Unfit for Display

You may want to be seated for this (for those of you who like to stand as you browse, that is). I've decided that some things matter more than food. Checked out an Ethiopian restaurant in Central Square with 'Alex' (the girl seriously changes names depending on how brown you are... which means that I get 'Alex' while others get 'Mayra') last night, and though the food was great and the server very nice, we're saying sayonara to Asmara.

We got to the restaurant pretty early. So early that there were only two other people eating. We asked if we could sit by the windows then, the better to people watch, and was told very kindly by the waitress that no, the tables by the windows are for bigger parties since they join together to seat six... six invisible people versus the two of us actually there in the restaurant. Minutes later, a white, elderly couple walk to be seated. They are immediately brought over to the windows where the server splits the tables into two groups: one that seats four and one that seats two. WTF, lady?! We just asked you to seat us there! And at the end of the night, we come to realize that the special she kept on pushing cost four times more than anything else on the menu. Everything else in the restaurant was very cheaply priced. But that special- it was probably that side order of racism that cost extra.