1 post tagged “one market”

I've been lax at updating you, but with my job came less time for cooking. It's been all about fast meals for the most part.

However, I have a couple of recipes I'll share soon including a recipe for some absolutely fantastic chicken enchiladas (different from the last ones I posted).

For now, allow me to share with you my experience at the company holiday party at One Market in San Francisco.

Our holiday party was at One Market Restaurant.

The food was excellent. The butternut squash soup was incredible and the steak with port wine reduction was actually flavorful (sometimes they suffer when you have large groups).

The problem, however, was the service. They seemed to just not be prepared for a group our size. It took 40 minutes between the soup course and the salad course alone. Dinner was supposed to start at 7pm. It was a four course dinner. We did not get out of there until around 10:30pm (and we left immediately after eating our cheesecake, so it wasn't a matter of hanging around and conversing). There was tons of grumbling going on because people were hungry and it was taking forever. Jason and I missed our ferry at 9:30pm. Fortunately, our newest engineer - who hasn't started working yet, but was invited - offered to take us home.

On top of this, they had a vegetarian option for the entree. One of the guys at our table was vegetarian and had the "vegetarian" place card and everything. Well, the first course started to come out and they are bringing around bowls with the bacon and mushrooms (so they can ladle the soup over it). Despite the fact that it says right in front of him "VEGETARIAN", they place the bacon-laden bowl in front of him. It took talking to THREE people before someone finally did something about it. One server said, "Oh, I don't know if I can get a bowl without bacon." Come on, lady. Bring an EMPTY BOWL. It's not hard.

So overall, it was fun. Most of my co-workers were plastered. One of our quiet new guys threw us all for a loop when we were talking baseball and I mentioned how I don't like it on TV and prefer to see it live and he blurts out, "That's how I like sex!"

My company also opted to do it at 6pm, after work. Most of us get off at 5pm. This left many of us not enough time to go home and change, but then we had to wait at the restaurant for an hour before the room was ready. The bar was overly crowded already and there wasn't any room to get a drink and stand inside.

So, overall, fun but a pain in the rear.