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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (19601)	7/29/2001 11:10:30 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The Bad Dinner Mr. X and I went to a double birthday dinner for some of our friends at a very exclusive and expensive restaurant which had some of the most expensive and most gaggy food I've ever eaten. 110 dollars for dinner and it SUCKED. I am rather pissed off. Nothing tasted like you thought it would. And what cretin thought blue cheese and apricots with potato pancakes would go together? (Shafts Blue Cheese Potato Cakes with Prosciutto and Apricot Vinaigrette 10.25) I mean it's not like they were even potato pancakes- more like molten lumps (2) of liquid blue cheese goo. And the calamari MR. X ordered was giant (not small crisp morsels), and greasy. And there he was breaking his vegetarian rules because he loves calamari and it SUCKED. Ok so then on to dinner. Which sucked as well. I don't even know what dinner was. There were scallops wrapped in bacon- and the scallops weren't done. And they had no taste. There was some sort of giant mess of "potatoe salad" which was little red potatoes, something that looked like peaches, "heirloom tomatoes"(right, with NO flavor, I bet they came from Costco), and a big bunch of champagne grapes- which were good, and were the only thing I ate. I emailed the restaurant and told them about my dinner and mentioned the lovely grapes- but I told them I thought whatever I had paid for the scallops was probably a bit pricey for a bunch of grapes, no matter how delicious. BLECH On to desert. Things had to get better. And I had lots of room. Apricot berry torte(Apricot Almond Torte with light Blackberry Anglaise 5.95). Doesn't that sound like there will be apricots and berries, and that maybe it will taste like almonds? No. I'm sorry. You are wrong. It was a piece of gingerbread cake with a few berries on the side, on a plate painted with blackberry? (who could tell) sauce, and a scoop of grape sorbet (cabernet sorbet- fancy schmancy- it's grape). Sigh Chez Pannisse was SO much better The restaurant's name is ...."Mudd's. Aptly named, imo.