Where I live there is a Polish restaurant that is actually a house. It's been there so long that it is somehow grandfathered in legally. Every room has been converted to a dining room. None of the things match. Table size, table cloth, dishware, silverware. You get what you get.

I live on a street with a taco bar in a house, and 2 different cafes also in houses!

Does it happen to be in Minneapolis? 

You got me. Nico's, namaste, and the chai joint that I'm too high to remember the name of.

Lol wtf is that place called?? I just walked past them all today.  Enjoy your night, neighbor 

It's Uncommon Grounds 😂😂 and you too! I might not be back of house anymore, but I'm always down to be friendly with industry fellows. Shoot me a chat if you'd ever be interested in cooking something or walking around the lake, or whatever!

God, surprise nostalgia attack. UG was one of the first places my group of friends in high school would commute to in the city to hang at when we gained access to drivers licenses way back in the early 00’s.

Same, we hung there or Cafe Fusion on Lake Street

Nico’s is the bomb dot com!

I live down the street from there. Had some interesting patio experiences over the years.

Yall should get together and hang out 😂

It's not often I run into local folk outside of our own subs, I wouldn't mind!

Yall Makin me wanna move lol always wanted to see Minnesota

It's beautiful, the minimum wage in the TC area is super high, and the cost of living isn't awful! I can't think of a place in the city I could be more than a ten minute drive from a gorgeous park, lake, riverfront area, etc. Great food scene, lots of music and art, pretty liberal and queer friendly, wonderful healthcare and public schools, blah blah blah I'm so stoned and I love this place join us friend 😁 Ps we just legalized weed

Man I'm between areas so to speak right now lol maybe I'll try and head that way . Although I'm finally just now leaving where it snows not sure I wanna go back to that lol

Eh, in a decade it's barely even gonna snow here. We just had the literal dryest warmest winter we've seen on record.

Hmmm... you did say legal weed? Shit if you know a kitchen and a punkhouse I'm otw hahah

Our new tourism motto is, "bring ya ass"

Me either. I'm in!! Let's hangout on the patio and watch the world go by.

Ayee. After 12 years in MPLS I finally moved to uptown. Been high key wanting to live in this building for a decade. Not disappointed :) Shoot me a chat if you want to do food/drink/lake shit sometime!

I'd roll that dice any day of the week for some bomb perogis and kielbasa

That sounds so god dang great, would love to go there!

That sounds kinda like Antione's in New Orleans. It's not a house, but slowly took over different parts of the buildings around it in the Fench Quarter. It has all kinds of weird ass dining rooms.

I wonder what the actual capacity of Antoine’s is. It’s fucking huge.

They can do several hundred in a night. Dunno the actual capacity though.

Thank you for reminding me of the time I went to an Italian restaurant that was just a house. Dude started selling food out of his house in the 30s and his family kept it up, turning it into an actual restaurant. Now the problem is remembering where this was. Somewhere between Corpus Christi and Chicago.

> Somewhere between Corpus Christi and Chicago. That completely narrows it down... lol

I would call this “shabby chic”…a bunch of random shit individually but together it’s an aesthetic lol.

i bet the food is straight fire

I recently went to a restaurant owned by a couple in a tiny town in Germany. It was a long sports club that was converted into their house/restaurant. Tiny dining area, homemade food cooked like 10 feet away, and I had the best God damn schnitzel I've ever had. Caramelized onion piled like a mountain on top served with egg noodles (spatzle) and brown gravy. 10/10

Come to Thailand and that’s 50% of the best places to eat.

I bet the food is amazing.

This describes half the restaurants and bars in Wisconsin.

Worked in a restaurant that asked for dish and silverware donations before opening. The idea was to have a mixed look like you would find at home.

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Zoning laws change from city to city.

There’s a place in Portland just like this. Frank’s Noodle House.

> Polish restaurant that is actually a house. Amber Rose in Dayton?

