Ever have a weekend where every meal you eat out ends up letting you down? Even places you've been to previously and enjoyed? That was the story of our weekend. I won't name names, but our 3 meals out were utter disappointments!
We decided on seafood for Friday night. I started with a shrimp cocktail appetizer and found a 3 inch black hair in my dish. Then, my salmon dish was strangely presented to me as simply a steamed piece of salmon over spinach. It was literally not seasoned at all. The dish was supposed to have been cooked in, and served with, a flavorful sauce. I informed our waitress that something must have gone wrong (she agreed, obviously) and she returned it to the kitchen. It was brought back with sauce simply poured on top. But, having not been prepared IN the sauce as is the norm for my dish, I was left with a cold, overcooked slab of plain salmon sitting in a pool of sauce. Sigh.
Saturday, we went to lunch at a place of my husband's choosing. Admittedly, not my favorite choice, but I'm easy going and can pretty much find something to eat anywhere. I ordered a sandwich that we assumed from the name and the description would have been along the lines of a Philly Cheese steak but what I was served was something very, very different. There was, maybe, 2 oz of steak on the sandwich, yet I was given 3 (!) tomato core pieces along with my diced tomato topping. I've attached a picture of the sandwich (sans tomato cores).
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Finally, we tried a place for Sunday brunch we hadn't yet been to. I ordered pancakes and was served 1 properly cooked pancake and 1 burned pancake. The burned cake was strategically placed under the correctly cooked cake. I asked the waitress for a replacement because I prefer my pancakes not burned and she had the audacity to tell me that "they use sugar in the batter and it crisps up on the griddle" but that she would still ask the kitchen to replace it. So, was I served 2 different batters then? Because one pancake was just fine. By the time the second pancake arrived, we had long since finished eating and just left it. The pancakes were dense and doughy anyway. I've attached a picture of my 2 pancakes for your viewing pleasure.
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