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| - I can't believe I didn't review Touch yet. I love this place. I will pick one specific experience to highlight.
I made reservations for Touch Supper Club on a Friday night. We were cranky and tired from a long week of work when my table of 4 arrived. When I say we were cranky, I mean we were short-tempered, irritable, and completely irrational. I didn't even like us. One of my friends sent the waitress to the kitchen to ask the chef if he thought she should order lobster ravioli or a seafood fettuccini. This of course angered me as I actually have dietary restrictions and had a legit question. So within 10 minutes we hated each other and had managed to annoy the chef and waitress. To make matters worse someone thought it would be funny to constantly tease our server that we were going to dine and dash. This was of course funny to us, but horrifying to the waitress who looked at us as people just annoying enough to do that. But the good vibes of Friday melted our tension and by the time the food arrived we had apologized to the server and each other. By the time the apps (fries and mussels) rolled in, the table was a full-on party. The fries came with a mustardy aioli which, although legitimately delicious, we mostly ignored because it seemed like dunking the fries in anything besides the mussel's broth was like gilding the lily. My friend declared that if she had been enjoying the appetizers in the privacy of her own kitchen she would have been tempted to eat the broth in the bottom of the bowl with a spoon. She said it with that crazy look in her eye so we knew that we should move the bowl away from her before she lifted the bowl to her lips and slurped the broth like a kid with his Saturday morning cereal bowl. Just a couple weeks back we had tried the Belgian style fries with mussels at Bar Cento down the street. While the fries are excellent at Bar Cento, the fries/mussels combo at Touch blows away Bar Cento's.
Anyways, we ended up having a great time at Touch, thanks mostly to the good food and accommodating service. My most awkward moment of the night was when I requested the dj to play Tina Turner and he didn't seem to think it was funny. I think he may have actually thought I expected him to play Tina Turner (clearly, I was flirting with him AND had the common ailment of having Turner's "The Best" playing on repeat in my head). When he explained that he wasn't a fan of Tina Turner in a fake British accent, I retorted that was crazy in my best British accent. When I got a better whiff of the dj's accent and realized that he was in fact British, I sort of felt like I needed to continue the British accent in order to make it seem like I was also British, and not a socially awkward if not mean American. I don't think it worked though. I don't really mind because how can I worry about what someone thinks who openly decries his dislike of Tina Turner? Later in the evening I was retelling my Tina Turner/British accent faux pas to a potential suitor and he responded that he doesn't like Tina Turner because he "doesn't think she has intelligent comments when she is judging on that show." It took me about 30 seconds before I realized he had Paula Abdul and Tina Turner confused. Really? The day that Hillary Swank wins another Oscar for her roll in the Cold Hearted Snake film portraying the failed love affair of Paula Abdul and Emilio Estevez is the day I will continue a conversation with someone who thinks Tina Turner and Paula Abdul are the same person. I don't think there could be anything more unattractive to me than a guy mistaking any one of Rock and Roll's greats with Paula Abdul. Then again, I would hate to hear what the British house dj thought of a Midwesterner requesting Tina Turner in a faux British accent.
(Touch is slightly hard to spot and I always tell people it is about a block west of W25th on Lorain right before you get to St.Ignatius).
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