restaurant week

Last night a group of us girls went to restaurant week at the oval room. We had a reservation for 8 people for 7pm. We made these reservations weeks ago, and I called to find out if they had legit vegetarian options (meaning options i'd eat). The answer was only on thier normal menu, but that was fine.

So we show up at 6:45 because we are timely girls, and they tell us it will be 5 or 10 minutes. Thats ok. So at 7:15 (30 minutes later) they tell us that the table we are supposed to be at is "just getting ready to leave" and that he knew they'd be out momentarily since they had an appointment at the whitehouse in 10 minutes.

15 minutes later he assures us they are getting ready to stand up and leave because the president is waiting for them. YEAH, we almost believe that the president is waiting for some random family eating at the oval room. so we start talking loudly about how its a lame lie and rather condescending and that we dislike gwb anyway since he has sent our friends away to war so we clearly dont think someone going to the white house to meet with him is overly important or impressive.

He over hears this and comes over and appologizes again for the wait and then offers us champagne, which clearly we take.

The meal itself wasnt anything special. Dessert sucked. And the veggie options sucked. They had lied about having additional items on their menu from the normal menu and I was stuck eatting chestnut ravioli. ew. who likes chestnuts.

Basically I do not recomend the Oval Room.