text: Went here with some friends.  The service was alright, but not 5 stars as I saw the waiters hanging out talking.  Everyone else including the hosts acted classy and to the caliber expected of the restaurant.  The people who pour the drinks take great care in even testing what they pour.  They are extremely knowledgeable and honest outside our waiter. The waiter basically made up answers when asking him a question.\n\n1. Asked about Absinthe and if the Absinthe sold is the type that gives you hallucinations (made with wormwood has Thujone as the active ingredient).\nWaiter replies. \" NO government all around the world would ever allow any drugs like that to be sold to anyone.\" I reply \"Salvia\".  Weird awkward silence.\n\nThen he goes on a rant how wormwood isn't an active ingredient for that and he's smoked tons of it with no effect...  I don't expect waiters to know the chemistry of smoking something rather than brewing something, but for a $20 glass of absinthe it makes Sage look like it's joke when it's suppose to be a classy place.\n\n We do not allow the chemical Thujone from the woodworm brewing method to be included in Absinthe sold in the United States. Strictly for the reason of the effects it has on the body.  For him to say all the absinthe at Sage was brewed the exact same way as it was 100 years ago is ridiculous, unless they are breaking the law.\n\n2. We asked the water guy what type of tea it is they serve.  He brought out the actual can as he wasn't too sure.  Super helpful super friendly. \nSo we ask the same waiter.  He say's \"Well it's a secret blend that only sales to exclusive rock star hotels like us\".  As he's saying that I'm looking up the exact same can of tea on my phone.  My friend ordered it after leaving the restaurant.\n\nThe food now.  It is good, but not like the other upscale dinning I've had around the world.  Only thing world class is the duck Foie Gras. The idiot waiter is almost offensive.\n\nI would come again if they go through a purge of the stupid waiters, and the food price matched the quality.