Restuarant Rant

I just have to laugh..................

A couple of weekends ago the girls spent the night with friends.  Steve and I used this night to have a date.  We went to P.F. Chang's.  We love that place,  the atmosphere and the food.
I always get the same thing everytime I visit a restuarant.  At P.F. Chang's, I get wok charred beef.  I usually never look at a menu because I always know what I am going to get.
I ordered my usual and the kind waiter said,  "Oh mam, that is no longer on our menu."
I replied with a smile on my face saying,"OF COURSE IT IS NOT!"  Of course it is off the menu because I LOVE it."  I was smiling and joking with him, but I was so frustrated.  I explained to him that everything I love on a menu gets taken off.  He was apologizing and saying it was the manager's favorite dish as well and he hated to see it taken off.  I think the waiter was real scared of me, because when our food came, the server told us that our waiter had given us an extra side dish, on the house.
I ended up ordering Kung Pow chicken and it was great, but I will forever miss the wok charred beef.

Steve and I spent the entire dinner discussing how many menu items had been taken off restuarants menus and how many restuarants I loved have closed down.

It made for a lengthy conversation.

When I was first pregnant with Emily,  I used to order Shang hi shrimp at Market Place Grill.  I claimed that it was my favorite meal EVER in the history of my eating.  We went there every week to get it.  Well, we go in one particular night and it is GONE from the menu......gone forever more.  I talked to the manager and he told me it was not a good seller.  I think I cried.  This was the beginning.

Then there was Belvedeer's.  Best Italian food I have ever had. The atmosphere was wonderful,  The food and service was out of this world good.  I ate there most every week for ten years.  Steve and I drove up one Saturday night and the place was cleaned out...GONE....never to re-open again.  I am still grieving that one.

Also Gloria Jean's coffee let me down.  Their Chocolate Avalanche was THE BEST frozen drink EVER...................the place bit the dust................GONE

Chili's no longer has just normal quesadillas.  They no longer grill their chicken for fajitas or quesadillas.  I am not a fan!  Still go there for the chips and salsa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  LOVE IT!!!!

Olive Garden took my long time favorite off their menu recently.  I used to get this seafood dish that was soooooooooooooooooooo good.  I had ordered it for many years.  Oh the sadness....
A waitress told me it was not a good seller.  Of course it wasn't/

Can you tell I am bitter??????????????

Lesson learned:  If I LOVE an item, it will be GONE.

I guess I have weird taste.

I love the unlovable food.