Here's the thing about caveman food: our kids don't like it.
As I suspected, Ben and Garrett both earned the requisite checks to go out for dinner tonight at Restaurant Pravěk. Off we went to enjoy a meal with our well-mannered progeny.
When mammoth tusks greet you inside the door, you get the sense you're in for something different.
But despite the great decor, it was a disappointment as dining experiences go. The food was so so. The music was all wrong.* And the service was ambivalent. I mean, our server hardly had a pulse, nevermind a bone in her hair.
We realized a little too quickly that this wouldn't be the wild night with cavemen we had envisioned. But you know what? The boys, while bummed, took it pretty well. Who knew this "reward dinner" would provide its own opportunity to demonstrate a mature response to a lesson about life's inevitable disappointments.
We've moved on. Garrett has already put in his vote for our next reality restaurant. Any guesses?
It figures.
* Really. If you go to the trouble of painting the primitive sketches and hanging the bones on the walls, you might reconsider the 80s and 90s mix. "If You Don't Know Me By Now" and animal skins should share a venue only if Ricky Gervais is involved.
Although, on second thought, Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" probably did have a place on the hit list.
What a disappointment. Do they invite comments?
ReplyDeleteExcellent post. If anything, the boys will become discerning food and restaurant critics. Wonder what they will say about McD's playplace after Prague? Well, I can't wait to read about the next culinary adventure to "argument," in any case.
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drea
That IS a disappointment! They could make it so much more (and be much more popular!). That Restaurant "Argument" always made me laugh - have you been there? The menu looks gorgeous! http://www.argument-restaurant.cz/home-page/
ReplyDelete@ Mom ~ Customer service is about Job 16 here, if it's even on the list, so I doubt anyone fields comments from patrons.
ReplyDelete@ drea ~ If B&G were offered a chance to go to McD's PlayPlace they would say, "Bring. It. On."
@ Morna ~ Karl and I definitely want to get to Argument, but it may be a bit out of the price range of what we're thinking about for the boys. Having said that, if they actually *eat* their food, that's more of a bargain. :)
More about the cavemen ~ Pravek has about 5 restaurants around the city. Perhaps the one near us is the dud in the bunch. There's another that has a floor show (complete with cavemen) and your meal is served without utensils. We knew we weren't going to that one, but still hoped for a little more of a Neanderthal vibe.
Where was Fred Flintstone adn his bronosaurus burgers?
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