Breakfast: Breakfast: An A and W breakfast
burrito and what appeared to be shredded potatoes (which
demanded lots of
catsup!) and a glass of what might have been "Diet Pepsi" mixed with a bit of "Diet Root Beer" and something else. We could
not tell.
I went there after working out at the Sheridan Center (walking on the track, actually...) and I don't think we'll be going back for breakfast there again...
Lunch: We had our office Christ Mass party and lunch was:
- mashed potatoes,
- turkey,
- dressing,
- gravy,
- two rolls,
- two small pieces of pumpkin pie and
- a bite of cheese cake.
Also, two cans of D.P. I carefully did
not let myself
obsess on my A1C score of:
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Dinner: We went to the , which is the restaurant at the "Dodge House". Kathie had high hopes for this place. After all, some of her co-workers had liked their lunch a week or so before. On the other hand, a friend of ours complained of very poor and very slow service and inferior food. Another couple agree with this negative opinion. We decided to check it out...
Unfortunately, we have to go with the negative opinion...
We arrived about 5:50 pm and entered. We began waiting to be seated. That only took about four minutes.
It was after 6 before we got waited on. We did not order from a waiter; we had to order drinks from the woman who seated us. She had no idea which white wines they had so Kathie order3ed a gin-n-tonic.
About 6:05 pm to 6:10 pm, a waiter arrived and we ordered an onion ring.
About 6:18 pm, "our" waiter finally arrived to take our order. (I say "our" with irony because he was putting his time in on dealing with a large group.) I ordered a 16 oz Prime Rib, done medium, baked potatoe with everything that comes on a baked potatoe, French dressing [on my salad] and more water.
Kathie ordered much the same but with the 14oz Prime Rib.
About 6:35, Kathie commented that the waiter seemed to be "taking the long way around to avoid us" and I think she was right! "Our" waiter seemed to be trying to avoid us.
About 6:42 pm (roughly), we finally got our salads. Then, a couple of minutes later, we got the onion ring. It was quite good.
At 6:50 pm, "our" waiter wondered back over and Kathie askeed "where is our dinner? Have they lost our order?" "Our" waiter said "no".
About 6:50 to 6:55 pm, "our" waiter finally arrived with our dinners. The waiter handed me Kathie's Prime Rib and vice versa. I had to tell him to switch the plates (he still had Kathie's plate on his hand).
The outside rim of my Prime Rib was done and the meat was warm to the touch but the fucking thing was clearly very rare. I was pissed and thought of sending it back. However, I have heard too many stories of potatoes disappearing when the properly cooked steak is properly cooked. Then, too, I was hungry and had eatten most of the Prime Rib by the time "our" waiter came back.
I showed the steak to "our" waiter and said "does this look like rare to you?"
He said "yes".
I replied "well, it's supposed to be medium!"
"Oh."
I do
not recall '"our"
watier offereing to have my steak properly cooked...
We told "our" waiter that we didn't hold this very slow service against him. "Our" waiter
repleid that the main cook was "out sick" and the replacement cook "didn't really know what he was doing". We agree and I bitched to the woman who seated us.
She asked us "did you send it back?"
I replied "no, given how slow the service was, I had no idea how long it would have taken!"
uvula
