Well, that was a learning experience.
Sep. 9th, 2007 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabWe had tickets to see Gaelic Storm at the Recher Theater in Towson (center north area of the Baltimore Beltway, home of Towson State University, about 20 minutes from our house) this evening. We went. "Doors open at 7" so we got there a couple minutes before 7. Well, first, we went in - and there were no seats. It's just a big open area with a stage at one end and bars on three sides. Not even folding chairs. Not even bar stools at the bars. So I guess one is supposed to treat it as a bar that happens to have entertainment - but that's not what we expected when we bought *tickets* - not something bars usually sell - to a place called a *theater*. So now we know: always ask first if the theater has seats. Then. We waited. Since we didn't feel like drinking alcohol, there was nothing to do but wait. No one had any idea of when the band would actually come on. Finally sometime after 8 p.m. and heading toward 8:30, we decided we had been standing around watching other people drink for long enough, and we left. Not having seen nor heard the band. We asked for a refund but they wouldn't give us one. Well. Guess where's one place we won't be going again no matter WHO is playing?
We did eat supper in Towson after that. We ate at a sushi place - apparently Towson has some sort of municipal ordinance that says that any restaurant MUST include a sushi bar. This particular one was called Olive & Sesame, which sounds more Middle Eastern to me. But it served Chinese food as well as sushi, and, in particular, what made us choose it even after discovering that it was not Middle Eastern, was that they had a section of the menu devoted to what they called "Revolution Diet" - steamed food with no salt, sugar, or cornstarch, served with sauces on the side so that one could control how little or how much sauce to add. So I got shrimp and veggies, with a Szechwan (Sechuan, whatever) sauce, and used only a minute amount of it, and thus had almost no sodium at all other than that which occurs naturally in shrimp. Great idea!
But boo on the Recher "Theater." Boo hiss.
We did eat supper in Towson after that. We ate at a sushi place - apparently Towson has some sort of municipal ordinance that says that any restaurant MUST include a sushi bar. This particular one was called Olive & Sesame, which sounds more Middle Eastern to me. But it served Chinese food as well as sushi, and, in particular, what made us choose it even after discovering that it was not Middle Eastern, was that they had a section of the menu devoted to what they called "Revolution Diet" - steamed food with no salt, sugar, or cornstarch, served with sauces on the side so that one could control how little or how much sauce to add. So I got shrimp and veggies, with a Szechwan (Sechuan, whatever) sauce, and used only a minute amount of it, and thus had almost no sodium at all other than that which occurs naturally in shrimp. Great idea!
But boo on the Recher "Theater." Boo hiss.
