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To: HairOfTheDog
Hey, HOTD, we're hobbits too!

Every once in a while we'll try out a "new" place, but there is one restaurant in particular that gets most of our business. The dining snob at my work hates the place (I don't know why - she loves the most expensive and esoteric restaurant in town, though, that's probably why), but the food is excellent (modernized traditional French cuisine, not too nouvelle, always something new and interesting on the menu), the situation is wonderful (intimate little candlelit tables and big glass windows overlooking the river), and the waiters are great - a trifle casual if you like the real French service (I mean the really good kind, not the snobby kind) but enthusiastic and helpful. We have two waiters who usually look after us (depending on whose night off it is), and we usually tip 20 percent, just like you, because they always try and are cheerful, even if it's not their best day.

207 posted on 07/11/2003 6:01:08 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
I love the 'regular' place.... They know that I like my bourbon and coke in a big pint glass, and they bring it when I sit down without asking. They know that I like my steak rare and that I like Horseradish with it even when I don't have prime rib.

Why wreck a good thing? I have to order three drinks at a new place before they get it right.... the first time, it is too strong, because it is in a tub, not a pint.... and the second drink is in a chimney glass because they don't believe me when I say pint, and they usually make it a double because the glass is so big. The third time they usually bring me the right drink but by then I no longer care one way or the other! ;~D
214 posted on 07/11/2003 6:08:32 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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