A small selection of sides. That's what the man said. Hash brown - a small field of potatoes shredded, pressed into a dinner plate size cake 6 inches thick and fried. Mashed potatoes - two large serving dishes with mash, with cheese and butter and cream and chopped cilantro (coriander to much of the rest of the world). Asparagus with bearnaise. Brussels sprout salad. Shredded sprouts, warm red wine vinaigrette and bacon bits. Green beans, times two. Lobster risotto. Fries times two on huge platters, dusted in salt and parmijan (parmesan to you and me). Warm cheese bread and butter. Spinach.
That apparently is a small selection in Houston. Well, you say. If you are feeding 40 maybe that's ok. NO, we were 9 in total. We all had entrees of monster proportions, we had all had starters again of gargantuan proportions. The beans and the fries would have been fine. As it was it took a lot of effort to send most of it back. It took a lot of persuasion of the servers that we didn't want it all put into nice neat doggy bags.
So, back to the land of the normal portion size and, maybe, just maybe, the cheese free meal.
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