BACON & OLIVES: Dad's Restaurant (Wallingford, CT)

Dad’s Restaurant // 740 North Colony Road Wallingford, CT // September 1^st, 2012

                Going to Daddy’s on Saturday morning for breakfast was quite different than any other experience at a restaurant I think I’ve ever had before, but that is partially due to something beyond their control.    About halfway through eating our breakfast, the power went out.    It wasn’t just the restaurant; however, as the power went out on the entire strip and people who were trying to eat at other places down the road were driving up, wondering where the power actually was still on.

                Given my newfound love of pastrami, I decided to order a pastrami omelet, which came with cheese, diced tomatoes and diced onions as well as a side of potatoes.    The food itself was actually very, very good.  I felt like the omelet had enough inside of it to make it a success without overflowing the actual content and having it spill out somewhere, as omelets can tend to do when people want to overfill them. 

                The power going out was a rather different story, which involved many discrepancies.    First off, we were seated next to a door- the second door in the establishment- and when we first got our table we were specifically told not to block that door because it was a fire exit and people needed to get out.   I didn’t have a problem with that, but was unsure of their motives when they later contradicted themselves and stated that we were not to open the door to let some fresh air in because not only was it a door that the owner never wanted open, but they also claimed that if it was to be opened it would “fall off the hinges”.  

                On another odd note about this power outage (Which made the heat in the restaurant unbearable, so much that the wait staff was sweating) they actually locked the front door.  This was presumably done, in part, to keep new customers from coming in, which seemed reasonable because of the power outage, but they also had the customers who were actually inside already locked in.    Locking in your customers is not just a no-no in restaurant etiquette, but it is also illegal.   This also takes us back to the earlier discussion of fire hazards, but at this point I felt like this place was a sinking ship and I just wanted off no matter how good the food was.

Bacon & Olives Rating:  Somebody Call Fire Marshall Bill

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