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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 11:27 pm
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CheapSk8
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Chicago, IL
Programs: AA Plat, UAL Premier Exec, SPG and HH Gold
Posts: 498
We went to Ruth's Chris on the 22nd and they were handing out the restaurant week menu in all of the menus and the servers were encouraging people to do the restaurant week deal. (It was the only reason we were there, but the people next to us didn't even know about it.)
Service, food choices, food quality all couldn't have been better. We'd never been there before but will definitely be back.

Nick's Fishmarket tonight was a different story. If you were there for restaurant week they made you eat in the bar and grill. Fine, but the music was blaring, the servers were terrible, and the pacing was off. (Shouldn't get appetizer after soup (though one appetizer never even showed up), etc.) Food was fine, but the fish really wasn't outstanding. (Mr. CheapSk8 commented that he'd had the same quality of food at Red Lobster. An exaggeration, but not by much.) Soup was barely room temperature, desert (pie and bread pudding with ice cream on top) were served to our table with only spoons. Table next to us got the same desserts and only got forks.
We even had to ask to be given the restaurant week menu -- despite the fact they left us a voice mail saying we had to confirm the reservation if we wanted to do the restaurant week menu and then, when I called to confirm, they asked twice in the 1 minute conversation whether we wanted the restaurant week deal. Also, just a random pet peeve -- don't hand the bill to Mr. CheapSk8 when I have the credit card out. And once you've taken the credit card from me -- and not Mr. CheapSk8 -- don't return to the table with the credit card, open the bill in front of us to check the name on the card (which is definitely not a name that could possibly be a man's name), and then hand it to Mr. Cheap Sk8.
Needless to say, Nick's is not a restaurant we'll be returning to soon.
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