Spaghetti Incident

Hahaha… Not like the music album, but we had our own incident for dinner.

We couldn’t really find a good place to eat so we decided on the Macaroni Grill. I don’t know if you are familiar with the restaurant, but they have singing waiters and waitresses. When we walked in, there was a woman singing very loudly in an operatic voice. I have to admit, not my favorite. But kudos to her for the voice and her singing at the restaurant.

Our server, Steve, came and got our order, 2 salads and then we decided to split a spaghetti and meatballs – not hard to screw up, right? Well, I obviously wouldn’t be blogging about it if dinner went well. I’ll digress a bit and mention that our server, had a wonderful singing voice. Very Frank Sinatra-esque.

We received our salads, both ok and not great. Then, before we had really even touched our salads, our spaghetti came. We both nibbled on it a bit, then looked at each other and both said that our pasta AND meatballs were luke-warm to frankly cold. We both couldn’t stomach too much of it, but we also didn’t want our waiter to bother getting us a new serving – we were tired and didn’t want it that badly.

We tried to tell our waiter about the cold pasta a couple of times, but he was busy and kinda flew by us. When we were waiting to flag him down, we looked a couple tables down to this little girl with spaghetti and meatballs, and hers was piping hot – so much so that we could see the steam coming off of it from 2 tables down!

We finally let out waiter know and the management was cool enough to take it off our check but also to come over and apologize and to be really sweet about trying to make it up to us. So although it may not have been the best experience food-wise, the service was excellent – and we tipped accordingly.