Saturday, July 10

So it was supposed to be Michael's night to cook.  And we were supposed to have homemade ravioli.  But apparently I misunderstood what Michael meant when he asked me to take the hamburger out of the freezer.  I guess he meant now.  As a result, the hamburger was not defrosted and we ended up going out.  After a ten minute negotation process where one of us would suggest a restaurant and the other would immediately dismiss it, we settled on Hollywood Diner, just a couple miles from our house. 

I ordered their fried food platter -- chicken fingers, buffalo chicken wings, moz sticks, onion rings, with a side of fries.  Michael ordered the chicken ceasar wrap (which came with fries) and a side of moz sticks.  Both of our orders contained fries.  About seven minutes after placing our order, our waitress came back and told us they were completely out of fries.  Not exactly sure how that happens at 5:30 pm on a Saturday at a diner, but well, okay.  Michael subbed homefries for the fries and I decided to go without.  My food was tasty.  Although I wasn't surprised given that it was just fried food.  Michael's chicken ceasar wrap appeared to not contain ceasar dressing and the homefries were pretty disgusting. 

About 3/4 of the way through dinner, our waitress reappeared and told us they now had fries and asked us whether we wanted them.  I could tell Michael wasn't happy with the homefries (and really, I hadn't had enough fried food yet), so we told her, yes, we'd like a side of fries.  Putting aside the question of how they now had fries, we tried them.  Not completely fried and kind of soggy -- they obviously rushed getting them out to us.  Bummer.

Anyways, we'll probably go back again just because they have such a huge menu (last time we were there, Michael loved the spaghetti with meatballs), great hours, and are convenient, but we'll remember not to order the fries in the future.