{"id":21664,"date":"2013-08-03T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/when-old-friends-let-you-down\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:46:40","slug":"when-old-friends-let-you-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/when-old-friends-let-you-down\/","title":{"rendered":"When Old Friends let you down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Out of deference to my Old Friends (the <a title=\"restaurant\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> and the person) I will leave identifying words and utterances out of this <a title=\"restaurant\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> \u2018review\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to get out of our rather staid ways the Longhair, her Apprentice and I popped in to a new <a title=\"restaurant\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> with an old name on Friday night. Overlooking the sea, this cafe type <a title=\"restaurant\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> has location, location, location. A bonus for me was that I met an old school mate at the entrance who is an owner in the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was quite disappointing and I place my concerns here hoping that my old mate will take my advice, as a lowly person who eats for a living, and apply it so that he may become stronger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My list of concerns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not enough light at the table to read the menu<\/li>\n<li>The complete lack of a front of house<\/li>\n<li>Too few serving personnel<\/li>\n<li>Long waits for service and food<\/li>\n<li>Some people (like me) appreciate being offered another drink as the first one is finished \u2013 this did NOT happen<\/li>\n<li>The food was not to the same standard as the other two restaurants in PE of the same name \u2013 my lamb chops were rare, as asked for, but warmed up (rare lamb chops should have crispy fat and surface whilst being moist and pink inside \u2013 I gave up chewing)<\/li>\n<li>The Apprentice didn\u2019t enjoy her salad<\/li>\n<li>The Longhair\u2019s prawns lost their prawn taste a long time ago<\/li>\n<li>I didn\u2019t get salad dressing for my salad which, when asked for, came in a half portion compared to my dining companions<\/li>\n<li>The Longhair and Apprentice had to take serviettes to the ablutions which they reported as not being spick and span \u2013 neither was the hand dryer working<\/li>\n<li>Acquaintances of mine at another table, when asked by the waiter if they had enjoyed their meal, said; \u201cAt least the coffee was good!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Longhair, when paying, was told by the waiter that he was just hanging on as the place \u201cis a shambles\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Old Mate \u2013 running a restaurant is a brutal, brutal business requiring constant care, the least YOU could do is inspect every single plate that leaves your kitchen and apply some of my suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of deference to my Old Friends (the restaurant and the person) I will leave identifying words and utterances out of this restaurant \u2018review\u2019. Trying to get out of our rather staid ways the Longhair, her Apprentice and I popped in to a new restaurant with an old name on Friday night. Overlooking the sea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}