On Saturday evening, after Mass at the Oratory, Nick and I walked towards Sth Kensington station in search of dinner. We found an Indian restaurant (in fact we only ate Indian because we love it so much!), it looked like a nice place and not too expensive, so we went in, the waiter gave us the menus and then said: 'Beer?'
We were shocked. Okay we were in mufti but in Australia nobody would ever assume that we were drinking beer at a restaurant. We wanted to reply: 'Nah, mate, we're Ozzies - can we 'ave a Captain Cook at yer woine list?'
It's funny that the British have appallingly poor wine lists. In Australia, land of the beer-swilling Bloke, we would have complained to each other about the crap wine list!
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Did the waiter know you were Australian - was his assumption based on your origin, or just standard British practice?
I am a little surprised that wine lists in Britain are so bad, considering they're just across the Channel from Europe! How sad for them...
lol! You are showing your wine snobbishness. :-)
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