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A rant I've been saving
25/7/07 08:46Whenever I go out to a very nice restaurant, I feel so churlish about complaining about any aspect of it-- so I think about saying something, and then the other part of my brain answers, "Oh, poor me, I got really good food on someone else's dime!" -- so I don't say anything.
But it needs to be said.
There should not ever be a television playing when you go to a very nice restaurant.
I'm not talking about generic-family restaurants; I'm talking about places where you can pay $100 for a bottle of wine. At both such places I've been in Raleigh... they've had televisions playing. WHY? Do they expect people to be so bored with their dinner companions that they need something else to do? That's why restaurants give crayons to young children, and if you're going out to a wine bar you are presumably not a young child. Is it because people can't tear themselves away from the sports scores or the stock ticker for half an hour? Get a Blackberry, and leave the rest of us alone.
Okay-- it's probably for people who are waiting for their dates to arrive. But still. Bring a book. I can't be the only person who finds it incredibly annoying to have something flickering at the edge of my field of vision. And when I am out to dinner I would like to pretend that football and American politics do not exist.
But it needs to be said.
There should not ever be a television playing when you go to a very nice restaurant.
I'm not talking about generic-family restaurants; I'm talking about places where you can pay $100 for a bottle of wine. At both such places I've been in Raleigh... they've had televisions playing. WHY? Do they expect people to be so bored with their dinner companions that they need something else to do? That's why restaurants give crayons to young children, and if you're going out to a wine bar you are presumably not a young child. Is it because people can't tear themselves away from the sports scores or the stock ticker for half an hour? Get a Blackberry, and leave the rest of us alone.
Okay-- it's probably for people who are waiting for their dates to arrive. But still. Bring a book. I can't be the only person who finds it incredibly annoying to have something flickering at the edge of my field of vision. And when I am out to dinner I would like to pretend that football and American politics do not exist.