Yesterday contained unusually high levels of FAIL, the details of which I'll refrain from outlining in detail here.  But the FAIL culminated in a disaster of an attempt to have unapologetic's birthday dinner at Cafe Degas.  Despite a 7:30 reservation, we weren't seated until almost 8 after being ignored by the host and the bartender who were clearly too busy to actually serve people drinks while they were waiting for their tables to open up.  When we finally got our table, there was lots of grumpy on our parts which wasn't helped by taking a long time to get a drink order (a bottle of wine which never materialized) and after being given "a minute" to make a final food choice, we waited another 10 minutes for our waitress to return only to be told that they'd just run out of the soft-shell crab special 5 minutes ago.  After sitting for 30 minutes with no wine and no food, it was time to abandon ship.  Sorry, Cafe Degas, but you totally sucked it last night.

Which turned out to be the best thing we did all night because we ended up walking in at Mondo and had a super awesome birthday reboot meal.  Spirits lifted, wine procured.  Fried hominy and creamy crab toast and perfect rosemary shrimp and awesome crawfish etouffe and really awesome sweet potato pecan pie and really, really awesome beignets with honey & yogurt.  And there were so many other things on the menu that looked yummy and everything was cooked perfectly.

Mondo WIN.  Thank you, Susan Spicer, for saving a birthday dinner from disaster.