, that the hook was still sitting in the little fishy's mouth.
While rarefied eaters might applaud such a rare sight—Bravo, monsieur. This gancio is trés delizioso—Russo went to the hospital and filed a lawsuit. From DNAinfo:
It wasn't until she got the fish out of her mouth that she realized she had been chewing on a metal hook that was about 1.5 inches long with a plastic piece of fishing line still attached to it, Dankner said.
Other guests from the restaurant noticed what had happened and began snapping pictures, according to the complaint.
The hook left Aliona Russo with cuts on her mouth and tongue, and she had to go to an emergency clinic for treatment, Dankner said. But the worst damage was emotional and psychological, the lawyer explained.
"She still freaks out about this," said Dankner, who noted the Russo lived near the restaurant and had frequented it often before the incident.
Russo's suit seeks unspecified damages for her injuries and "psychological trauma," DNAinfo notes. Not everyone is blessed with an understanding of the finer things in life.
