Author: Restaurant Gal
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Top 23
In an effort to help a friend wade through the 569 posts I have written over two-and-a-half years, I told him I would scroll back and come up with my favorites. It proved to be an interesting exercise. Some of what I have written is deeply personal and heartfelt. Sometimes that equates to good writing.…
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From the Mouths of Babes
“We were sitting there eating dinner at my place, and he looked at my dog and said, ‘Can’t you just put him out on the porch or something?’” RG Daughter is repeating a conversation she had with a young man she has been seeing. A really cute young man who is creative and artistic and…
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Time Always Tells
When you return “home” after packing up a lifetime, and the Sunday shift is going well until one of the bartenders gets quite suddenly and unexpectedly trashed, and you are left having to pick up the pieces as you attempt to explain it all to your boss on the phone, you are apt to wonder…
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Flying Too High
Cost of round-trip, advance-purchase ticket, FLL to DCA: $248.00. “Great fare,” comments a friend. Cost of checking one bag: $15.00. “Yeah, sorry about that,” comments the desk agent. Cost to change my middle seat 17E to an aisle seat 8D: $10. “I think the duct tape wrapped around your arm rest is a really nice…
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Thanks, Waiter
Three years ago, I walked out of my office and into the hiring arena of one of D.C.’s most popular restaurants. I was hired on the spot. Six months into my job as a maitre d’, I began writing Restaurant Gal because I was astounded by the nature of the business and the stories that…
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Life is Short
I had only been to this funky, strictly local place twice, both times with my crazy friend who is no longer my friend like she used to be. Within seconds of meeting the bartender who’d worked there for 25-plus years, he told me, “Forgetting the blond hair, you have got to be Ginger from Gilligan’s…
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Movin’ Along
Moved yesterday. Grapling with cable and internet issues today (I know, shocking that it wasn’t done right the first time!). Will post again as soon as it all gets corrected. Other than that, the new place is unbelievably great. Look for photos soon. And as always, stay tuned for more stories. –RG
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New Digs
I am moving on Thursday. I can’t wait. But I am also nervous about tackling a new beginning, again, even if it is only a couple of miles away. Because it feels like a world away. Okay, maybe only half a world. Regardless, I have pushed through most of the packing, thanks to my neighbor’s…
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What My Boss Doesn’t Know
That he didn’t make me feel utterly incompetent by my having to call him 22,000 times tonight. That I actually had a pretty good sense of how to handle tonight, but since it was my first such horrific experience in this restaurant, I had to call him 22,000 times. That it wasn’t the substance of…
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Friday Night Withdrawal
“Under no circumstances are you to go to your beach bar,” counsels my neighbor and friend. “Nothing is to be gained, and you will only put yourself in front of the boy, which is about as unhealthy as it gets.” Okay. “When you want to go there tonight, think of what you would tell me…