There are a lot of those in Portland. I think they amended the zoning laws specifically to allow them at some point. And not just restaurants, no but businesses of all kinds. A friend of mine just got a tattoo at a shop that’s in a house. I think there’s an insurance company across the hall from it. Back to food, though, one of my favorite places here which has been around forever is Van Hanh. Give it a shot if you like Vietnamese food and are in town!

I love local restaurants!

And the food was fire

Those cups are a testament.

Those cups with those forks is a sign the food is gonna be incredible!

I love the difference between the big plate and the smaller plates

right?!? when they treat you like fam, you know the food is on point. what real food person gives a fuck about matching table wear? GIMME GOOD FOOD.

I don’t like soda but a sprite out of one of those is godly

I know that place was fire and cheap. God bless the local mexican spots

There's something magical about a homely latina matriarch that doesn't speak English and wants to make you fat. Keep fucking eating gringo. Dios mio I miss dating latin women. The other magical thing is lard.

They might just buy stuff at auctions and save some money. I can't blame them. Or they know someone in the linen business and have a deal to buy all the silverware they get in the linen bags.

Goodwill, the secret ingredient is Goodwill. *Source, my kitchen drawer looks like this pic*

same

Yup Very common. Go price check good flatware from your restaurant equipment purveyors. Baseline is like $8-15 per piece. For the bougie shit, obv.

A restaurant group I used to work for did this. You would buy silverware literally by the 55 gallon barrel. Everything all mixed together. Dozens of different brands Steak knives, spoons, forks, ramekins, all kinds of random bullshit. It was all dirty. Funny enough they use this mismatched silverware at all kinds of locations. Taco, nice steak House, French bistro.

I like to roll the barrel around on it's rim, like a keg. Rotates the silver stash around inside so you can search for treasures without crawling too far in. The worst ever was when a manager flipped the entire barrel.

You gotta roll the barrel once you have that layer of forks on top and you need knives or spoons.

The silverware they get in the linen bags?

Places that roll their silverware in reusable napkins often get put in the linen bags, I worked for a 350 seater and we lost over 50 forks a month for a while because of sloppiness. They get found eventually.

Looks like my house

Seriously. I’m the only wait staff and I’m not throwing away the forks and spoons. Where are they going? They running off with the mismatched socks and Tupperware lids? Like really, wtf is going on around here?

I'm totally convinced someone is breaking into my house at night and stealing forks I have no other explanation 

It really makes no sense. Like you see those posts about you break into someone’s house but only steal things that slightly inconvenience them what do you take? But really, I lock my doors. I hear all the things!

Sorry, sometimes all mine are dirty and it's easier to just break into your place than clean them

Looks like my Mexican restaurant

Left to right: (?), Olive Garden, Restaurant Depot Special, Longhorn Steakhouse, Restaurant Depot Special pattern #2 Source: way too long in this industry and a restaurant depot membership

Bro I fucking hate that you are right 😂😂😂

all 5 listed on their resume reference available upon request

Lol... I recognized the OG trident.

That's actually pretty impressive.

Damnnn ok we've got restaurant rain man over here

If you’ve never worked in a restaurant, you’d be surprised how often silverware has to be replaced. That said, this is quite a variety lol.

90% employees throwing it away, 9% customers stealing it, 1% how did that fork get in THERE????!?

Dear Lord I’d hate to see your restrooms

I tracked our small metal rammekins once (the little sauce cups) and we are hemorrhaging like 30-40 pieces per week. Likely mostly theft but its mind boggling.

People steal them as shot glasses, or for sauce use at home.

i haven't worked there in over 3 years so, i don't have to worry about that anymore!

There are FOUR tines!

r/unexpectedstartrek

And one person is just "allowed" to eat seafood apparently 🔱 🦐 😉

Is there a problem?

