miami has three types of restaurants:
1. the kind that uses big boobies to attract customers
{such as... ALL of the restaurants on lincoln road}
2. little dives like la sandwicherie and el rey de las fritas that are a bit off the beaten path but worth it.
3. diners where the menus are the size of a four year old.
... and so when my best bribery efforts to get a ride to el rey failed,
saved me from having to endure big boobied hostesses.
the victims, left to right:
sue, mark, brian, me, rob
{five points if you guess which ones are related}
...it was your typical huge diner-y restaurant that apparently all of miami flocks to for sunday brunch,
and it has some quirky menu items,
such as a tv style dinner, complete with sectioned tray,
and various things served in buckets...
like the calamari and shrimp that i tried for the first time
and the calamari i kind of liked
and the shrimp made me want to puke my brains out.
{the men loved em though}
...so then our mains came.
and then about ten minutes later our silverware came.
like what?
rob wonders how he should eat his tuna sammich
brian showcases his lox pizza with caviar
which might as well have been a bagel & lox
too salty for brian's taste
{wimp}
a+ for creativity, i thought it was delightfully mediocre
when i couldn't decide what to get on the 4 foot by 4 foot menu,
mark told me to close my eyes and point at something,
and i got
the big pink hollywood breakfast
polenta fries topped with spinach, bacon, and poached eggs...
covered in cheese sauce
{cheese sauce on the side for me please, for the sake of my poor heart}
and i learned two things:
1. there's a reason polenta fries aren't more popular
2. having to watch your poor food lose heat while a sassy aloof waitress hunts down silverware is more painful than you will ever know.
p.s. what self 'specting restaurant serves nacho cheese?
big pink is located at 157 collins ave in miami
mark told me to close my eyes and point at something,
and i got
the big pink hollywood breakfast
polenta fries topped with spinach, bacon, and poached eggs...
covered in cheese sauce
{cheese sauce on the side for me please, for the sake of my poor heart}
and i learned two things:
1. there's a reason polenta fries aren't more popular
2. having to watch your poor food lose heat while a sassy aloof waitress hunts down silverware is more painful than you will ever know.
p.s. what self 'specting restaurant serves nacho cheese?
anyways.
in the end,
sassy waitresses and the absence of silverware
did not ruin the meal
because
us midwesterners were in the sun,
graced with people we love,
and enthralled in good conversation.
...43 to go...
xoxo
yeh
big pink is located at 157 collins ave in miami