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| - I'm on the fence about Borgo. The service is pleasant enough. The decor is lovely. I've been here twice, and was with lovely company both times.
But I can't eat here. I can drink here and munch away on a bread basket, but I can't have a sit down breakfast; brunch; lunch or dinner. When I asked if they could just make one of the menu items without cheese, the server argued with me the way my Texan diehard-carnivore-meat-until-I-die-with-a-steak-knife-in-my-cold-dead-hands Grandma argues with me about how a certain item is "integral" to it being breakfast. Seriously? You can't just... make it without cheese? Without the buffalo mozzarella, it's "no longer breakfast?"
You have that entire giant open kitchen, that I can see from where I'm sitting, and no one in there is creative enough to think outside of the menu guidelines? And I'm not asking you to hand-grind some chickpeas and steep some burdock root in a cheese cloth. I just wanted it sans mozzarella, and apparently, in Borgo this is an outrageous and inconceivable request.
So, yeah, as much as I want to like it because of the fun times I've had here; showing up hungry was a bad idea. Having to argue with a server about being vegan; like it was something I can just decide not to be right there in order to ~*preserve the integrity of CHEESY BREAKFAST*~ in front of my friends that were enjoying themselves, made me feel awkward and uncomfortable and a little sad.
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