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| - Did you know that Valentine's day this year was on a Wednesday, which is convenient for "We haven't eaten here on Wednesdays". I had been here one time before, I think for Big Brad's birthday several years ago. Kridz said she had never been here, so, we went.
They had a special menu for the night. I ordered the seafood pasta off the specials, and Kridz got the Alfredo.
In my food, the shrimps were present, the bits of something else (like lobster, or maybe crawfish?) were there too. It said scallops, and I love scallops, but these were the tiny ones, like you get in the grocery store in the frozen seafood aisle. They were about the size of a dime, and maybe as tall as 4 dimes stacked up. That was disappointing. The sauce had good flavor, the seafood also had good flavor, even though the tiny scallops.
The weirdest part of the meal was that both of our dishes, when they came out, looked like they had been under the warmer for a very long time. The top quarter inch had a brownish hue, while the bottom of them had sauce that was much more... saucy.
The salt shaker on our table barely worked.
Recently, we had been up to the U.P. and ate at a supper club. There were several aspects to the supper club that were disappointing. The biggest drawback was that the salad was served on plastic plates. A lot of the stuff there was plastic. which just gave it an overall cheap feel to the place.
After being up there, going into Manzella's was really nice. Glass salad plates, clean silverware, glass rocks glasses. These are things that can easily be skimped on, but doing just that small thing (like being cheap on plates) can either take away from, or really add to the dining experience.
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