Went down to Lincoln Road Mall in South Beach last night for dinner and just to walk around. We had a bit of a problem deciding where to eat as all three of us have very different tastes in dinning. Being a vegetarian I'm use to this. Christine and I prefer very casual eateries and eat very small meals, often just ordering an appetizer. Our friend that we brought along prefers formal three course dinning experiences and since I tortured her with eating at a pizzeria last time we wanted to go someplace more to her liking this time.
I suggested a restaurant called Torch on the way down but when we got there we discovered that it had gone out of business so we walked over to a Sushi place that we have dinned at before that is upscale and very good but when we got there we discovered construction going on outside so there was no outdoor dinning and our friend being a smoker didn't want to eat inside.
So off we walked and walked trying to choose from the plethora of restaurants along the walk. While walking our friend tripped and broke her flip flop so we had to find a place to buy new flip flops before we could eat. At this point I was willing to eat anywhere that had at least one vegetarian item on the menu so it was like whatever, lets just pick a place. Finally ended up at a place of her choosing called Aura.
The food at Aura was pretty bad, at least what Christine and I ordered. We thought it was greasy, bland, and very over priced but oddly our friend thought it was great. This is the first time that I've ever not liked something on Lincoln Road Mall but it has also been awhile since dinning there.
Lately all the food we have been getting while eating out seems to be very greasy and just not very good even at the places that previously was always very good. It seems like the restaurants are using cheaper ingredients and charging a lot more for lousier food. I think the restaurants are using cheaper stuff due to the economy trying to keep costs down.
I see a lot more home cooked meals in our future.
Today's Free Smut,
Asian Pounded In Fishnets
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