Went to Fat Cat with some friends for Winterlicious, which is a set time when restaurants pretend to offer a lower price prix fixe menu, but in fact charge a large amount for merely worse food. Well, to be fair, the food was alright, but the service was pretty bad.

So some of us arrive, we are originally 11 but one couldn’t make it, 10 is still a respectable number. But at first, only 4 of us are there, and the staff badger us a number of times about whether the rest of our party is coming. Yes yes, we say, they are just a little late. Like 10-15 minutes, not terrible. But in that period they ask three times, go away already, surely there are other customers to harass.

So we utter the phrase that seems to be the bane of our waiter, “separate cheques”…. “No, no” he says, “No, that’s just…… impossible… we can’t do that… with…. we’ve got a lot of people…. we just.. No… no, it’s impossible.” Hmm, I wonder how many decades we will have to wait for the technology for separate cheques to catch up with our fanciful dreams.

The next thing is the sort of thing people experience often, but man, it’s hard getting his attention, and we were trying to buy wine… wine!, don’t you want to sell us your relatively expensive wine?

Two stragglers finally came, but they didn’t seem inclines to sit apart. We had one spot at one end of the table on one side, and one on the far side on the other, but one sat at the head of the table where there was a chair but no plates or cultery. We started shifting down, but the waiter jumps out again, “No no, don’t move around, you’ll mess up the seating order.. we can’t handle that.. no… no…..”

The food was alright, nothing particularly fancy. One of my friends said, quite loudly, but not knowing the waiter was pouring water two seats down, that Winterlicious isn’t a good time to try to experience a restaurants best food. Heheh, unfortunately, it was accurate enough. I won’t talk about the food, curtis can do that himself I guess.

Anyway, we were there for a while, got the bill, paid, and then were told we should be on our way. Thanks.

Conclusion, if ever you have Fat Cat’s food, it’s probably best to get it to go.