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| - I so desperately wanted to love Duggan's. Alas, that place is 'spensive for what they're offering!
I had the Pan-seared Tuna Sandwich. It was bland, the bun was limp, and it was served with a sad side salad: spring mix only, overdressed, no accompaniments. Truly amateur.
My partner ordered the Fish & Chips, which were sort of comfortingly boring. Except the fries were limp. The worst part was that it came with a little ramekin of blue cheese coleslaw. The coleslaw would have made absolutely sense when served with the Buffalo Wings, which is clearly what it was made for, but someone thought they could cut corners by pairing it with breaded halibut as well. Yikes, a horrifying flavour combination! It all just smacked of laziness.
While the No. 9 IPA is very good, I actually had to send my first pint back. Why? Because the glass it came in reeked like sour bar towel. I know the smell well from working in restaurants. Bar towels get mildewy if you leave them out overnight and don't change them the next day. So if you use them to dry a pint glass, the pint glass gets really smelly and wafts into your face every time you take a sip of beer. Ew.
Sending a beer back because it stinks like old bar towel is admittedly a weird complaint. But I doubt the server needed to come back with my new beer and say patronizingly, "Here you are, a new glass cleaned especially for you!" They cleaned a glass properly just for me? Aw shucks.
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