After gumbo and beer, customer leaves a $2,000 tip at a D.C. restaurant

He is known as a regular who favors the gumbo and a beer at Blue 44, a restaurant in upper Northwest Washington. And he’s a good, generous tipper.

But the owner, bartender and chef at the restaurant on Connecticut Avenue said they were shocked when the patron left a really, really big tip — $2,000 on a $93 bill.

Christofer Nardelli, owner of the four-year-old restaurant, said the man left the tip Monday evening after he and a friend ate fried chicken, gumbo and the patron’s favorite brew — Old Chub Scotch Ale.

And then they left.

It wasn’t until the pair were long gone that the bartender — Laura Dally — noticed something unusual.
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