Whether or not you know I belong to a Scottish Country Dance group, we meet on Monday evenings, and have quite a healthy social life. On Saturday we were celebrating Burns night though it was on Tuesday. I booked a local restaurant for 7 of us., time 7 for 7.30pm.
We all arrived in good time and ordered drinks and sat at our table, two had starters , we gave our orders and settled down for a good natter, and waited, and waited, and waited, then Veronica mentioned we'd been waiting for our meal for3/4 hour. !, Liz summoned a passing waitress, who said she would see what the hold-up was. and we waited another 20 minutes. big sighs all round, as I had organised the evening I went to look for the manager. He was advised, politely, of our displeasure. About 5 mins later our meals started to arrive, it was almost 9 pm by now. Veronica cut into her steak, and yeeuk she said, it's COOKED! I asked for it very rare, oh, oh, called up the waitress again, who took away the offending meat, and 5 mins later brought a new meal and stood there while it was cut and approved, it was OK. good, but, Margaret mentioned quietly that her chips were not too hot. oh dear, but she declined a complaint thankfully.
The young waitress came over with the bill and we were surprised and pleased to see we had been credited £70 yeah!, which was very generous.
Desserts were ordered, I ordered a huge Ice cream with raspberry sauce and meringue, and four others ordered various sweets. All in all the bill came to £27.34 for seven of us. not bad , we made it up to £35 to give the waitress a good tip and paid the rest , So not a bad evening, A good meal with three hours good company for a fiver, can't be bad.
The only downside..............I'd ordered beef and ale pie with mash and veg, plus the huge ice cream so late at night, I had a bit of an uncomfortable night trying to sleep. but I'm not complaining. That's it for now folks.
It made me hungry just reading about it, and it's almost time to fix dinner here.
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ReplyDeleteWow! That meal sounds good, especially your dessert. Meringue on ice cream, that is something I have never heard of before. I would like it though.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jenny loved it, I am off to bed now 10.30 pm here I will be back tomorrow to pass it on, And yes Beth it was a super meal, on boiled eggs for two days to lose the calories. lol
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Sure sounds like a fine meal after all that happened. I love ice cream, but never had meringue on top and I like it on pie.
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Sounds like a good night out after all that waiting , so delicious . I love to have meals out with the girls , such a laugh. Every Monday night something to look forward to Arlene. Hugs Sheila xx
ReplyDeleteYes I do look forward to my Mondays
ReplyDeleteGr Gran I take it you mean 'apple pie' I wouldn't fancy ice cream on a steak and ale or any meat pie. lol
If there's one thing that really burns me up when I'm in a restaurant is waiting too long from my order to arrive, especially if it's not right when it finally does. Glad you had a good night out!
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