RTP-area local music and culture

[Kevin Grealey <kgrealey AT mckinney-silver.com>]

Ross,
You didn't mention that I was there.


> From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:53:52 -0500
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: eGullet founder/author dines at Federal
> 
> They must recognize your high-caliber ranting skills and treat you with
> kid gloves, then. The rest of us are periodically treated to the Amazing
> Diappearing Waitress, and just a couple of weeks ago I had a bowl of
> soup that took 20 minutes to materialize & was more-or-less room
> temperature when it arrived.
> 
> At most other restaurants, these experiences might be enough for me to
> write the joint off, given that it's a 45-minute drive from my house,
> but the rest of the time the food is so fucking great (and when it's
> good, the service is fine), and the beer selection so pleasant, and yes,
> the prices so reasonable (although the food is so good I don't even
> consider the prices) that I keep going back, *and* steering other people
> to it.
> 
> Late lunch on Saturday seems to be a pretty reliable time to go, and it
> works out pretty well with matinees at the Carolina, which despite its
> own set of quirks is my favorite theater in the Triangle. They both seem
> pretty quintessentially New Durham, in fact. Or I guess the American
> Tobacco Mall/Southpoint North is that now?
> 
> Anyway. I love Federal, despite its quirks, and isn't that what True
> Love is all about?
> 
> xo
> 
> Ross
> 
> p.s. less black pepper, please!
> 
> Chris Calloway wrote:
>> Also, whether Abby or anybody else, I've never had anything but
>> fantastically great and friendly service at The Federal, even from
>> the neophyte first-day on the job servers. I'm at the point where I
>> just don't see the need to go anywhere else but The Federal if I can
>> get there before the kitchen closes and my financial goal in life is
>> to get to the point of making enough money again where I can eat
>> there every day. The Federal just excels in every category: food,
>> atmosphere, value, and service. And excels in those categories to a
>> degree and at a consistency that just seems a little surreal. Really,
>> there seems to be some magic pixie dust scattered over the place.
>> They do a superhuman job.
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