Just came back from my niece's birthday dinner. She was announcing to everyone "birthday girl".
The waiter however got on my last nerve. He just wasn't paying attention. And when you'd try to flag him down he was nowhere to be found. I asked him something simple like if he could light the candle. And it took him like 10 minutes. He was doing all kinds of stupid things (cleaning off tables that were not needed by others). And it turns out he had the lighter in his pocket and it would have taken 2 seconds.
My niece was saying, "where's the light?"
I had gone there to make the reservation since i was passing by the other day (to the same guy). ANd i mentioned the birthday thing. But i didn't know we were brining a cake and he didn't mention there was a charge to bring one. Luckily his boss waived the fee since it never occured to me there would be a charge (we were 11 people so it would have added up). This is not a fancy place who is trying to act like a fancy place.
I had ravioli with rosee sauce (which was on their menu online but not at the restaurant). although apparently they serve it. Then why not put it on the menu?

I had really been looking forward to it for days.