Steak Knife embarrassment

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Whilst on holiday the butler and I went to a posh steak house. Once we had ordered, the head waiter chap came to our table with a large wooden box. With a flourish he opened the lid to reveal ten different steak knives. We looked on blankly until he put us out of our misery by asking us to choose by length of blade and weight, the type of knife we desired.
Now I do eat out quite a bit but not come across this before.
Anyone else had their ignorance of cutlery or other restaurant etiquette shown up?

[lady topaz]

PaulHogan said:

Where was that and what was it called? I would LOVE to go there and out-ponce them. You could either decline all their selection on the grounds that none are made in Sheffield/Osaka* or that they don't have any hand folded blades available OR (and even better imo) you could produce your own blade.

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Bit far to go, it was called MJ's in a hotel in Dubai.