Tuesday, Taco Tuesday and I'm headed off to the Cantina for a lazy snack.
They pride themselves on their fashionability, with their fancy servers (fashionable) and the sidewalk stamped with "Agave" leaves where you're supposed to line up to be seated.
There are a couple of people ahead of me in line, the server is busy running inside-out to the patio, inside, look through the window, the restaurant is empty. Outside, the patio about half full.
Wait. Wait. They subscribe to the "Make people wait" philosophy, like what you get at fashionable nightclubs where there's always a line even when the nightclub is empty...
After a time the man first in line, judging by his accent and demeanor a British Twat on vacation, starts berating the server...
"How long do we have to wait here...????"
The server is apologetic, not her department, she'll grab the hostess inside...
And then walks off.
Next time she crosses to the patio he's had it, gives her a piece of his mind, and - while I dispute his delivery, his means of telling her, which is just rude, he's right.
They walk off, and I give up. Inside the restaurant is still empty.
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9:30 PM AM and I'm still hungry. I walk down to try again at the Cantina.
Inside, empty, more staff than customers. Hostess, server, numerous cooks. Outside, patio, waiter crossing again, 2 tables. One is getting the bill. Waiting in line, waiting. Maybe they're closed? No one comes to acknowledge me. 10 minutes later and the waiter is still standing beside me, on the patio, talking to the customers, and I give up yet again. Service here is a bunch of fancy tattoos and dreadlocks, admire them for their fashionability, otherwise non-existent, it looks like this summer I'll be cooking for myself.