AUTHOR: Robert TITLE: Foreign Cinema is only foreign if you go there for good food DATE: 9/26/2003 06:23:00 PM ----- BODY: Yeah, so... Foreign Cinema was a huge disappointment. Uh, let me correct that. It was a huge TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR disappointment. Our waiter was rude and gave me attitude from almost the moment we sat down. When I ordered a cheese dish from the "Fun to Share" section of the menu, then I ordered a salad, he asked in a snotty tone "Oh, so the fromage is for the table?" No, asshole, I'm just fat. I'm a huge fat motherfucker, therefore the fromage is just for me. Big fat me, you little short bald fat fuck. Just for the record, I saw no "fun" in the cheese. I really didn't feel like saying "Wheeeee! This is FUN!" while sharing the cheese... although there was nothing wrong with the cheese. Maybe the kitchen forgot to insert the essence of fun or something. When Adam asked about a particular dish, the waiter... and I'm not kidding here... the waiter said "I have no idea what you're talk.... I mean, show me where you're looking on the menu" to Adam. Neither of us are idiots. We've both been waiters. We were going to tip him decently (and did, as a matter of fact) and he was just being a little prick for the fun of it. I asked for a nice wine, he suggested this swill that they called a "Our Shiraz" that was acidic as all hell and tasted like crap. I drank it anyway and ordered a grudge glass of the merlot at 12 bucks per glass. I had the "Curry Scented Chicken" and adam had the carpaccio. Adam ended up sending his meal back to the kitchen and I finished mine. Actually, that's the only thing the waiter did right, when Adam asked to have something else other than the Carpaccio, he was gracious and just replaced the dish without fuss, which was nice, so he deserved the tip, but the rest of his service was mediocre at best. Oh, and if you're going there for the movie, don't. The movie is simply shown on the wall as a sort of "moving art" and no sound is provided for the experience. You can only see the movie through a plastic tarp, there are only a few seats where you can even see the movie, and its really just a moving piece of artwork on the wall. Adam and I thought we could do this restaraunt a whole lot better. We thought -- if you put a little thought into the menu, had some simple dishes named or designed based on movies, and served simple things like "Marilyn Merlot" and that kind of thing, you'd do very well with the menu... as it was, the menu was pretentious and full of crap that not a lot of people want to eat, which explains why the restaraunt was less than half full. We won't go here again, which is a shame since we spend quite a bit of money month to month on restaraunts. We also can't recommend it to friends. The menu was just too pretentious and the waiter was just too full of himself. And the wine was crap. Sorry, we'd love to be able to reccommend. Especially since its one of the city's "Top 10" according to Open Table. ----- --------