Thursday, February 15, 2007

DISASTROUS VALENTINE MEAL
Last night Lee had a Stake Presidency meeting so we had dinner reservations at 8:15 pm. We have a restaurant at our local (small, 1 gate) airport that we go to sometimes when it's a last minute thing. It's owned by two couples who went to school with Chris (The Lakey boys, one married Mandy Cherney). We try to support them occassionally even though the food is just "okay". We got there and were seated only to have Mandy ask if we minded being moved to a smaller table about 15 minutes later. No problem. We ordered filets and beer batter prawns. Our salads and bread came and they were good. We waited for our meal to arrive. And waited and waited. An hour later, still no dinner. It got pretty comical as we listened to everyone around us complaining. We kept joking about it and laughing at the absurdity of this small restaurant being so ill prepared. Our waiter even mentioned that we seemed to be having a great time, not knowing that we were laughing at them. Finally, dinner came almost an hour and a half later. Filets were overcooked, marsala sauce on them horrible, mushrooms almost non-exixtent and prawns were not beer battered but in some sickly orange water sauce. But hey, because of the wait, dessert was on them. We took home our carrot cake (didn't want to wait longer) and Lee had some last night and said it matched the meal. Needless to say, the Silver Lining won't see us for another Valentine's meal but at least we didn't feel like we had completely wasted $70 since we like the couples and could at least support them in their venture. If only they would get more cooks..... We did have a wonderful meal of salmon and yellow fin tuna last Friday at Jambalaya in Arcata-a great restuarant!! Next year we'll go there.

5 comments:

Alex and Mitch said...

way to be positive about the whole things and just laugh it off!!

Lindsey said...

I was laughing! yes, i'm impressed that you just laughed it off and had a good time anyway. way to go!

Pam said...

The amazing thing is that dad laughed it off!!!

Kasey said...

Wow! That is unbelievable. Dad told me this story on the phone last night. I really cannot believe you guys sat there politely awaiting your meal for an hour and a half! And then to have to spend $70on horrible food! You guys are amazing to have such good attitudes throughout the whole thing. I am very impressed!

Sarie said...

so hilarious! I had a salad there once while waiting for a flight, it was ok, we had a voucher so I didn't have to pay for it anyway. Funny story.