A new Turkish/Spanish (?) restuarant opened and so we checked it out.
We were the only two in there at first and the atmostphere was pleasant enough,although the choice of music was oddly enough, low volume rock music.
We started on longuestines in garlic butter.
From here in, it went a bit "Fawlty Towers".
Without prompting in any way, the waitress suddenly removed the unfinished shellfish mid mouthful without warning and we had to ask for them back!
They were returned and the mains came out promptly enough.

Very wild tasting meat balls, I would say they were probably minced goat, very hot potatoes, kis-kis(why they spell cous cous different I know not), squid salad and white kidney beans.

All very nice.

Suddenly, without warning, the music became about ten times the volume it had been before, so loud that we were shouting over the table as Meat Loaf wailed his tale about the problem that he "Should Be Home By Now".
Another couple arrived and asked for a menu.
They were handed only a wine list.

The waitress came to take their order and after saying "pardon?", a lot, finally understood that they had no menu.
The Motley Crue, hammered their way through some hairy sexist brutality as this occured, scorching all ears in the uncarpeted room.

Disaster struck again, as our unfinished squid salad was removed from the table.
This time we relented and decided if the chef was really that hungry , he could have it,and head bang along with it`s little tentacles to his hearts content as it continued it`s obvious role of octo air guitar champion.

Two extremely strong coffees, and we are out of there, notably and even more strangely as quiter Turkish music was being played.

Perhaps, the music is (wrongly)client selected.

Either way, that brought a new meaning to takeaway food...

Very funny Mart!

Odd meal examples tend to happen in pairs.

There we are, Saturday morning, in a highly rated Italian restuarant, being shouted at by the owner for not ordering alcohol!(he doesn`t believe in people that don`t drink apparently)

Absolutely unbelieveable, with all the troubles often highlighted by "the binge drinking culture" of the UK, and 24 hour liscensing, it would appear that many establishments still have a lot to learn about the fact that they are in the service industry whether they like it or not and stop blaming yob culture.

And yes, he has his restuarant review all right, which I will personally send a signed copy of.
There is no excuse for rudeness.