I decided to eat Italian last night. Ninth Avenue, just a few blocks away from where I’m staying, has many restaurants and pubs and I picked a restaurant called “44 SW Ristorante”. This was a real, full-service restaurant, not a fast-food joint or a diner. I walked in at exactly 8 o’clock and by 8:25 I had finished my main course. I’d also had a pre-starter (a couple of slices of bread) and an actual starter, and still had a glass of wine to finish. To say I felt rushed would be an understatement. In fact, I think the waiter who cleared away my starter delivered my main course at the same time.
The food itself was generally good – I had a Caesar Salad as a starter, and a chicken main dish with mushrooms, a cream sauce, roast veggies and mash. All of the above was good apart from the mash which was rather soggy, so I left it. One of the waitresses noticed this and asked me if I’d left it because I was full. I told her the real reason, and she said “Yes, I saw that, and I asked the chef ‘what’s wrong with the mash?’ “…. and then she just shrugged her shoulders and wandered away.
I didn’t leave a tip.
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