Sat 9th Jan 2010
Celebrated my birthday with a movie and a meal at a local Italian Restaurant `The Casa Italia`. In the 20 or so years that I have been frequenting the ` Casa`, not much has changed - apart from the prices that is. Same decor, same menu...and with the addition of a few new faces, virtually the same staff...quite an accomplishment when you think about it. The staff obviously enjoy their work, although this doesn't always translate to the customer - in all fairness this could be due to the high turnover and being rushed off their feet most nights. Absent a smile maybe, but courteous and efficient to a fault after many years of symbiosis. The allure of the `Casa` is in it's predictability really, and the fact that it's good value for money (VFM) when your on a budget - which we were. The food may be pre-prepared but it's palatable, you know what your getting and your not going to be dissapointed - which is quite often the case with most new places we have tried. After the Casa we quite literally & figuratively speaking hit `The Road`...we had waited all year to see this movie and it didn't dissapoint - a good adaptation of the book which is quite rare.
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