Sunday, November 13, 2022

restaurant woes..

 Lately, I've had lunch at the Bradley several times, partly because it's an easy after church walk from our church parking lot, and partly because it has really good food.  Today I took my daughter there for a belated birthday lunch.  She had never been before, and I was anxious to go to make up for an earlier goof (mine not theirs).  Alas, I was destined to be disappointed.  A couple of weeks ago I had lunch there and ordered a pasta and mushroom dish that I had never tried before.  It was delicious, and because it was a large plate of pasta I requested a box to take some home.  I received the box, boxed my food, paid my bill, and, you guessed it, walked off without my food.  By the way, this wasn't a senior moment.  I've walked off without boxed food before, and I bet you have too.  Anyway, I didn't realize my goof until it was much too late to go back and retrieve my leftovers.  So today I planed to order the same dish, to see if it was as good as I remembered, and hopefully take some home.  I ordered the dish, it was on the menu, only to be told by our pleasant waitperson, that they were no longer serving that dish. Someone in their kitchen had decided that it wasn't popular enough, so they had substituted another dish.  My daughter said that this happened because I left my carry-out behind and they assumed that was because it wasn't good enough to take home.  I don't think so.  Our waitperson assured me that the new dish with gnocchi (little potato puffs instead of pasta) was delicious and they could add mushrooms, so I ordered it.  It was good, but it was so different from what I had been looking forward to that I didn't appreciate it as much as I should have. The good side of this is that I have a habit of ordering a favorite food at any given restaurant, and ordering the same thing every time I go to that restaurant.  That pasta dish might have become my go to favorite but now I'll have to try something else.  Unless I go back to their breakfast menu.  Their cornmeal waffles are delicious.  

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