ben-INIS-simo

Yes , you read the title right... we were INIS! You see, Jp gave another effort to make V-day special apart from our planned "post-valentine dinner with his couple-cousins". My fiance took a day off from work and asked me to have dinner with him on V-day last Monday so I went to check out some restaurants near our area (will be coming from work so I opted not be caught up in another traffic). I chose benissimo... near... the place looks intimate and I heard food was good (according to rein). So I made the reservation 3 days before v-day and I even asked them to fax me their offer for valentines... specified the seats, etc.

Hmmm...

When we entered Benissimo, I was already frustrated with how rowdy the place was. The music was so loud and so the guests had to make their voices louder for them to be heard. ( c'mon its valentines day, you should have played a soft music instead!) waiters... just about 4 of them so definitely not enough to serve everyone. I told Jp "kawawa sila". Some of the guests (including us) were pissed already because their orders were not yet taken. I refused to be mad because if I do, for sure Jp will be pissed also. So I really tried to be patient as much as possible. Finally , I was able the attention of one lady waiter. So she took our orders REALLY FAST... which frightened us both. "Nakuha kaya nya?"

We waited....

And waited...

For another 30 minutes or so...

one hour...

Its almost 9:30pm when the waiter came with our appetizer- but oh my! they gave us fresh oysters instead of the baked oysters that we ordered. Ok, wrong one so we had to wait again... Soup was not served, salad was not served nor our drinks... we gave up...

I told Jp that we rather leave because 1) I am really hungry 2) That one really got into my nerves already 3) Place wasn't very valentin-ey at all... I told Jp its ok that we eat in a fastfood, I don't mind anymore.

We the went to the cashier and had our orders canceled while the rest of the people were looking really pissed already. I cant afford to spoil the whole night for that one. The lady in the cashier just said that the kitchen wasn't able to accommodate all our orders. Oh my, I said, they could've have the soup and salad served! We were there 8pm and its almost 10pm!

And I really don't get it. They offered a valentine special set meal and the food were not ready?

So there, we moved to RECIPES instead. Oh...dinner! We were so hungry...

We had to laugh it off instead.... Jp said "buti nalang engaged na tayo!" "kundi baka awayin mo ko!" "at buti nalang ikaw yun nagreserve at di ako! kundi maiinis ka na naman sakin kasi palpak!"

We drove home and a bouquet of flowers was waiting for me when we reached the house... I handed him my gifts and I told him " because of the hassle that we had to go through tonight I got you a spa treat baby!"

...and he loved the dice btw!