Resturants

[Wahalla]

Yu know mi nyam nuff times out... Is just dat is a buisness exxpense... Suh fi deh lass couple weeks mi an mi libyan bredren deh a landan same time.. Fi deh las couple weeks wi been going resutrants.. las week wi guh ah wan itlian one, dis week wi went tuh a columbian one, twoo week time yu ah guh a wan Japanese wan fi fine Wagu beef.... Suh drapping two three hundred poun per head is a bizness expense nat a impostion....

Next week wi ah guh a wan Caribean one...
Now every time mi guh inna wan Jamaican resturant deh sinting wrang.....Suh mi nuh guh tuh too many ah dem.... Deh bes Jamaican resturant mi know is one pan spur tree.. deh service is supberb....but half deh time deh menu is MIA....

Deh waitress dem unfriendly an kiss teeth, dem unhelpful, half deh sinting wey deh pan menu dem nuh have, deh food cole, an unda cooked, mi get operation.... Mi jus neva get good service inna dem....

Suh is mi Jamaican resturant experience unique ????? Any badi ever been tuh Cottons inna landan ??????

[Suesumba]

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yes. i especially like how they act annoyed that you showed up and there's not even one other customer in the place, while the server is busy chatting on the phone and switching the tv channel.

customer: i'd like to order the conch soup,please?
server: sorry no conch
customer: i'd like a beef patty please
server: patty done, but if yu want wait di man soon come

[CeaBee]

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the jamaican places near me, the owners are usually pretty nice and helpful.

but these are usually small places, with the owners at the counter as cashier/and or waitress.

did go to one recently, where it neva look like it was the owner me was talking to, and i got a fair amount of rolleyes and attitude.

[Suesumba]

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there's a really nice one here with ~~~ gasp ~~~ white linen table cloths. and they never run out of wine

[diabolical_Tanya]

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it seems to be universal

one of the "nicer" ones that I frequent the treatment I get varies depending on who I go there with.

There is always someone from the kitchen in the dining room eating

One evening I went there on a "date" with this guy and the server practically threw herself at him mi surprised shi neva juss liff up har frock an show him di ress a di menu

but dem a di only one weh have good food

di nex one is some small island people run it an dem noh know how fi cook good yaad food

an blue lagoon juss too damn far fi reach..dem have good food but yu will get di rolleyes from di servers unless is di cook/owner a deal wid yu

[Gen]

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wahalla that is not unique to you, it happens all over.

I don't know why they have to behave like that.

[simmi27]

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yep..universal..I started going to one down here 10yrs ago at first everything was fine cusomer service and food but the owner opened up a new place about two years ago so she isn' at this one as much and service went down the drain..the people up front dont know to take orders correctly and when you get your food and it nots right they act like they did you a favor instead of correcting the order

...and dont order stew chicken, beef anything with gravy for that matter because the whole plate a food will be swimming in gravy.

[ILP]

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is not you one.
you press bad fi fine one weh nu gwan like you do dem someting fi go inna dem establishment.
mi fine one place, but is on di oddah side ah town. one likke box place wid few tables in deh.
di food nice too.
dem juss open, so mi know it not gwine last doh.

[Suesumba]

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a lot of them aren't conducive to an "evening with my companion" places because the music soh dyam loud

[CeaBee]

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this is for one a dem dates when u nuh really inna the mood for no chit chat

[Jazz]

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I think the attitude is a pre-requisite to running an authentic Jamaican restaurant... no self respecting Jam eating place would be caught dead without one...

de place rung de corna from mi - as mi opin de door dem bawk out mi name an stawt cuss mi... so mi get sumahht - mi enta wid a group now an jump out wen dem lease expeck to si mi an beat dem to de punch,....

mi complain botu de prices, ,i complain bout de lack of ability fe tek credit cyaad - mi cuss how de goat tough (not really)...

den we inquire botu each odda health - mi aks botu de place she ah build ah POrtland an mi lef..

wen mi lef mi feel like mi jus tek a quick visit to yawd an come back... would not have it any other way

[diabolical_Tanya]

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is country yu come from right?

true mi noh come fram country mi noh used to dem kinda place.

di one Kevin run up yah come een like di rum bar a Junction weh mi uncle always kotch up inna

[CeaBee]

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but jazz place sound pleasant and friendly...not like the lady weh roll har eyes at me and mek up her face when me ask har bout the patty

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">is country yu come from right?

true mi noh come fram country mi noh used to dem kinda place.

di one Kevin run up yah come een like di rum bar a Junction weh mi uncle always kotch up inna


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WALK AWF!
wen mi did deh ah country mi nevva used to eat ah road... mi modda woulda kill mi!

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ceabee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">but jazz place sound pleasant and friendly...not like the lady weh roll har eyes at me and mek up her face when me ask har bout the patty </div></div>

well dem pleasant and friendly in a nasty, rough scotch brite kinda way