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Island | Report | 30 May 2016 20:04 |
In that case JoyBoro, you're very welcome at my birthday bash LOL ;-) :-D |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 30 May 2016 19:51 |
I would of sat at the table drinking my Diet Pepsi |
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JoyLouise | Report | 30 May 2016 18:36 |
Scozz, perhaps the birthday girl walked past you because you had propped up the bar all night rather than sitting with them. |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 30 May 2016 18:20 |
I would have asked for a salad, omelette, or something simple that I could eat. If this wasn't possible I would stay at the table and make sure I was part of the conversation. I wouldn't have left my husband there on his own to celebrate with the friends as I don't think this would have been polite or fair on him. I also think that leaving the table would make more of a fuss of the situation. |
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MargaretM | Report | 30 May 2016 12:35 |
I find it hard to believe that there was absolutely nothing on the menu that you could eat. A bowl of soup? Small salad with no dressing? Even just a bread bun. I think that you should have sat at the table with your friends and made conversation even if you just played with the food. I think it was in very poor taste for you to sit at the bar alone |
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Island | Report | 30 May 2016 12:13 |
Birthday or no birthday, if I knew there was nothing on the menu that I could eat I wouldn't have gone. Turning up late with a bunch of flowers and a little white lie for the birthday girl might have been a saving face all round option but hey, too late now lol. I wouldn't have gone along and sat at the bar away from the party. |
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Janet | Report | 30 May 2016 11:58 |
I have had a fad about food all my life, not an allergy or anything serious, but I hate not knowing what food I am about to eat. I won't queue at a carvery because it reminds me of school dinners, which made me cry ( at night when I went to bed) as a child because I hated them so much. I had to start school dinners again when went to high school. The next five years I swirled the gravy around the plate to give the impression I had finished my meal. So what would I have done.? At my best friends wedding I ate the prawn cocktail, but I couldn't queue at the carvery for the rest of the meal, so I simply said I felt unwell. In later years I was invited to a meal by a lovely man who was really looking forward to our evening but the thought of this restaurant, yet another carvery, upset me to the point I had to say I would have to change the venue. I went with some new friends about six months ago and simply sat with a drink and made a good excuse whilst they ate and I joined in the conversation. We all had a good night. If an invitation was sent to me and I didn't like the restaurant, or anywhere where I would have to justify why I didn't want to eat, I would say that I was pleased to receive the invite but say I was really sorry that I was already going out and could we meet up as soon as possible to catch up on how their evening went. |
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supercrutch | Report | 30 May 2016 11:13 |
Well I hope you have rated them on Trip Advisor.. I always do... good or bad. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 30 May 2016 08:23 |
When we were told during the week that a booking had been made for 20+ people, we reminded the birthday girl & her husband that I usually have a problem with that restuarant. I said I would check out the menu on Friday night. She said .. no problem. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 30 May 2016 06:56 |
I think your behaviour was not totally appropriate and I can well sympathise with the attitude of the host. I would have felt a bit peeved if someone I had invited to share a meal with me chose to sit at the bar instead. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 30 May 2016 05:50 |
I should have said.......... there were twenty+ people in our group, two tables of 10 or 12. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 30 May 2016 03:36 |
I would have sat at the table with them even if I only pushed a bit of lettuce around the plate and went home hungry. It was a birthday meal and I think not sitting with the group put them in a difficult position. They may have rushed their meal a bit because of knowing you were on your own at the bar and it must have made conversation with your OH a bit awkward. |
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Persephone | Report | 30 May 2016 01:16 |
I would have sat down and not eaten, because I am there to be with friends. I have done this very thing.. we were meeting a couple of friends for lunch along the coast of our South Island.. they were coming up from Invercargill and we were going down from Dunedin.. the setting was lovely but as we were traveling down I started feeling queasy and I got worse as we drove down.. and hey it was my idea originally that we meet up. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 30 May 2016 00:44 |
I didn't leave the table.... I never sat down! |
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supercrutch | Report | 29 May 2016 22:55 |
I am going to defend restaurants in general. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 29 May 2016 21:30 |
LS ... |
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StrayKitten | Report | 29 May 2016 21:21 |
I would have declined food but enjoyed the company who did eat, while staying at the table, |
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JoonieCloonie | Report | 29 May 2016 20:49 |
I appear to be in a tiny minority, but to me, leaving the table at a birthday celebration and sitting alone at the bar for the whole meal really is very rude. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 29 May 2016 12:07 |
LadyScozz, further to AnninGlos's recommendation to contact the owner, yu could show them this: |
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JoyLouise | Report | 29 May 2016 12:04 |
Scozz, I am really surprised that the chef could not knock you up a salad or a plate of vegies at the very least. |