When the appetizers, main course dishes and dessert have very fancy names...
And the are way overpriced....
And you see 11 people working in the kitchen...
And another 13 tending the tables...
And you have to wait 45 minutes to get a table, in spite of your reservation...
And when you finally get to the table, 8 dollars don't buy you anything but a glass of house wine...
And $7.50 a can of (local ) beer
And when the main course arrives...
You get 2 microscopic pieces of steak, 5 Brussels sprouts and 1 potato divided in two for a dish called :Steak Dianne...
Who the fuck is Dianne?
And why is she so cheap?
And the kicker....
You leave the restaurant. You were a guest, so no worries about paying the bill...
But you end up driving 2 hours looking for an open restaurant in Downtown Vancouver, or Burnaby because you ARE starving
And they all turn you down because they close at 11:00PM (WTF?) on a Saturday...and its 10:45pm
So you end up having chicken wings at a sports bar with your underage kids, your 20 year old daughter and your wife...
At around midnight...
True story... and the moral is... I hate fucking Brussels sprouts or "choux de Bruxelles"
They that taste like crap, and they are not a broccoli, not a cabbage, or a cauliflower, they are Brussels sprouts..
And Steak Dianne is an American Dish not French lol