The spider man is having you for dinner tonight

[venta]

Still frantically busy[*]. In lieu of actual content: a poll!

[Poll #1711426]

This is a very conventional restaurant, by the way, which doesn't let you do unorthodox things. And you know you're only getting two courses, so opting for starter, main doesn't mean you might have an option on pud later.

There is a restaurant near us run by a very lovely lady called Lisa, who is perfectly happy for a three course meal to go starter, main, starter. I imagine she'd let you go pudding, pudding, pudding if you wanted, though I've never made the attempt.

[*] Organising this. Are you coming?

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I think it depends what's on the menu. Generally I'd probably go for a starter, but if the pudding menu has sticky toffee pudding or creme brulee, all bets are off.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I recently discovered (to my own surprise) that apparently creme brulee isn't the top of my own dessert pantheon. In an Italian restaurant, with ChrisC...

C: Do you want a pudding.
Me: No thanks.
C: Sure?
Me: Yup. I'm full.
C: They've got creme brulee on the menu.
Me: I know.
C: It's vanilla creme brulee.
Me: Yup, still full.
Me: No wait, they serve affogato, I'm having a pudding...

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Affogato occupies negative space. When you eat it, it makes you feel less full.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly argue that it's morally a cup of coffee, not a pudding at all :)

I had an interesting variant in a Japanese restaurant on Sunday: vanilla ice cream, coffee (cold, boo!) and chunky azuki bean paste. That worked pretty well, too.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I had a chocolate affogato in Lucca. (i.e. drinking chocolate instead of coffee, not coffee and chocolate ice-cream). The business.