Good food, bad service, one and a half stars

I got back to the house in the late afternoon yesterday, and almost immediately got into the shower.  Cas suggested that we have a work-free evening, and I thought it was a fine idea.  I had really worked hard all day, and I had no urge to work any more.

We decided to go out to dinner.  I even put on a dress.  I had been wearing some rather grubby clothes for the past several days to work on the house, so it was kind of nice to look like a girl again.  I had a groupon for a place called Patrizios.  It's about a mile north of our house.

We got to the restaurant, and parking was difficult.  The restaurant seemed to be littered out front with cars awaiting valet parking.  I hate valet parking.  Cas isn't crazy about it either.  We drove around the parking lot for way too long in order to avoid handing his car off to a stranger.

We wanted to sit at the bar and have a cocktail, since we were early for our reservation.  This was the creepy painting at the bar:

We had plenty of time to sit at the bar and enjoy the creepy art, too.  We must have been there for about five minutes without anyone acknowledging us.  I was watching a bartender, a bar back and a manager behind the bar, and they were not nearly busy enough to be that bad at customer service.  

With no drinks, we decided to go see about our table.  Maybe there, someone would ask us if we wanted something to eat or drink.  The whole place was loud.  Everyone around us in the bar and the dining area seemed to be shouting to be heard.  There was a table of women at the bar who was laughing loudly and hysterically at everything.  Apparently, her twin sister was two tables away from us.  Between the hooting laughter and the the near-shouting conversations all around us, we had trouble even hearing the waiter.  

On the bright side, the food was great.  If the prices were more reasonable, we would probably get takeout there.  There's absolutely no reason to sit in that restaurant again.  

We decided to head back home and have some wine while watching a little Netflix.  

Today, we have lunch with one of Cas' friends who is coming in from out of town, and after that, we have the people from Sears coming to deliver our refrigerator.  I think the gang will reconvene after that for some sort of evening fun.  I should probably get into a shower and eat a little bit of breakfast.