Share a Story, Win $75 Gift Card to your favorite restaurant
We all have had our share of interesting experiences while eating out. Share a fun story about your restaurant experience and enter to win a $75 Gift card. Here’s one for starters:
A few of us (some colleagues were traveling on business) once visited this popular thai restaurant. As we got to the restaurant, we realized that we all had to sit on raised bamboo floor and take our shoes off. Quite a predicament! One of the gals refused to take her shoes off, turns out she hadn’t changed her socks in a few days and was concerned they’d smell. Finally, after much convincing, she agreed to take the socks off as well and sat little farther away from group with her feet spread outward. As we were ready to leave, some one from the adjacent table approached her, chatted for a few mins and handed her his business card. As luck would have it, the guy was a footwear designer and wanted to cast her in a footwear commercial! We all just couldn’t help but giggle and laugh at the whole situation when we found out about it later.
Now that may be an unusual story, but we’re sure some of you have some interesting aspects to share with us. Here are a few themes to trigger your memory :
- Romantic date(s)
- Family parties/get togethers
- Business meals or trips out of town
- Restaurants in your neighborhood that you hadn’t discovered in a decade
- Interesting ordering situations
So, just jot down a few quick comments from your experience in response to this blog and you’re entered to win $75 Gift Card.
We’ll award the gift card to the best story (in our sole determination) posted in the comments to this blog by the end of the day on June 18. Please be sure to include your email address.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Not sure this is interesting, but I had this horrendous experience at Thai Orchid in San Jose. We had ordered a vegetarian yellow curry. A few minutes later my food arrived but it had chicken in it, so I told them I had ordered a vegetarian dish. Quickly, she pulls out the spoon from her pocket and scoops out all the pieces of chicken. I have never gone back there since.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I once dined with my toddler, Clara, and my friend Dana at a fancy restaurant, Rosa Mexicano, in Manhattan. Fearing Clara wouldn’t like Mexican food, I’d bought her a burger en route. As I unwrapped it, the paper wrapper touched the votive on our table and burst into flames, also setting the tablecloth ablaze. I smacked the flames down with my hands, which startled Clara so badly she threw up on me and knocked a bowl of guacamole in my lap. I had to strip in the bathroom and wash my clothes in the sink. Imagine fellow patrons’ surprise to walk in there and see a woman standing in her skivvies! When I got back to the table, Dana said, “You’re lucky I love you because your shirt is green and you smell like baby vomit.” That was quite the evening.
June 15th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
We had a celebration dinner for our son’s MSW graduation. I am very allergic to corn and ordered a dish with flour tortillas. It is important to note that two of the guests at this dinner were a Mexican man and the manager of a Mexican restaurant. Our dinners were served and as I went to take the first tortilla out of the warmer, they both shouted and grabbed my arm “That’s a corn tortilla.” We got the waiter back and explained in very careful Spanish and English that I was violently allergic to corn and must have flour tortillas. After quite a wait, the new tortillas came and my knowledgeable friends inspected the warmer only to find corn tortillas AGAIN! Our Mexican friend went to the kitchen to return the tortillas with the same explanation as before, this time to the cooks. Their response was, but the corn tortillas are better! With much loud persuasion we finally got flour tortillas. I never returned to that restaurant or any other Mexican restaurant again.