SEARCH FOR PERFECT RESTAURANT

SEARCH FOR PERFECT RESTAURANT

We bought one of those “GoPlaySave – Raleigh” coupon books for $30, good through 2014, hoping it will give us incentive to try new restaurants in our area  – even though we’ve only moved across town. 

We were in the mood for Italian food last night.  (Put more precisely, I wanted Italian food.)  I wanted to go to a nice restaurant, as opposed to a quick order-at-the-counter place.  (Do those places have a name?  Is it “fast-food-indoors,” or “sort-of-fast-food restaurant,” or maybe “over-the-counter food”?)  I clipped one of my coupons and we drove there.  It turned out to be a quick-food pizza place.  

Throwing the coupon book to the back seat, we kept driving.  We found an Italian bistro and wow!  The atmosphere was wonderful!  The aroma was wonderful!  The service was wonderful!  We ordered drinks and talked about how this might become “our special place”. 

But then the food came.