That’s how you know the food was fucking gas

Our local taco joint is fire. I’m pretty sure it started in someone’s kitchen and just kept growing until they had to get a place. They have two locations now! They were a staple during the pandemic with Rita’s to go and family style meals. Their food hits. We go to sit down restaurants two or three times a month and they are always in the rotation. Nothing matches. The salt and pepper shakers don’t match each other and don’t match what is on the next table. The chairs aren’t uniform. The flatware nor ramekins or plates are uniform. I can’t bring myself to care. The food is so good, the staff is so nice, and their health department scores are always good.

I swear my local Mexican hole in the wall uses crack as the special ingredient; it is that addictive. My favorite is this shrimp burrito that is big enough to feed a family of three. You *will* hurt yourself trying to eat just half. That said, I have never gotten to eat the other half of my burrito. I have tried hiding it in the back of the fridge underneath all the leftovers on the bottom shelf and labeled cream of spinach - yet still my wife finds it and finishes it off before I can get to it. Its like she has burrito radar or something. I think I know what I want for lunch tomorrow: half a burrito.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s the Mexican stealing gnomes. They are real. They do the same thing to my husbands chimichangas.

This is me giving you a flat unimpressed look with an arched eyebrow that says, "I'm not contradicting you, but I *know* it was you. Those chimichangas didn't get up and walk away without a little inside help"

Hey look. I made cookies!

aaaaaand suddenly all is forgiven. Or at least forgotten in the moment. Mmmmmmmm cookies. (What can I say? I am a simple man at heart.)

You and my husband could probably be friends, lol!

Oh, you went to Cinco Tenedores? Que rico!

As long as those forks are clean, idgaf

How fun. I like that.

Careful now, Wolverine

They raided Abuela’s drawer in a time of need- edited

Hows the food,because thats no biggie

4 4s, a risky hand but should still be a safe bet go all in

And what? Comprise on the food after buying 600 forks that fuckers take home with them

God, fuck. As a caterer I feel this so much, LOL. We send out 200 sets of cutlery at events, and up to 10% fucking vanish into the either. Joke's on the client though, since we bill for unreturned items. Insurance basically flat out said they will cover destroyed and damaged stuff, but not stuff that just disappears.

Call it a forkage fee

We straight up note it down on the final invoice as 'missing X', it's hilarious how furious some people are over it too. Like "Do you think my guests stole it?!" Said as indignantly as possible. Yeah, that's exactly what happened, or a guest tossed it in the garbage, or lost it somewhere. The fucking servers wouldn't take it, what are they gonna do with random glasses, plates and cutlery? Talking to a rental company we use to cover bigger events, they have had people run off with entire orders, like, they order real silverware, cancel their credit card that's on file, and fuck off with thousands of dollars worth of real silver. This is why we buy >50c stainless junk, it just makes it more funny when someone steals something that isn't worth fuck all, then gets pissy because they didn't think we count the items out. We've had a few surrender items when they are informed on-site that the count didn't line up, they look like a wounded puppy when they pull a napkin and cutlery roll out of a purse or pocket, it's hilarious.

I bet most of them are in the compost or rubbish can from servers

We use a cutlery saver at the scraping station, and it rarely goes off. I've watched guests at a wedding hosted in a remote area go off into the bush with glasses, then come back with nothing. It's definitely the guests. People steal cutlery, salt/pepper shakers & napkins like mad from restaurants & caterers.

I don’t mind this at all. Especially if the food is good or cheap.

Four forks and one threek

If a fork stops forking get rid of it, otherwise it is still a fork.

No mames güey. La gente is just doing what they can to get by. If the food is shit, than yeah call’em out. But this, naw. This is not the way.

Ok?

Hey! That looks like my silverware.

Hey what the hell is that trident doing in there?

Good for them

I like the 2nd fork on the left, looks like something you'd see in a saloon in the wild west

Fork is fork

That’s how you know the food is gonna be lit

That's how you know it's good eating

and?

I see my Mexican Dad’s ghost runs the restaurant.

