NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:19:53 CDT Xref: alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:3581 Dumping ice in urinals is an old Chicago bar tradition, been going on for as long as I can remember (50+years). I think it has something to do with flies. Anyway, at times it can be fun. B.H. Greg W. wrote: > Someone wrote: > > >Greg W. wrote: > >> > >> Ob.chi.eats: I ate at Leona's in Hyde Park today. It sucked. > > > >i was wondering how this was. is it worse than other leona's? some > >people would consider leona's bland but not too bad. > > First the food: I had meat lasagna with psychedelic salad. Not > sure what's so psychedelic about a vegetable salad, but the name > does fit with the strained attempts at cleverness that is the menu. > Anyhow, it was fine, nothing was wilted or soggy. The lasagna, > though, tasted like the sauce came from a can, with a bitter > aftertaste of all things. The only meat I could discern was > a few lumps of school-cafeteria-grade ground beef. It wasn't > inedible, but it wasn't at all enjoyable, either. > > Food-related: my friend ordered a cappuccino, and asked for > skim milk, but discovered this wasn't possible because the > machine has pre-made something-or-other or the milk is tubed > in directly from a cow or I'm not sure exactly what the excuse > was... but it seemed rather strange that no one could control > the type of milk! > > Second, the men's restroom: someone dumped a big bag of ice > in the urinal, I assume this being someone in the kitchen and > not an act of vandalism; the restroom was cluttered with trash > in a way that made it look like no one on the staff had checked > it for hours; and the usual no paper towels in the dispenser, > just a pile on top of the counter, and no tp in its dispenser > either, just two rolls on the back of the toilet. These are > not terrible things but in comparable restaurants I usually > don't see such untidy restrooms. Call me anal, that's fine. > > Third, the draft: about half way through the meal I noticed > it was pretty drafty, as if people were holding both front > doors open. By the end it had stopped, and when we got up > to leave we found out we couldn't go out through the front -- > it turns out one of the front doors was broken. Why they > didn't close off the front much earlier is beyond me -- anyone > paying attention would have noticed how cold it was in there. > Seems that whoever was in charge at the time wasn't thinking. > > The potty & the draft really weren't so bad as the food. All > I care is if I'm spending ten bucks on lasagna that I want it > to taste good. > > One good thing: our waitress was excellent. > > -- > "PLEASE DON'T BANG THE WIEGHTS." -- sign in Frank McQ's gym
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