A West Village restaurateur duped his waitress to eat a very off-menu item — magic mushrooms, court papers allege.
Sofie Rasmussen claims in court papers that Paul Abrahamian, an owner of Sticky’s Finger Joint, tricked her into eating shrooms by telling her it was a new recipe he wanted her to try.
In late 2012, Abrahamian — whose West Eighth Street chicken eatery was featured on Bobby Flay’s show “3 Days to Open” — took Rasmussen, then 19, to the kitchen and had her shut her eyes to taste the dish in front of the entire staff, she said.
“I was expecting chicken,” she recalled to The Post.
Instead, he shoved a handful of hallucinogenic mushrooms in her mouth, then slapped his hand over her lips, the court papers charge.
“It didn’t taste great. I was so confused. I was like, what the f–k is this?” she said.
“Then I realized what it was.”
“I felt weird. I was floating. I really didn’t want to talk to customers. I was being goofy. I was tripping, and I had one or two hours left on my shift,” she said.
That night, she went to see her boyfriend.
“After my shift, I was still feeling weird for an hour or two,” she said.
“I told my boyfriend what happened. He was very upset, of course.”
Rasmussen was too scared to report the incident because Abrahamian had threatened to fire her, says a complaint filed yesterday by her lawyer, David H. Rosenberg.
She quit in December, after three months on the job.
The eatery denied her claims.
“This is a false claim. We are confident we will be vindicated once it goes through the legal system,” said co-owner Jonathan Sherman.
Additional reporting by Kathryn Cusma