Special: Chicken Bone Salad Sandwich
Imagine my surprise when I bit into Ria’s delicious looking rosemary chicken salad sandwich and came up with a chicken bone the size of my middle finger. I’m not exaggerating.
My dining companions were stunned. When I pointed it out to the server, his eyes widened, declared it unacceptable, and snagged it away before I could take a tweet pic.
The size of the chicken bone compared to the size of the sandwich was so over the top that it begged the question: was it an accident? We thought not. Someone in the kitchen was pissed off at the owners. Its chicken salad, for God’s sake. This wasn’t an accident.
Fine, we get it, people make mistakes, even big ones. I could almost forgive the chicken bone if it wasn’t accompanied with the most dreadful service we’ve experienced this year, and we eat out a lot.
At first, they ungraciously offered half-off my substituted dish. Then, someone in the back came to their senses and comped the entire table, but the management didn’t have enough sense to come and talk to us or apologize.
Less this turn into a restaurant review or bashing, the point, and I do have one, is that even restaurants that ordinarily serve great food can make big mistakes and compound them with little ones. Ria, you’re better than this.
