Ordering take out to Hotel rooms, right or wrong?

Mrs. mdvipond and I order out for pizza just about everytime we go away. We even did it at Galley Bay in Antigua (a 5 star all-inclusive) a few years ago. That certainly conjured up an array of incredulous looks from the staff.

Man cannot live on 'fine dining' alone, and sometimes sticking a robe and HBO on and pigging out on double-pepperoni just has to be done...

Originally posted by McCoy
Gosh, I feel the opposite. I hate eating in my hotel room.. it's like an admission I have given up! I would much rather dine alone in a nice restaurant, with the potential for human contact and making some friends.

Well, I think it depends. Some places I will eat alone, but if I do I'll usually sit at the bar and snack. Like you say, you make some friends that way. If often depends on the bar staff as well... if they welcome you and make time for you, it's great.

But in a formal restaurant setting, all seperate tables and what have you, I think it feels a bit weird.

Mike

Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting eating alone in a really fancy joint - half the fun of that level of fine dining is sharing it with someone.
Ummmm... I was in Oxford for the last few days, and found some people to go out to the Loch Fyne restaurant. Was lovely, and met some great people. And much preferable to 'an early night'...

[Darren Wheeler]

Sadly, most resturants shove the single diner into pre-selected places. They are, in decending order:

As close as possible to the toilets - any closer and you'll have personal room.[:(!]

In the darkest, dingiest corner they can find.

In front of the main door so other diners can feel better about themselves. That and point you out to their children/rest of the party as an object of sympathy (never get asked to join them).

The other favourite trick it to put you on a big table by yourself so you feel really guilty and leave soon or make you share with someone who has no concept of table manners.[V]

Bitter? Moi?

Too bleedin' right!!!:D

Originally posted by Darren Wheeler
Sadly, most resturants shove the single diner into pre-selected places.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's about how the establishment treats the single diner.

Mike

I have never been "hit on" at a hotel in restaurant I must have been staying in the wrong places[:p]

I'm stuck in the only hotel in town in smalltown korea for the next 6 weeks.
The hotel restaurant and room service menu hardly provide a varied and well balanced diet, and sadly I need to get the hotel reception to do the ordering in for me as the local take-outs barely speak english, and I even less Korean.
Fortunately there are at least 5 different pizza take-outs in town, so I can get a varied and balanced diet that way.

And having to suffer this after spending a month in the culinary dream world that is Singapore. [n]

[honey lamb]

Shame the Lamb was out of town...

Indeed it was. [:#]

Unfortunately you were staying where Business meets Studentland and really on the edge of the city. If you had gone out of the hotel to the left and gone to the Crow's Nest you would have had a reasonably priced meal AND been able to get something from the offie there.

I know though what everyone means when they talk about singletons dining. although I met up with friends while in California, I also had one or two days when I dined alone and was made to feel distinctly odd

[Darren Wheeler]

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