How not to pick a restaurant for Dinner

It all started all wrong. My wife had a bad day at work the day before and I thought what better way to cheer her up but to have a good meal at a nice restaurant. Somehow, carb loading does make people happy but Atkins denies that. Anyways, we were thinking about what and where to eat the whole day and my stupid mouth had to say Prego at Raffles City.

Before meeting my wife outside the restaurant, I met my other wife Tasty Bites for a quick caffeine shot and he told me not to go to Prego. I knew that. I trust him. But somehow his other suggestion for a restaurant was closed, I mean never to open again because it was CLOSED. So we had no choice but to end up at Prego.

Some background, I have been to Prego so many times when I was younger that I feel that I know the place by heart. I remembering ordering the cabonara and hated it because I hate cheese when I was 13. And I remember Prego being on the third floor of the Raffles City Shopping mall instead of the swanky corner that it is situated now. And recently, my colleague, which I shall call that person adnil mis recently went there and thought it wasn't that bad. I like my colleague and I think my colleague is a great person and friend.

But my wife and I left the place more disappointed then anything. The service was outstanding, deco was okay. There were alot of man couples and hetro-sexual couples, which made people watching interesting. The bread was somewhat warm the first time round but cold the second. We had a budget of $80 last night and we blew it by $7.

We ordered the calzone, the seafood pasta with tomato sauce and the lemon based sauced salad. First thing's first, the calzone was average at best. The one at Al Forno was much better. It was too cheesy for my liking and there wasn't enough tomato sauce in the calzone. The sausages in the calzone were not done correctly I thought. Instead of putting in cooked sausages, it seemed as if they were thrown in raw, so the texture of the sausages inside the calzone tasted steamed rather than tangy and juicy. The seafood pasta was average. I thought I could make something like that but charge at a much lower price. The salad. Well, I don't know how you say it but its probably one of the worst things I have tasted in my life. All you can taste is lemon juice and the blue cheese had a funky taste to it. It just tasted like vegetables with tons of lemon squeezed over it .

We declined to order more desserts but I think I should listen to Mr. and Mrs. Tasty Bites and my previous experience at Prego was probably right. My wife felt better after the meal not because it was a good meal but because we were laughing at each other while having a fake quarrel. Oh, the good times.

P.S. mama mia merda Prego cucina.