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The Enormous Room (Restaurant Peeves)
Jan. 17th, 2004 09:29 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
enochs-fable.livejournal.comWhat are your pet peeves when it comes to dining out in Boston?
My friends and I went out Friday night to this place we'd always wanted to try, The Enormous Room in Cambridge, right near Central Square.
The idea was cool - findable only by the elephant on the door (there's no name) you go upstairs to find lots of low glass tables surrounded by low couches and chairs. We ordered the Enormous Plate, which was Middle Eastern/African food - hummous, olive, skewered meats and such. The food was delicious - but the 7 of us paid $14 a pop and left hungry (only 6 skewers of meat total!). I think the problem was that I was under the impression we were going to a restaurant, while instead it was more of a bar and club.
The lighting was so dim that we literally could barely see what we were eating. The background music (before the DJ kicked it up another notch) was so loud that it was near impossible to hold a conversation without raising your voice - and in a huge single room with everyone else doing the same thing? Pain. I felt really bad for the hearing-impaired friend with us - he basically couldn't hear anything. After about half an hour, neither could we.
Even when I was in college, I was never one for the bar scene - just too soft-spoken to be easily heard, and not patient enough to lipread others in dark rooms.
My friends and I went out Friday night to this place we'd always wanted to try, The Enormous Room in Cambridge, right near Central Square.
The idea was cool - findable only by the elephant on the door (there's no name) you go upstairs to find lots of low glass tables surrounded by low couches and chairs. We ordered the Enormous Plate, which was Middle Eastern/African food - hummous, olive, skewered meats and such. The food was delicious - but the 7 of us paid $14 a pop and left hungry (only 6 skewers of meat total!). I think the problem was that I was under the impression we were going to a restaurant, while instead it was more of a bar and club.
The lighting was so dim that we literally could barely see what we were eating. The background music (before the DJ kicked it up another notch) was so loud that it was near impossible to hold a conversation without raising your voice - and in a huge single room with everyone else doing the same thing? Pain. I felt really bad for the hearing-impaired friend with us - he basically couldn't hear anything. After about half an hour, neither could we.
Even when I was in college, I was never one for the bar scene - just too soft-spoken to be easily heard, and not patient enough to lipread others in dark rooms.
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