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| - I've been to The Persian Room a couple of times a year for the past 15 years. For dinner. Until today.
I stopped in for lunch.
The restaurant was more than half full at 1pm with luncheoners.
I placed my order for lamb shish kebab and Loobia Polo.
I expected the lunch portion at 1pm, since lunch is served until 3.
My lunch, or I should say, dinner, arrived and I looked at it thinking, that's a lot of rice. And was going to all the waiter of he mistakenly brought me a dinner portion. He didn't come back for 10 minutes so I ate because I was not going to let the food get cold.
I'm of Albanian descent and grew up on lamb, every which was it is prepared.
The lunch, ie dinner came with 6 pieces of filleted lamb kebabs, so, three whole lamb kebabs. Therefore, I figured it must have been the lunch portion because there was very little lamb. About 6 ounces, if that.
When the check came, I was charged for the dinner portion, over $24, with tax, plus $4.50 extra for the Loobia Polo, compared to a lesser upcharge for the lunch portion.
It's ridiculous for any waiter to assume someone coming in at 1pm wants the dinner portion, without asking them, rather than the lunch portion.
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