Omelet wrote:

> <lol> If I am serving some specific dinner guests, I'll happily discuss
> the menu with them (usually via e-mail) prior to their visit, and cook
> according to their wishes.

At what point in that process are you the hostess rather than just a
cook at the home-restaurant they agreed to eat at that night??
Do you let them dictate the entire menu, dining hour, drinks and dessert?