Barbara's Not So Good

Monday January 7, 2008

Barbara's Cedar House Restaurant

I was real disappointed with my dinning experience at Barbara’s. The restaurant was very beautiful, built with southerner red cedar inside and out. The owners obvious had some great ideas and experience in building but that is was it ended. The real disappointment began with the service. The restaurant would probable sit 200 or more but only had about 30 people while we were there. There was one server and he seemed to lack experience. The owners sit on their behinds while he did all the work. He was slow in getting us our menus and then taking our orders. We had to wait on our drinks and salads. They evidently weren’t anymore prepared in the kitchen because it took forever to get served our food. All the while the owners sit at the bar drinking beer, seldom attending to customers or even sitting guest. The server did it all including running the cash resister. The food was mediocre and with a limited menu to chose from. The food was overpriced for the quality. The pricing would have been justified if the food and service had matched the beauty of the place. I don’t believe they have a clue on running a restaurant. If they place ever got full it would be a disaster. There are too many good eating places to choose from to go back to Barbara’s.

I started my diet Sunday. Today is the second day. I did okay yesterday until late yesterday. Today hasn’t been too bad. Shelly has been managing the food so all I have to do is follow it. That’s not hard except I do get hungry. On the Alli program you go a few days before you start on their pills to get the fat out of your diet. When you start taking the medication it has it’s built in incentive to not take in too much fat. It blocks about 25% of the fat intake so if you take in too much fat it can have unpleasant results as it is passed through.