A former ski bud, Heidi and two of my new amgios from Cambridge Anya and Katy, and of course the new roooms, Courtney.
The conversation was on par but the service not so much.
I do have to say the Bread at Sonsie was heeps better than the molded yeast Court and I had at the Five Star Carmen's last week.
Wine time (my favorite time) We ordered a Pinot Grigio and another interesting white wine that Katy, who took a recent wine course at Cornel recommended. Lets just say, for myself, the random conversation, the bread, and the wine were by far the ideal moments from my dining experience this Wednesday evening.
First of all, I like to order APPs (appetizers) at the beginning of the meal and this was PERFECT because my Courtney was running late so the APPs would keep us satisfied until her arrival. Unfortunately, The waitress peaced for a bit until Court showed up which was a bit bizarre seeing we had a bottle of white wine UN chilled in the middle of our table.
Anyways the delishhhh Calamari and not so pretty Asparagus are the APPs we ordered. For the million pieces of Calamari, Sonsie gave us a tea cup of dipping sauce. Comon' recent college students we want all we can get. We asked for more, but clearly, to no ones amazement our waitress forgot...embarrassing and quite amateur for this popular restaurant on Newbury.
Our entrees were ready and the waitress was trying to quickly take away our plates. She aggressively grabbed Heidi's plate when she was in the process of placing the fried baby octopus in her mouth. (this was not the first time the waitress/busser was trying to take away Heidi's plates when she was not yet finished with her course... it is like HELLO no one else is in the restaurant its 915pm on a wednesday!!!! AS WELL AS try to redeem yourself from the prior mistakes you have already made during our dinner).
Well I usually order the veggie spring rolls and salad but decided to go with the Snapper.
It was one word vomit.
Waaaaay overcooked. there was legit, a scooped out el dente white rice figure on the plate. ( if i wanted white rice i would have paid 50 cents at the take out Chinese joint about a two second jog away). There was also this green leaf on the plate. Initially, it looked like grilled asparagus, but then i thought to myself why is there just one, single, asparagus on my plate. It was a green feather of some sort. I ate it but, lets be honest, it was the BEST thing on MY PLATE!
I could not even send the plate back because i would have straight up told them to just take it off the menu. (I should have gone with the Veggie Spring Rolls).
The manager of Sonsie wondered over to ask us about our meal after the waitress piled up all our plates and then fell, ultimately, embarrassing herself.
I gave him props for coming over and hollering that he and "his wife" just moved to Massachusetts. Usually, when restaurant managers come over to five fine, young women like ourselves, they refuse to add their significant other.
I was silent (unlike me, but i just met two of the girls at the table and did not want to be judged because of my aggressive eating habits and criticism that will never go unnoticed by most people i dine with)
Lesson: Although, i say go out of your comfort box at a favorite restaurant, sometimes you leave regretting to do so because that ruins all prior dining experiences you had at that restaurant. Sorry Sonsie!
ALSO, since we had 5 dining guests, we had two bottles of wine, about 2.5glasses each. In the end it was about 13$ a person for wine. Cheap! And worth it because we ordered very delightful beverages which made the T ride home lots faster because i was people watching and did not care who saw.
Danielle MArie
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