Who Thought That Was A Good Idea?

Last night after voting, Ron and I headed out to dinner.

We went to a relatively new place in town called The Roman Room. I believe that this restaurant has only been open two to three months so far and it’s supposed to be an Italian restaurant. We went there once about a month ago and we tried to attribute some of the problems they were having to bugs in the system because they hadn’t been open long. We thought they just needed a little more time perhaps and the kinks would iron themselves out. We might have been a little wrong on that count.

I’ve been trying hard to put as nice of a slant on this as I can. I know that Ron REALLY wants to like this place. It’s new, it’s not a chain, we love Italian food, it’s close to home and the atmosphere is really nice inside. Ok, there are the pluses.

On the down side, the food at best is average. The service borders on awful. They must be hiring family because it doesn’t seem like any of these ladies know anything about waitressing or even what is on their menu.

As I said, it was an Italian restaurant. Our waitress came to our table to take back the parmesan cheese and the pepper flakes because “the restaurant only has three shaker jars of the cheese and only two with the pepper flakes”. Serious!

Poor place has big ideas of grandeur with the raspberry sorbet served after the appetizer, before the main course. Yes, that part I like. How can anyone not like raspberry sorbet for crying out loud? But for this nice, teeny fancy cups that they put the sorbet in, they give you an iced tea spoon that’s almost a foot long! C’mon now, a little teaspoon would be much easier.

Oh well. We will continue to look for good restaurants. And, if they fall short, you can be sure I’ll let y’all know where not to go.