Things You Order To Make The Server Say "huh?"
Oct 21, 08, 8:14 am
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Originally Posted by stut
Re eggs - I'm always surprised at how often ordering poached eggs results in a blank stare. It's not that odd, surely?
Oct 21, 08, 8:37 am
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I like anchovies, so when I'm in a place that might have a good Caesar salad, I ask if it has anchovy filets on it. Servers are surprised--and sometimes a little disgusted--that the right answer is, "Yes!"
Oct 21, 08, 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by PVDProf
I like anchovies, so when I'm in a place that might have a good Caesar salad, I ask if it has anchovy filets on it. Servers are surprised--and sometimes a little disgusted--that the right answer is, "Yes!"
Oct 21, 08, 5:37 pm
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Originally Posted by stut
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Re eggs - I'm always surprised at how often ordering poached eggs results in a blank stare. It's not that odd, surely?
Re eggs - I'm always surprised at how often ordering poached eggs results in a blank stare. It's not that odd, surely?
Oct 22, 08, 9:47 am
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Mr. Soames, who's very "British", once asked for some extra tartare sauce for his fish, at a Red Lobster in FL. The young waitress looked at him with a blank stare; then repeated "ta-ta sauce? what's that?"
Another time, at a semi upmarket restaurant in Boston, the daily special was
Braised Lamb shank, which I love. The server asked me, how I'd like it done.
Another time, at a semi upmarket restaurant in Boston, the daily special was
Braised Lamb shank, which I love. The server asked me, how I'd like it done.
Oct 22, 08, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by Soames
Braised Lamb shank, which I love. The server asked me, how I'd like it done.
I'm sorry but if a waiter doesn't know what a poached egg is I don't think they should be working in any job function that involves food, let alone in a restaurant.
Oct 22, 08, 10:47 am
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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike
Both of you are in NYC. Both of you need to go to Chin Chin, if you haven't already. 49th between 2nd and 3rd, right down the street from Waldorf Towers. Three words: grand marnier shrimp.
Oct 22, 08, 10:51 am
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Originally Posted by stevenshev
Like the place, never had the shrimp. Will go soon and try them.
Oct 22, 08, 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by violist
9 times out of 10 I too either get a "huh" at asking for a black and blue steak
or else get something way overcooked that has to go back. At Ruth's in
Indianapolis last week, though, the waiter was so cowed, and so cowed the
kitchen, that I got a steak that was sort of tan and blue and cold on one side.
That was almost right, so I ate it.
or else get something way overcooked that has to go back. At Ruth's in
Indianapolis last week, though, the waiter was so cowed, and so cowed the
kitchen, that I got a steak that was sort of tan and blue and cold on one side.
That was almost right, so I ate it.
New York earlier this year. I definitely approve! My favourite reaction to ordering my steak blue was once in Australia when the waitress's
response was "Yuk! Really?"
They say that the rarer you order your steak, the better the piece will be,
partly becasue the chef knows that you are a true connoissuear, and partly
because you can't disguise any shortcomings with over-cooking.
I'm happy eating good steak raw but it tends to upset one's fellow diners,
also searing the outside does something magical to the flavour.
I would love to be a vegetarian but my mouth is watering just thinking.
about steak.
Oct 22, 08, 4:49 pm
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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.
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
Oct 22, 08, 5:05 pm
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One of my favorite drinks is the calimocho - equal parts cola and red wine with a few ice cubes tossed in. Most people have never heard of it or have any idea, and when I explain it, they usually cringe.
Oct 22, 08, 6:44 pm
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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.
Originally Posted by cstead
One of my favorite drinks is the calimocho - equal parts cola and red wine with a few ice cubes tossed in. Most people have never heard of it or have any idea, and when I explain it, they usually cringe.
But overall, I don't think I order anything that makes waiters go "huh?"
