Why you shouldn't order an aperitif
Aug. 2nd, 2004 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
franceslievensBirthdays aren't celebrated indoors, so on Saturday we had dinner outdoors in a little restaurant called En face de parachute, where the cook says to some of his regular customers: "Nah, that dish is shite. We just put it on the menu cos it has been sitting in our freezer for ages."
When we sat down we were asked if we wanted an appetiser while deciding what to eat. We declined and said we'd start immediately with wine. A moment later the waitress came back: "This is an aperitif on the house. It's a Muscat, a fruity white wine." We were a bit stunned. We didn't order anything, but we got drinks anyway. Added up with the bottle of wine we drank afterwards over dinner, it made us walk the streets of Brussels rather drunk. Good times.
Moral: Don't order an aperitif. You might just get one for free.
When we sat down we were asked if we wanted an appetiser while deciding what to eat. We declined and said we'd start immediately with wine. A moment later the waitress came back: "This is an aperitif on the house. It's a Muscat, a fruity white wine." We were a bit stunned. We didn't order anything, but we got drinks anyway. Added up with the bottle of wine we drank afterwards over dinner, it made us walk the streets of Brussels rather drunk. Good times.
Moral: Don't order an aperitif. You might just get one for free.
