So last Friday, I sent a message to my team, restarted my office computer and took the afternoon off. I looked at the sweet bear and said, let's go have lunch. There is a new French Restaurant in old town Alexandria, but alas the door was locked they are not open for lunch. A couple of blocks later I remembered that there is a hole-in-the-wall French Restaurant on Washington less than a block off of King Street that has been there forever. I had never been in.
Oh my, it was good. I had a cold salad with beets, and a quiche, the sweet bear had mushroom caps stuffed with crab, and bouillabaisse. It was amazing. The service was good, the food was fabulous. We should do this more often. I could learn to live like this.
*A truly evil policy.
Impromptu lunches or dinners are the best....and good for the soul. You'll soon have all the time to do just this.
ReplyDeleteMore time for me
DeleteWhat a fun-looking place and I love J's 2-tone polo shirt. I worked at university's that limited how much vacation you could take at one time, no matter how much you accrued. However, you could accrue forever and get a payout for those days when you left. (Not that I ever had half a minute of vacation time remaining on the books.)
ReplyDeleteThe policy was an accounting trick to balance a budget one year,
DeleteWhy we abandoned the eminently practical custom of putting the napkin over the shirt I'll never understand. It remains acceptable in a number of European countries when eating something that is likely to drip and stain.
DeleteGee, I entirely missed Mitchell's point.
DeleteJ: SG would miss the bib napkin completely.
DeleteI agree. The leave policy is very unfair but I do understand why it is in place.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the restaurant menu. It doesn't have prices but the food does look good. I have no idea what a prefix menu is. It seems like what we call a banquet menu but not quite. Set meal might be the right phrase, as you may get when flying a long distance, a choice of three for each course.
Prefix is a very French concept, you pay a fixed price that includes 2 or 3 or 4 courses and often coffee or wine.
Deleteprix fixe = fixed price
DeleteLe Refuge looks like a great place and when you retire you will be able to seek refuge there every week if you are so inclined.
ReplyDeleteMy parents went out to lunch 5 or 6 times a week in retirement,
DeleteSometimes those hole-in-the-wall places are the best! Plus there's certainly a lot of interesting bric-a-brac to look at on the restaurant's walls.
ReplyDeleteThe restaurant has been there for years, and it shows.
DeleteI love the hole-in-the-wall spots because more often than not they are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got to have a vacation day getaway!
I need to take a couple of days a month, until I get paid out for it.
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