Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Related to the trip, but not baseball-related
I've managed to answer the question, "Can there possibly be anything at a restaurant more surprisingly highly priced than the $7.00 beers at the Red Star Tavern in Pittsburgh?" And that answer is yes.
I was with a group at a mid-priced Mexican restaurant last night, and during the cocktails-and-chips portion of the evening, someone made the executive decision to order guacamole as a supplement to the salsa. The guacamole order was a bowl of the usual size one gets at a Mexican restaurant; it was fresh and tasty, but since this is California, it's very easy to find fresh and tasty guacamole.
The cost of the bowl of guacamole turned out to be $8.25.
It turned out to be listed on the menu with a price of "as quoted," as if it's, you know, lobster fresh off a plane from Maine. They didn't quote the price to us when we ordered it, only when it showed up on the bill.
(I like the fact that the menu lists what year they started serving every dish, because it's fascinating to see when "new" Mexican foods were introduced -- quesadillas 1969, fajitas 1984, vegetarian enchiladas 1992. But especially when that information is on the web site version of the menu, too, it's not $8.25 worth of guacamole fascinating!)
Levi: The "as quoted" reminds me of the restaurant--was it one of the places where we looked at a menu in Pittsburgh, Jim?--in the midwest that boasted "The freshest fish in the nation!"
I suppose if it were some bottom-feeding river fish, then maybe.
thatbob: Perhaps they meant The Iroquois Nation. Are you certain you weren't on tribal land?
I was with a group at a mid-priced Mexican restaurant last night, and during the cocktails-and-chips portion of the evening, someone made the executive decision to order guacamole as a supplement to the salsa. The guacamole order was a bowl of the usual size one gets at a Mexican restaurant; it was fresh and tasty, but since this is California, it's very easy to find fresh and tasty guacamole.
The cost of the bowl of guacamole turned out to be $8.25.
It turned out to be listed on the menu with a price of "as quoted," as if it's, you know, lobster fresh off a plane from Maine. They didn't quote the price to us when we ordered it, only when it showed up on the bill.
(I like the fact that the menu lists what year they started serving every dish, because it's fascinating to see when "new" Mexican foods were introduced -- quesadillas 1969, fajitas 1984, vegetarian enchiladas 1992. But especially when that information is on the web site version of the menu, too, it's not $8.25 worth of guacamole fascinating!)
Original comments...
Levi: The "as quoted" reminds me of the restaurant--was it one of the places where we looked at a menu in Pittsburgh, Jim?--in the midwest that boasted "The freshest fish in the nation!"
I suppose if it were some bottom-feeding river fish, then maybe.
thatbob: Perhaps they meant The Iroquois Nation. Are you certain you weren't on tribal land?
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