We came with a party of 6 and left after over an hour of waiting with reservations. The maître'd was perhaps the most obnoxious person I've ever experienced on this planet. Even with the reservations, we were told that we could expect to wait about a half hour. When our buzzer rang 20 minutes later that maître'd angrily told us that it had only been 20 minutes and that our signal had certainly not gone off or went off in error.
I hang with a pretty yuppie crowd back home and I'm typically prepared for dealing with the posh and pretentious crowd that frequents Tao and places like it. What I was not prepared for was dining in a night club with staff that was even more pretentious than its already pretentious clientele (and I fairly count myself amongst them).
Tone down the music and fire half the staff (our cocktail waitress was great), and I think Tao would be something special. As it stands, the maître'd spoiled my dinner long before it had arrived.