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Post by busy on Sept 17, 2019 0:12:52 GMT
Yes. I deleted my post when I read that but she told us entirely not homemade so I didn’t know who to believe. It sounds like your server may not have been the best server around.
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paigepea
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Post by paigepea on Sept 17, 2019 0:12:57 GMT
I haven’t made it through all of the comments yet and I can’t come back until later. I just want to say that I love reading the comments. Thanks for the interest.
No Dh isn’t writing a review. He is laughing about it with coworkers. I do live in a foodie city. We are at foodie restaurants all of the time. Most accommodate. Some don’t. This one is far from the best and isn’t at all fancy. It’s a lower end version of a sister restaurant. It wasn’t my dinner choice. It is far from fancy. The woman did say condiments weren’t homemade. And it was far from the best veggie burger I’ve had in our city - and we have tons of veg restaurants with tons of great veg burgers.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Sept 17, 2019 1:55:00 GMT
At my clothing store we have a “make it right” policy for customers when they get mad. That way we don’t lose them as a customer. The way diet has changed like keto, gluten free, dairy free...etc I don’t think those restaurants who have standards about recipes will last much longer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I ate at three different restaurants last week that had some variation of "substitutions or changes politely declined" on the menu. They also clearly marked gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan dishes. I eat GF and was just fine. I go to fine dining restaurants so I can enjoy creative, delicious dishes that come from the mind of talented chefs, that I wouldn't/couldn't prepare at home. If I want something to my exact specifications, I'll either make it myself or go to a different kind of restaurant. What's the point in paying a premium for a good chef when what you want is a short-order cook? ETA: Fine dining wasn't the right term to use here. Last week, I was traveling on business and it was all fine dining, because client meals. But usually, we go to chef-driven restaurants at home that are delicious and creative but more casual than fine dining. It's the PNW. We're not into dressing up. But the same kind of "rules" apply at those establishments. They are very serious about their flavor profiles, presentation and limit/disallow changes. Yesterday at dinner my daughter wanted something but it had cheese on it and she said the menu said no substitutions. And my coworker said that just means that you can’t swap out the cheese for something else instead, that leaving the cheese out was fine. (She’s lactose intolerant) I guess I’m not a foodie because I don’t understand restaurants that would have standards where you have to leave recipes alone. Then again I haven’t ever been to a classy restaurant I guess. It reminds me though of the Seinfeld episode: The Soup Natzi - “No soup for you!” 😂
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Sept 17, 2019 1:58:39 GMT
I don’t think no mustard on a burger is dictating the dish. To be fair, taking a hamburger and removing the bun and three of the condiments is fundamentally changing it. If I order a turkey sandwich with no bread and start removing condiments... Eventually I’m not eating a sandwich anymore, I’m eating sliced turkey. My family owns a restaurant. We are known for our burgers... we’ve won many awards for them over the years, and even had an article written for USA Today describing ours as the best burger in our state. Our burgers come dressed. And they come dressed the way we recommend them... how we think they are best. If you order our Blue Burger without blue cheese, I’m gonna side eye you a little, because there are plenty of other options to choose from. Don’t like mustard? Great, we’ve got 7 burgers without it... why not try one of those instead? I would take a Blue Burger if the cheese is goat cheese. I can’t have cow cheese because it clogs up my sinus area.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Sept 17, 2019 3:01:31 GMT
Regardless how it defines itself, I don't view a restaurant that considers ketchup, mayo, & mustard must haves as "foodie." If the server/chef was willing to omit an ingredient for your husband, it seems unreasonable the same courtesy of altering a menu item wasn't extended to you. While I never waste my time leaving a review, I certainly would let others know by word of mouth about my experience there.
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Post by pierkiss on Sept 17, 2019 11:00:18 GMT
The bun thing is meh. You can pull a burger off a bun. If they want to serve it to you after you’ve told them you’re not going to eat it, whatever, it’s their product to waste.
The ketchup, mustard, and mayo would piss me off. Esp the mayo. That’s gross. Mayo doesn’t belong on hamburgers. It just doesn’t. (I have food rules). How hard is it to refrain from squeezing condiments out of a bottle onto a burger? It’s not hard at all. They can make a hamburger naked at McDonalds, so I’m positive that this chef could have gotten over himself and held off the condiments.
I have no doubt that the chef has designed his meals to taste a certain way. That all the ingredients were chosen to blend together to create some specific tastes in one’s mouth. But. He clearly made an exception for food allergies. So it could be done. And people wonder why other people lie about food allergies at restaurants. This is why. Because their preferences/food rules won’t be taken seriously unless they pretend like they could actually die from it. It’s not like you told them you wanted a specific fish fish, and then asked to have smoked salmon instead of Chilean sea bass. It’s condiments!
I would probably be as irritated as your husband is, and wouldn’t want to go back either.
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