Hello, Kitty!: Happy Birthday, Hubby! (Part II

I HEART MASTRO’S…and as they say, it was definitely an unparalleled dining experience.

Thursday night I made dinner reservations at Mastro’s. My Mister has been wanting to go and since we were leaving Friday night, Thursday night it was. Little did we know, Thursday nights are one of their busiest nights. :/

Our reservation was for 9:15pm. We checked in at about 8:50pm, hung out at the bar and watched the Olympics as we waited for our name to be called. 9:15 came and went…then so did 9:20, 9:25, 9:30. I checked in with the hostess and inquired about how much longer our wait was going to be. He explained that tables would be leaving soon and that we would be seated as soon as possible. Long story short, turns out that “as soon as possible” meant 9:45pm, which was 30 minutes past our reservation. I have to admit, I did tell the hostess that I was disappointed in the long wait, but because the birthday boy was calm and composed as usual, I didn’t make a big deal of it. As we were being seated, the hostess said that they would comp our dessert due to the wait. I politely said thank you but knew that when I called to make our reservation, I explained we were celebrating a birthday and they had already committed to a birthday treat on the house…

Our server Debbie apologized for the wait, chatted with us for a bit about the menu, then took our appetizer order. Shortly before our appetizers came out, she informed us that they would be giving us a shrimp cocktail appetizer to compensate for the wait earlier, along with giving us our mushroom appetizer for free! OK, so now the night is starting to turn around folks! The appetizers were SUPER yummie and somewhere between the appetizers and main course, the general manager, Franco Checchini, introduced himself and also apologized for our extensive wait.

Dinner was superb but we were so full from the bread and appetizers, that we didn’t even finish half of our meal! Debbie then came to prepare us for dessert and kindly substituted the birthday chocolate cake for their infamous buttercake (thanks for the tip, Wendy!). It was DEEEELISH, however, we only finished a third of our third course. :P

Brace yourselves friends because then the unimaginable happened. We were getting all our tasty goodness boxed to go and Debbie tells us that Franco has picked up our tab. WHAT?!?!?! Yup, you heard right…our.entire.tab. Crazy, right?!?!? To put some perspective on it, our bill would have been upwards of $200+.

Hooray for Franco and Mastro’s!! You don’t often find service like that anymore. Proves that God is FOR SURE omnipresent and delivers his blessings in all shapes and sizes!

Mastro’s anyone? Definitely a steakhouse worth supporting.

Wishing you all a great start to the week!