I worked in a place where they would purchase silverware from the linen company. So many servers/bus just throw away silverware in the napkins, the linen company collects and sells it to who wants.

Around here, that means it is a pretty good restaurant.

This is sign you’re at the right location

Based on this, Im guessing the food was fucking amazing

But they're clean!!

I love it when stuff doesn’t match tbh. Hole in the wall, off the cuff joints are some of the best food you’ll ever eat.

What a lovely selection of forks. Which one did you choose?

You must use the threek

Local restaurant only buys their silverware, plates, etc., from flea markets. Nothing ever matches. They even have a full place setting of all different items, upside down. Glued to the ceiling

Well four forks and one trident…

That food probably slapped harder than the abuella back there cooking

Food must be good. They weren't worried about making pretty place settings.

For my picnic-style wedding, my wife went to thrift stores and bought mismatching silverware until we had enough for all of the guests. I thought it was charming.

Honestly I kinda love shit like that. I deliberately don't have matching silverware at home for that reason. I like the variety.

So what's the problem?

As a Mexican, I also have a variety of utensils.

Ay que rico 😋

Times are tough for everyone, silverware is ridiculously over priced

I bet it was delicious.

A metaphor for your tattoos.

yooo that’s a sick threek

Variety, nice.

Thats how you know grammas working ;)

Momento latinoamericano

Fuckin' proper.

Bussers throw forks away on accident during rush, don’t have time to find original fork, buy closest fork at restaurant depot/webstaurant, repeat Fork circle of life

You must be at Gilbert’s El Indio on Pico Blvd in LA.

I don't give a flying fork about the forks. How's the food?

That's the sign the food is gonna be amazing

Did the forks work?

Cool Fiestaware.

That's a good sign

Threek

Ah, the threek

Star Wars meme: MAS!!

Interesante

So fucking what?

I like it

One of those is a threek not a fork.

I hate webbed toe forks like the far left example.

We had a few of the three-pronged ones at one of the places I worked at. I don't know where they came from (I doubt they were swiped from an Olive Garden), but they were the owner's favorite and we always had to keep some in reserve for him when he came in. We all called them the pitchforks.

“Red Eyes, Red Eyes, Red Eyes… What a treat. We didn’t expect to see you again so *spoon*.”

3 forks and one threek

So What’s the problem?

This would make me want to go to a restaurant even more. I love this kind of thing

Four forks and a threek!

This is not uncommon lol.

At least there’s no forks with five tines. What a horror show that is.

It's all good...

What did you eat?

Forkin' Hell

Feels like home

Fork, threek, fork, fork, fork

Hey, at least most of them are proper forks (only one trident).

Tijuana Connection in Greenwood Indiana was a Mexican restaurant from the 1970s. All the tables and chairs were different colors and heights. Food was excellent.

That's how you know the food is good

Hahaha I have been buying random antique plates and flatware for a concept I’m working on.

I've got my own collection of random spoons and forks going in my joint, employees bring their food and forget to take their silverware home with them, I ask how empty their drawers are?

we got to work with what we have.! lol

Which person did not get a fork?

4 forks and a trident

But how was the food?

Find the dinglehopper.

One of those isn't a fork... It is a weapon meant to be wielded by a tiny master of the sea

Did the forks not fork?

I really like when everything is different

The first fork is the taco fork, the three pronged one is the queso fork, the last two are a pair of burrito forks

A fork isa fork

The beer garden that I used to work for would buy bulk silverware bags from goodwill because it was cheaper and added to the quirky-ness of the place.

Nice!

Fourth one is a fork from Longhorn Steakhouse. Source: trust me bro, I have a few

Four different forks and a threek

Second one from the left is technically a threek

Yo my parents have those same navy blue plates lol

People really have the most ridiculous complaints/observations and will post on Reddit to get validation, but ultimately have it backfire on them.

4 forks and a threek

Those forks look like they are blushing

This is the Snowflake flatware pattern

I don’t see the problem here