Chloe Fineman’s table for two came with a side of drama.
In a recent TikTok video, the Saturday Night Live star said she was scolded by a “rude” restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with fellow patron Demi Moore and her beloved tiny dog Pilaf.
Recounting the incident alongside her sister Emma, Fineman said the two were having “the best day of our lives” before trying to find a place to eat and reluctantly settling on Sant Ambroeus, an Italian restaurant located in the “food desert known as Madison Avenue.”
Fineman recalled a cordial server leading them to a table right away. “There’s several empty tables and I sit down, and then I look up and it’s Pilaf little mouse, the celebrity dog of Demi Moore,” Fineman said. “And I see Demi Moore and I was like, ‘Oh, hi!’ We’ve met once or twice and I’ve held Pilaf because Pilaf was backstage at an SNL show.”
“She fully said hi back also,” Fineman’s sister added, clarifying that it was not an intrusive interaction.
“The manager sees me,” Fineman continued. “I don’t know, maybe I had no makeup on — did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room of Sant Ambroeus? And the guy’s like, ‘What are you doing here! Ma’am, come, come with me.’ And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It was very confusing.”
Alas, the situation did not improve. “I was like, ‘Calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL.’ He was like, ‘I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same,'” Fineman recalled. “And I was like, ‘You’re being rude,’ and he’s like, ‘You’re being rude!’ Anyway I don’t want to get into details, but lets just say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a Karen [moment]. I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f—.”
The comedian added, “All I did was say hi to Pilaf little mouse.”
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Chloe Fineman on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to Sant Ambroeus and representatives for Moore for comment.
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Fineman, best known for her spot-on celebrity impressions, joined SNL in 2019. She previously called out the bad behavior of Tesla CEO Elon Musk last year, revealing that he made her and other cast members cry when he hosted the show in May 2021.
Moore, meanwhile, is in the midst of a career resurgence and recently earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role in The Substance.
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