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The most common trend in the Portland area is making all food eclectic. Restaurants no longer serve any basic staples and even comfort foods are doctored up with eel liver, squid ink, monkey snot... Even food carts are jumping on the eclectic bandwagon. There was a time when I could go into any restaurant and find something fairly simple to eat. Now it's the opposite.
-Stacked entrees. Vegetable on the bottom. Starch in the middle. Meat/protein on the top stacked like a Big Mac. I always end up separating the layers before I eat them. Like below the butt pants the trend can go away any day now.
- Waiter referring to the entire table as "guys". Since someone mentioned Goodfellas, when did servers become a perkier Joe Pesci?
-industrial decor. Since when did modern restaurants = surplus 1978 metal public school chairs and rickety cafeteria tables?
-this is more of a pet peeve than trend but at an accepts no reservations type sit down restaurant being walked through a partially empty dining room and open tables to the tiniest table in buttcrack of the restaurant next to the bathroom or the server station or a huge party with screaming children and drunk adults.
I always ask to be moved when I get this table. At times I think it's me, but i usually notice an attempt to seat other parties at the same crap table and them promptly ask to be moved as well. Yes sections open and close and they want to spread out the service, but it's like the seat right in front of the bathrooms on an airplane. Quit trying to fill it when other seats are open. Even if I am not dropping hundreds of dollars on a meal I would like a pleasurable dining experience without getting a whiff of the bathrooms, watch children swordfight with skinny breadsticks or listen to servers complain about management, other servers, customers, share their most recent staff hook up, or the clang of plates and glasses behind my head.
Haha, Laird's is in Colts Neck, a couple of miles from where I live. I pass it all the time.
Forgotten Towns sounds interesting.
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