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this is a taste of a restaurant here ... we had a rapid5 sponsored dinner yesterday. it seems there was a bet between our CFO and two of our technical directors; i am 'cut and pasting' the e-mail informing us of the dinner. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J and C have a bet with B that we will have a board ready for demo in time for the Board Meeting being held here on July 28th. Since we will be winning this bet, B is taking all of us out to dinner next Wednesday night, 7/26, to the Trail Dust Steak House at 26501 Hwy. 380 about 9 miles east of Denton. Reservation is for 7PM. They will only hold our table for 15 minutes so try to be on time. B will be picking up the tab and the BEST part.............................................J will be cutting B's tie off at the neck!!!!!!! I'd buy my own dinner just to see that!!! Please RSVP to me by Tuesday at noon if you are planning to attend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... so we car pooled to this place yesterday. the restaurant stood right in the middle of no where. it had a way side cabin look. most of it was made of planks, giving it a cow boy shed look. there were cow's horn decorations all over the place. the waitresses / waiters were all cowboy style (hats/jeans/(red)indian shirts). a board hung at the entrance which said "No neckties beyond this point". the interior walls of the restaurant were adorned (or rather filled) by neckties cut out around a feet from the bottom tip of the tie. there were also visiting cards attached to the cut tie (how is that last two words of the sentence for an oxymoron?). one thing that is different in restaurants here from bangalore is that u have to wait to be seated at the entrance (like in pizza hut). u cannot choose your own seat. this means that we end up not being able to get seated in some strategic posistions ( ;-) ). the first thing that 'happens' in restaurants here as soon as one is seated is ordering drinks. pizza hut has brought this culture in india, but though mostly drinks ordered here are ice tea, soft drinks or water (and for me - 'water without ice'), there is a whole lot of drinks here which most people know by-heart. there is no menu from which these are ordered. so never expect to learn. you just miss it. but most of these complex names are hard drinks, so i anyway don't bother about it. the atmosphere in the restaurant was quite more noisy than bangalore restaurants. half way through our food a set of waiters (waitresses) lined up ringing a bell and approached our CFO. he was, ofcourse, wearing a tie. it was publicly announced that ties are not allowed and that they are going to sut it off his neck. he was given the bell to ring during the ceremony. then J asked for the previlege, and produced a special scissor he had brought along for the ceremony. the tie was cut off our CFO's neck and his visiting card was taken from him; probably it would join the group on the walls. ofcourse, the main food on the menu was cow. to my relief i found that chicken and sea food were served too. some people here know what to order in most restaurants, but most people order by pointing out items in the menu to the servers. ofcourse, i am bewildered by most items on the menu and normally choose the safest. this time i chose 'mesquite (not sure of spelling, but it is some sort of wood used for grilling) grilled shrimps served with french fries'. other people around me were having ounces of steak (beef) of the order of 32 ounces, ... My shrimp was quite spicy as were the garlic breads. And it seems some of such restaurants give 96 ounce steaks - free if you can finish it. normally such hi-fi dinners cost $10 per person. indian restaurants have buffets for $7 - $8. Warning: Donot go to an indian restaurant for dinner - u r sure to get the left overs of the buffet served for lunch. 7-28-2000 |
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