so disappointed!

i need to mention first that I'm pretty serious about food. so as a christmas present, i received a giftcard to the restaurants macaroni grill/on the border/ chilis/ and this italian place in little italy. after i got off work today, i was dead tired. staying out late for fatch's birthdays + work in the am= not enough sleep. plus, it was a busy day and i even ended up going to the poway store to drop off supplies for them (but i got mini lemon-poppyseed bundt cakes in return, my fave!). needless to say, i was not in the mood for making lunch when i remember my gift card. i like macaroni grill, so i thought oj and i would go there for lunch. after i got back from italy, i havent really been up for eating italian food (although its one of my all-time faves) either because i had too much of it when i was there, or that i can't like the italian food here bc i always end up comparing it to the food and italy, and guess who wins? but the few times i went to macaroni grill, i remember not thinking their food was wack, and I distinctly remember liking their bread, olive oil, and balsalmic vinegar that they serve while you wait for your food (i havent been there to eat in over 1.5 years). so I thought, what the hell, its a free meal anyways!

oj and i get there, and get seated & our server brings out the bread, oil and vinegar....plus theres crayons to doodle on the butcher papered tables! everythings good so far! we get our menus, and i actually want to get the warm spinach salad and the stuffed mushroom appetizer, but i'm lured away by their "healthy selections" since i'm supposedly eating healthy now right? i end up getting a whole wheat pasta dish, capellini tre pomodoro, and oj gets chicken parmesan. when our food comes out, i am served a bowl of penne. um... excuse me, didn't i order capellini?? my server tells me that my pasta is the whole wheat pasta...oh, i see, no whole wheat capellini =( alright, whatever, i'm sure my food will still be good, right? WRONG! it was like boiled down tomato slop, with too many inedible whole garlic cloves, with over-cooked pasta. it was like i was eating food taken right out of the lunch trays from united airlines. seriously. i didnt even eat 1/4 of it, and just finished the bread off instead. but with my crayons, i wrote no mi piache capelllini tre pomodoro! right on the table! in the end, i ate bread, and a mini bundt cake in the car for lunch. =(