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I suppose I have mentioned that we are now eating "out" every Thursday night.

This is a relatively new experience representing a turn to culinary adventure in our old age. It is also a night off from cooking.

You probably know that I am generally restaurant averse. I don't much like anything about it. Usually, this starts with the idea that I could do as well cooking at home but we have found a number of places now that actually have stuff I like and would never attempt to cook at home. I would not roast any bird for example. Nor a beef. Too big, too much, mega leftovers. I also do not make "appetizers" and that is a major point out there. To say nothing of salads which are a challenge for me. Not that is difficult to toss a salad. I just am not into it that much.

Truth be known, my "cooking" has now devolved into the heating up of prepared foods. I no longer make sauces or the like. I will cook pasta although the soft stuff in the stores now is very tempting.

Eating out gives us a chance to see some foods that would never enter our home in forms I would never attempt.

Last night we walked out of a place. A sort of favorite of the mid range hipster or what passes as that. We went in, it was virtually empty, no one showed us to our seats. When I asked they did bring the menus. They were too bent on shooting the shit with each other near the beverage station.

I went and asked if they had table service. "Yes". Then no one came. We just got up and left.

The menu was not very interesting. It was our second time and I somehow didn't remember a bad experience.

Oh well.

We ended up at Elmers. Good service, enjoyable surroundings, a mid range menu with a lot of choice. And desserts.

It is still off season so one of our regular places is closed this month. We will make do. But now we are down to six places which, if you think about how picky we are, is pretty good.

Labels: eating out, restaurants