Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Grand Zodiac Room

My mom, Shari, and I have a Christmas tradition of having lunch at the Zodiac Room at the downtown Neiman's the week of Christmas. Leading up to Christmas, the Zodiac Room is very busy and thus does a buffet. Extremely busy can also mean bad service which is what we unfortunately experienced today.

We had wine with lunch and were hoping to order some post-lunch drinks while we waited on dessert. Our waiter was too busy flirting with the hostess to notice our lack of beverage so my mom decided she would take a restroom break. When she got up to go, she said, "my name is grand f***ing champagne cocktail"...which after laughing hysterically, Shari and I realized that my mom wanted us to order her another grand champagne cocktail if Casanova could be torn away from the hostess long enough to go fetch us some drinks.

We did eventually get our post-lunch drinks and our blue desserts which included BLUE JELLO. Apparently, there was some sort of blue ice theme this year and all the desserts included blue...like blueberry sugar cookies. It was quite odd, to say the least, but the blue jello was a little much. You would have thought they would get the hint when every bussed dessert dish still included the blue jello.

So my 2010 Zodiac Room Summary:
Food - Average, blue jello really brought the stock down
Drinks - Great, once you could get one
Atmosphere - Sub-par, blue ice theme was like a weird scene in Rudolph
Company - Amazing
Bottom line - Zodiac Room was anything but Grand this year

1 comment:

  1. The blue jello was offensive. May have to start a new tradition. -shari

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