Earl’s Part Two

My grandma took Shannon and me to Earl's for dinner. I find that it's so difficult to take decent photographs in a restaurant. Every restaurant photo I've taken so far has been awful. The lighting is so different and I feel like an ass taking multiple pictures in a restaurant, so I usually end up with something I think will look half decent and it's really flashed out or blurry. This would be the second time we've done dinner there this year, the first being when we got back from Edmonton and had the Blurry Bento Box. Blurry, like all my restaurant pictures, you see. Usually the food is decent and the service is horrible. This time, the food was sub par and the service was surprising.

I ordered the cedar plank salmon with a curry sauce, which came with goat cheese mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables. The vegetables turned out to be about 1/4 of a tiny beet, 2 slices of zucchini and 2 extremely dried out roasted carrots. The mashed potatoes were very good (how can you go wrong with mashed potatoes and goat cheese?) but the vegetable side was just sad and the salmon wasn't really doing it for me. When our waitress asked how our food was, I simply said it was "just okay." Then, she went away and took my whole entree off the bill; a 100% discount. Considering that my dish was basically half the bill, that was quite a surprise.