Originally Posted by
Cupertino
I once ordered an Americano as an apertivo at a high-end Cleveland resturant, and when the others were brought out their drinks I was brought coffee service.
Similar story...
Took my sister and mother to a new resto that had opened in the Boston area after a solid year of heavy pimping in the local press.
Dinner was a train wreck... Hamburger Helper would have been better on so many levels.
But, the icing on the cake was my mother's Irish Coffee. She orders, and the waitress gives her a puzzled look.
5 minutes later, she returns, with an even more puzzled look on her face. "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but the bartender doesn't know what's in an Irish Coffee. Could you tell me?"
My mom replies, and all appears to be well.
The waitress comes over with a big grin on her face, and a cup and saucer. Indeed, a cup of coffee was filled halfway with coffee, and the rest with booze. It was tepid, flaccid, and basically wrong on every possible level you could screw up such a drink.
Needless to say, I haven't been back.
Cheers,
-Andrew