Great review, Pardes! Have you considered not telling them you are a restaurant critic? Apparently the pros wear disguises, etc. I don't know if it's really necessary to take things that seriously -- just a thought!
No, I usually don't tell them. In this case I had already been in the restaurant for some time and was treated royally BEFORE I mentioned it.
I'm hankering for their pan seared rabbit right now.
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we might become." Charles Dubois