Just last week infact.
The oldest wanted to go to london for a couple of days sight seeing for her tenth birthday last week. So we booked a couple of days down there from the BH monday onwards.
Her birthday was on the tues and we headed down to regent street to let her select which dodgy themed place she wanted to celebrate her birthday. She chose TGI fridays. Now I've nothing against these places as you generally get a decent burger and friendly enough service and it gives me a chance to get drunk whilst out with the missus and kids. Things didn't go well from the start.......

They didn't have any draught beer as a kick off so we had to drink bottles at 3.20 a pop. HMMMMMM. We also had a bunch of leary drunken business types who were smashed on the two for one cocktails at the bar and may aswell have been sitting in the no smoking section that we were in whilst they chain smoked. Then my burger arrived that was supposed to have onion rings but actually had 'rings of onion'. When questioned the waiter assured me that this was correct. The burgers also looked about as good as the 2.99 ones from the Sizzler chain of pubs. Not good for 10 quid a pop. We were kepy waiting for ages aswell due to our waiter arsing about with a table of girls rather than doing his job. And the portion of beans that youngest was supposed to get arrived after he'd finished his meal. Top!. This might not all sound to bad but we'd spent the days before being turned away from decent estabilshments because we had the kids with us and I was well pee'd off that we were being rail roaded into having to dine in these rip off joints.

To top it all off. We decided to return to the hotel and get some beer from an off licence on the way. The guy behind the till obviously had a 'tourist' button on there and tried to charge us 13 quid for 8 cans of fosters. Tosser!
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 28 Apr 2006, 15:19, Reply)