Who do you have to know to get good service around here ?
Made reservations for 5:30 for what we thought would be an early holiday dinner with the family.
Were seated, specials listed, orders taken
Food arrived: one soup - in retrospect a smart order - because everyone else's mains came almost an hour later.
It's busy, it's a holiday. Understood.
An aside: the holiday meal looked like a Swanson TV dinner. I hear it tasted a bit better than that. But Harbord House has a reputation for good food. Maybe just not tonight.
Everything all right ? Want a top up on your coffee ? Need more water ?
Good questions.
We were not asked.
But the person looking after our table made sure those bar glasses were polished to within an inch of their lives.
Hmmm. How about: guests first, goblets later.
Another aside: when the specials were listed at the top of the meal, no mention was made of pumpkin pie. Maybe we would have liked some. We'll never know. It was sold out by the time we were thinking of dessert.
What a disappointment.