The author of this blog would like to request permission to go on a bit of a rant.
Specifically a rant about this:
The syrup that fancy restaurants try to pass off as an adequate sweetener for tea.
Come on, I live in the the South. We take our sweet tea very seriously here.
It's really the only thing about the South that I do take seriously.
When I'm in a restaurant I need them to offer sweet tea. I mean...I NEED them to.
This doesn't mean:
"Well we have unsweet but you can sweeten it!"
See...When I'm traveling outside the South I don't expect to be offered sweet tea. But in Alabama I NEED my sweet tea!
Maybe I'm missing something.
Dear Restaurant Owners, Is it really that much more trouble to make up a batch of sweet tea?
Maybe it is and I don't know. Enlighten me. Help me out here because if you are just providing the little creamer full of liquid sweetener just to be fancy I'm crying foul.
Foul not fowl.
"Don't bother us with your restaurant hang ups!"
I say all this because I went to a fantastic restaurant in Huntsville last week.
It was my first time to eat there and the food was crazy good. The atmosphere was nice and the service was superb.
I stole that picture off the website. My bad.
The restaurant is called Commerce Kitchen and it's in downtown Huntsville.
A bit pricey but it was phenomenal.
However...
And this is where I get ranty
They had no sweet tea. Zero, zilch, nada. How can you not have Sweet Tea!? All they had was unsweet with sweet syrup.
So...
A part of me is really excited about going back to Commerce Kitchen. And I'm imagining holding hands and walking in the park afterwards and then maybe he drops down on one knee and proposes...
Dang, it! We got married twelve years ago! Note to self: amend romantic fantasies.
But another big part of me is thinking 'Eh...They don't have sweet tea.'
So what about it readers? What is your number one pet peeve about Huntsville restaurants?
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Strangely enough, the best sweet tea I've found in HSV is at Mexican restaurants.
ReplyDeleteToo true! Cantina Laredo and El Palacio have the absolute best!
DeleteI also hate the syrup option because if they fill your glass up, then there isn't any room to add the liquid sweetener. So you have to -gag- actually drink some of the nasty unsweetened tea so you have room in your glass to add the liquid. Someone wasn't thinking with that option. Just give me the pink stuff in a packet. Better yet - just sweeten the entire batch in the back. This is Alabama for gosh sakes. Next time just order a glass of wine.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Every time I go to a restaurant in HSV that doesn't have sweet tea I think "this place is never going to last." Seriously, when was the last time we had a restaurant in HSV that didn't have sweet tea that made it?
DeleteMy number one pet peeve in restaurants are untrained wait staff. I absolutely detest having servers reach over my plate to hand something or refill the glass of the person next to me. I have had servers get so close that I could wipe my nose on their sleeves! This is so rude and shows lack of training, respect and common sense.
ReplyDeleteI'll now get off my soapbox. Thanks for the rant opportunity.
That would fall on the manager for sure.
DeleteGood heavens! No sweet tea? Next think you know your eggs will come with hash browns or country fries and the server will claim ignorance of anything called grits!
ReplyDeleteSweet Tea is like wine to me. Unless you're in a dry county you kind of expect wine at a nice restaurant. Well, to me, not having wine is akin to not having sweet tea.
DeleteYou come by it naturally. Your maternal grandmother never severed anything else. I did not know tea came unsweetened until I was in college.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone want it unsweet, I say!
DeleteThe sugar really is bad for people.
ReplyDeleteSkip Watson
Please don't clog up my blog with reason and intelligence. It has no place here.
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