What would you think if upon entering a restaurant, whoever welcomes you tells you that the only table you can use is right next to the bathroom?
Going to a place where you don't need a reservation can be a terrible experience, as I relate below.
We arrived very hungry, and even though the place was packed, we decided that we would not continue looking for another place to eat. We were seated at the table near the men's room, and when they brought us the menu, we saw that a dead cockroach was right between the protective plastic and the sheet where the menu was written, at the end, without checking much, we ordered the house specialty, to avoid waiting and the disgust for that first impression.
However, the food was quite a long wait, so long that we ran out of the drink we ordered to wait. Finally the two dishes arrived; shrimp minestrone was the specialty, but the portions were really so few that they seemed to be the first meal of a 6 month old baby, a tiny plate on top of a much larger one, ended up in front of us.
We tried to put a good vibe on the whole thing, since we were already there, and if we were hungry, we would go somewhere else for dessert. But we didn't count on the detail of seeing how the rice in our dish started to walk! So I took out my glasses to get a closer look and found that they were larvae crawling on the small mountain of rice.
We put our plates aside and set out to eat the complimentary bread with garlic butter, since we would have to pay for the service. A too hard bread with a rancid butter scratched our palate, making us ask for another pitcher of juice to pass the taste, while we immediately asked for the bill and the novelty book to report the incident.
Until then no one had gone to the bathroom, but just when they brought us the bill but without the wireless posnet to pay, so the waiter went back to the cashier to look for it, and it was at that precise moment when someone went to the bathroom, and when the door opened, a fetid aroma flooded the entire room.
Apparently the plumbing had collapsed and all the sewage was backing up, and with it an odor that made the air unbreathable. We ended up writing a check, one of those that no one uses anymore, but that was much faster, to get out of such a nightmare.
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