Last night, my husband and I ventured the cold temperature to go to the city for this years Christmas Market. Unfortunately we were left disappointed as our night started out with a very bad dinner in a Mediterranean grill restaurant with a turtle pacing service. For our starter we had to wait 45 minutes and when it finally came, I almost wept because it was pure garbage (I’m sorry, but this is a rant entry, have I warned you already?)
It says in the menu that for Euro11,00 (E1 =$1,66 as of this writing) you’ll get big gambas (shrimps) grilled in olive oil and special sauce. After 45 minutes it finally arrived , and on my dish, I got around 6 tiny pieces (different sizes) of shrimps in tomato sauce and a dab of olive oil. And I’ve also tasted soap in the sauce. Not a tiny squeek from me and my husband. Then another 45 minutes passed by, finally my mix-meat-grill in a skewer arrived and lo and behold, everything was raw! the tiny beef piece was bad smelling and bloody, a piece of pork was bloody (about 2 pieces of each) and loads of red onion pieces in between. This was for Euro 21,00.
My husband and I paid Euro50,00 for a horrible dinner ..already from this amount, my skewer was deducted when the waitress saw I hardly touched it, fortunately she was ashamed of what has happened and offered to deduct the price…hah! if that happened in the US I think she’d lose her head from the client’s bite! But since my husband is the calm type, never will complain…simply paid the waitress and even wished her a pleasant evening.
So can you imagine how expensive to have a lousy dinner in this part of the world.

the restaurant was masked from the outside..it has a lovely window that entices people walking pass it…but inside…
oh by the way, the market was empty :(

grabe astig! pati ako napapatalon
I love octupus! I had








SandyCarlson said
December 15 2007 @ 11:50 am
Thess,
Sorry about that rotten meal! And the market! That photo is outstandin, though. I love masks, and I find this image very engaging. Your story reminds me of the James Joyce short story “Araby.”
Thanks for stopping by this a.m.
manilenya said
December 17 2007 @ 7:00 am
naku bagay na bagay dyan sa place na yan si dandang reynz sis thess…dagdag sa karanasan nya bilang social climber to the max na reyna :)
thess said
December 17 2007 @ 1:32 pm
SANDY: yeah, it was an awful weekend..but ..at least I got this shot ha ha! Oh, what was the story about? I got curious.

MANILENYA: hey Melai! long time no c..thanks for dropping by.
ah bagay nga si Reynz sa mga expensive places..carry nya