Restaurant #6: Friends with Food Restrictions
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If you want to cook and take care of your friends with food restrictions, there are many great blogs and recipe books out there.
If you are on a Cuisine Quest to visit every restaurant in your town, and you have a friend with you, how do you handle her food restrictions?
You let her pick the restaurant!
We have finished the restaurants on our first street, so I made my chart of the restaurants on the next street we will tackle. I gave our friend the list, and she chose the one that seemed to work best for her dietary needs.
Most of the places on our first street were casual restaurants, so it was nice to sit down to a Thai restaurant that has tablecloths and an attentive waitstaff. This small restaurant, even on a weeknight, was so busy that we had to squeeze into a table on the sidewalk outside. A busy restaurant is a good sign!
But will they take care of our friend with food restrictions?
Our friend ordered Thai Green Curry with beef, coconut milk, bamboo, peas, carrots, eggplant, and sweet basil.
Her Thai Green Curry is served with rice, and when she ordered and requested vegetables instead of rice, the server was very confused. It already comes with vegetables, so why would you want more? Our friend tried again. Perhaps some cabbage instead of rice? The server didn’t think the kitchen could do that.
But in the end, it didn’t matter, because her food was “lick-the-plate good!”
My Chicken Fried Rice had a tasty balance of meat and vegetables, and was enough for leftovers.
My husband’s dinner was similar to our friend’s, but with chicken and Thai soy sauce. He liked it!
Would we go back? Three forks up! Even without accommodations being made for our friend’s food restrictions, she still would eat there again.
A different person with food restrictions could have made the evening unpleasant. People who want to can complain about anything.