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« One thing leads to another | Main | The food sample bin » Monday, January 22, 2007It was a nice place to watch the game, but...
Last night, the Sauce team (off duty) went to James's Gate in Jamaica Plain to watch the game. Being the Sauce team, though, we needed to eat first. Advised by the former JP resident in our party to go with pub classics, we mostly ordered the (seemingly) innocuous likes of turkey burgers, fish 'n' chips, and soup. The burgers and fish were fine. But when the soup arrived, it tasted like Campbell's cream o' creosote and tomato. Had someone been using our bowl as an ashtray? Because this had the flavor of a pack's worth of cigarette butts. No, the waitress explained, it was smoked tomato soup. A lump of coal -- in a pot of potage -- to James's Gate for making tomato soup inedible. (And a double raspberry for our after-dinner tea. The mugs of water arrived lukewarm; when we asked for hot water to brew our bags in, the mugs came back even luker. At last we've found a kitchen staff we can honestly say doesn't even know how to boil water.) Posted by Devra First at 03:56 PM
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