Summerteeth
It's been slow blogging lately. Summer is here. That means among other things that every weekend, the first table or two seated will barge in, sit down, mess up the table and then get up and leave because we A: don't have clam chowder, B: don't have burgers/chicken strips for their kids, or C: we're too fancy/too weird/not normal.
Now I will personally admit to being all those things in item C but our restaurant is not. Years ago after one such incident a cook muttered, "Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy. How much more normal can you get?" At this point we don't take it personally, and have mostly given up on trying to convince people to stay. We do see at least part of what we do as education but talking someone into staying somewhere they feel uncomfortable for any reason just depletes our energy and at this time of year we need all we can get.
If we were cooking bass tableside in liquid nitrogen, or insisting people tear up the menu, toss it into a soup bowl, pour broth over it and eat the paper I'd understand. We are so far from being cutting edge it's ridiculous.
But summer it is.
I also have to confess I have a particular antipathy toward the foods of summer, save a few. I have never been a tomato lover. I'm not a tomato loather but I'm not the type to rush out to the garden, pull one off the vine and eat it like an apple. Never been a watermelon fan either.
Actually in writing this I realize it's not so much the foods but the process I'm not fond of. I love green beans, peaches, nectarines, figs, corn, really ripe melons. It's just that it seems pointless to cook anything.
To be continued...
I'm off for a day of meetings, although this time I'm hosting the group so at least I don't have far to go.
Mmm... corn chowder, corn and tomato pasta with feta and italian parsley, sparkling melonade, melon sorbet, melon and bacon salad, grilled figs...
Posted by: jsp | July 21, 2005 at 02:14 PM
Criminy, if they can't handle the fact you ain't got chowder, you sure as hell better not let them in to the bathroom.
Biggles
Posted by: Dr. Biggles | July 22, 2005 at 12:02 PM
No shit Biggles. Or rather in this case I think the saying is I don't give two shits.
Either way you're right. There is progress on the bathrooms however.
Posted by: haddock | July 23, 2005 at 12:45 AM
Progess in the bathrooms. Progress means like good forward motion right? Not that things have just "changed" and gone down some equally as odd road?
How's that gas range coming along?
Posted by: Dr. Biggles | July 26, 2005 at 02:15 PM