One of my coworkers recommended a tapas restaurant called Catalan. Being single and in a fairly metropolitan city, it’s difficult to make dinner for yourself when you have such a fantastic variety of food available at such reasonable prices.
I went to Catalan with another coworker and his girlfriend who came into town for the weekend. Valet only parking–something to be aware of if you don’t like handing your car off. We walked in without reservations and the host told us that we could eat outside, but the table would need to be available within an hour or we could eat inside and we’d have an hour and a half. So that was somewhat of a poor experience, but we didn’t have reservations so expected.
We sat down and ordered a bunch of appetizers and a bottle of wine. And then we get another bottle of wine for dinner. By the end of the night the time limit didn’t matter and we have the general manager’s card and floor managers kept coming by asking how things are. It turns out that if you know about good wine and drink it, you quickly get the attention of others who appreciate wine.
In the end it was a tremendous experience and I suspect that anytime we go back there, we will always have a table.
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