Restaurant-Lot 81

Lot 81 on West Morena Blvd is not too bad. We ate there first earlier this year for lunch and it was good, and Sharlynn loved the fries that are thin cut with a hint of rosemary.

But this time we ate dinner and it was not quite as good. First off...don't keep using old menus. I tried to order three different wines, and to each the answer was, "That isn't on the menu any more." Well it sure as hell was on my menu, I didn't make these names up! OK, I finally just had some ginger ale. Then came ordering dinner...that seemed to go fine, but I ordered the House Bowl, that has chicken and Italian sausage, peppers and other good things on penne. WEll, after my order was taken to the kitchen I was told..."Oh, we are out of sausage, you can't have that."

Heavy sigh. I ended up with something similar with shrimp, and it was pretty good, but not great at all. Our friend Emily had the honey glazed salmon, and liked it. But they did not tell her what the side was, and, as she has had unfortunate incidents with wild mushrooms...she was not able to eat her veggies. Seth had the filet mignon, which he said was a bit tough. Sharlynn had the boneless ribeye which she liked.

All in all not a terrible experience, but the constant, "We don't have..." was very annoying. The servers were very nice, but they jsut had to deliver these messages that were unsuitable to a "finer" restaurant.

I will try it again at lunch to see how that goes, but I can't really recommend it for dinner until they fix these problems.