This Is A Steak Out!
Last night, after a long and boring day in the shop, I went out with a couple of lasses to a hotel in Stromness (Orkney's 2nd town), where one of the hotels was having a "Steak Night" - where you could have anything off the menu, so long as it was dead cow.
Anyway, drove through there and arrived just after 8pm (table booked for 8o'clock). Were shown to our table in the bar - thinking it was a good job we had booked, because the carnivores were out in force and the place was heaving!
We had a drink and waited 15 minutes or so for them to come and take our order... and then waited, and waited, and waited... and then waited some more... before finally (at about 9:20pm), our food arrived.
Now, it was good... steak was a little chewier than I expected a really good cooked steak to be... but it had a good sauce, chips were good, the haggis topping was delicious...
But we discovered (by being told by another customer) what the delay had been - Believe it or not, the hotel had run out of steak! Presumably an emergency call was made to the butcher (either that, or they went hunting for any feral cats in the area)... but you would have thought they'd make sure there were enough to cover bookings and, if steaks were getting short, they'd start telling people who'd just turned up that, sorry, they were fully booked? Wouldn't you?
Came back through to Kirkwall after that, and had a few drinks before the pubs shut.
Feeling better this Sunday than last weekend.
Buggering off now to watch "Dancing On Ice", and hoping Greg Rusedski will be skating out of it this week...
Anyway, drove through there and arrived just after 8pm (table booked for 8o'clock). Were shown to our table in the bar - thinking it was a good job we had booked, because the carnivores were out in force and the place was heaving!
We had a drink and waited 15 minutes or so for them to come and take our order... and then waited, and waited, and waited... and then waited some more... before finally (at about 9:20pm), our food arrived.
Now, it was good... steak was a little chewier than I expected a really good cooked steak to be... but it had a good sauce, chips were good, the haggis topping was delicious...
But we discovered (by being told by another customer) what the delay had been - Believe it or not, the hotel had run out of steak! Presumably an emergency call was made to the butcher (either that, or they went hunting for any feral cats in the area)... but you would have thought they'd make sure there were enough to cover bookings and, if steaks were getting short, they'd start telling people who'd just turned up that, sorry, they were fully booked? Wouldn't you?
Came back through to Kirkwall after that, and had a few drinks before the pubs shut.
Feeling better this Sunday than last weekend.
Buggering off now to watch "Dancing On Ice", and hoping Greg Rusedski will be skating out of it this week...
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