Tales from the Restaurant
Went to California Pizza Kitchen on Bay Street after church. Tried the Dulce de Leche Cheesecake. It's supposed to be "A rich and creamy New York style cheesecake with a delicious combination of caramel and sweet cream on a Graham cracker crust." Sounds pretty good doesn't it? Yet, for some reason it tasted like more like pumpkin cheesecake than a caramel cheesecake. But they don't have Pumpkin cheesecake at CPK, so it must have been right. The waitress came around and asked if everything was alright, and we just nodded our heads, even though we were all thinking "This doesn't taste like Dulce de Leche... it tastes like Pumpkin."
A few months ago, I went to the Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco with some friends. Since Cheesecake Factory doesn't take reservations, and we had a large group (8) on a Friday evening, they made us wait for nearly 3 hours. Now, we should have just gone someplace else, but there were 3 others who were supposed to come who bailed on us after we had been waiting almost an hour and a half, so we stuck around. Anyways, we were seated at about 10:00, and it was another 15 minutes before they took our order. . The waiter told us the soups were french onion and Clam Chowder. Several of us were starving, myself included, and ordered the Clam Chowder. Clam Chowder is one of my fatal weaknesses. If they have it, I will order it. I lapped up the soup pretty quickly, as did my companions. 5 minutes later, when the waiter came to bring more appetizers, he said "I'm sorry, I made a mistake. We didn't have any Clam Chowder, that was Cream of Chicken soup." Farrell, who was sitting across from me and who had also ordered the soup, looked at me, looked at my empty bowl, as I looked at him and his empty bowl, and the two of us burst out laughing. We had both eaten the soup so quickly, neither of us noticed that what we thought were Clams was actually Chicken!
Speaking of Clam Chowder, I like the Campbell's Select and Chunky style Clam Chowder. I think Progresso is a bit too thin for my tastes.
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