Trying to get my feel for my new city and the best way I know how to do such a thing is finding where the good restaurants are. I surf online and read reviews and visit one here and there, but yesterday I went to a long-time local and got the skinny. The local gave me a list of about 10 eateries to check out, so I visited one last night.
I had been craving Italian food and was delighted to find out there was a "good" one just a few miles from where I am currently living. So I forced a buddy to come along and we headed to get some eggplant parm (I have been craving for ages).
We get to the place and first impressions are pretty good. The place looks a lot nicer than all the other places I have been to in the area. We enter the building and find the young hostess. We confirm that there are just two of us and she leads us to a table. I am not a big fan of tables in a mostly empty restaurant so I as for a booth.
The look this girl gave me when I asked for a different seat was priceless. She grabbed the menu's and silverware walked around the corner and literally tossed the items on the table without ever looking back at us or even inquiring if the seating was acceptable. I guess asking for a different seat was equivalent to pissing in her cornflakes.
Instead of getting all angry at this bobble-head we burst out into uncontrollable laughter. It lasted far too long, but thankfully the angry miss would not be handling our food or we would have most definitely been out of there in a hurry!
Our waitress or server or whatever the PC term is came round and she was delightful. We had some beers and ordered calamari. Now, I am a calamari bitch! I have had it in hundreds of places and it is either acceptable or wrong. It was wrong here. The portion was great, but the calamari was greasy and the coating did not stick and it was a bit chewy - lesson learned.
The eggplant also suffered from being a bit greasy. I did love how thinly the slices were but could not get over all the saturation of the grease. The pasta was good, but overall I was not impressed by the joint.
To date I have still not found a go to eatery. You know the place you eat at on a regular basis and the food is always to your satisfaction. In every other city I have stayed in I found one or two within a couple weeks, but not having such luck here. Also, this city is big into deep frying most things and good veggies are hard to come by. Oh well, the search continues!
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