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Are people finally sick of Toronto attitude?
From the Toronto Star
So hip it hurts? Have fun for a change
How to be gloriously uncool while having a fabulous time
From croquet to Canadian Idol, our tips for living large
There's nothing quite like being made to feel worse than dirt when you're spending $400 on a meal in a Toronto restaurant.
A recent visit to a downtown restaurant, which shall remain unnamed, managed to reduce three pretty gosh-darned sophisticated people first to severe uncomfortableness, then to giggles over the idiocy of it all.
Never mind that the temperature in the stark room must have been hovering around 15 Celsius; the iciness of the waiter was enough to make you reach for an electric blanket. We were told how to order and from which sections of the menu and that we had to share all the dishes, and furthermore, that the chef would decide in which order the meal would be served. When we declined the offer to "discuss" wine choices, the temperature plummeted to around freezing and the waiter's mouth turned down more than we thought was humanly possible.
The food was delicious, but didn't make up for the feeling of being looked down upon by someone whose job it is to bring us food. An urge to jump on the table, crack open an Ex, chew some tobacco, get a cheap boob job and start doing the Macarena became almost irresistible.
The long and the short of it is that at a certain point you just want to have fun, and not have to give a care about how you look or feel while having it. That leaves out snooty dining experiences, any club you have to line up for and bars that charge more than $10 for a martini in a plastic glass. (You know who you are.)
Going to the track, sitting in the sun, drinking domestic beer and betting on the ponies may be pretty hokey, but at least we won't be silently judged while — gasp! — enjoying ourselves
Last edited by Jayx1 on Aug-22-2004 at 18:43
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Enjoy your boonies and live the city living to us...oh yeah I want another 3 minutes back
