Grilled Chicken, with home fried potatoes, and grilled mixed vegetables -$13.95<BR><BR>Wood-fired grilled Free Range Chicken with Sauteed Yukon Gold Potatoes, and a Grilled Vegetable Ratatouille - $24.95

I do not care what words they use to describe the food, so long as it tastes good. A restaurant could use the most unique, artful description ever thought of and it would still not make the food taste any better. Regarding the posting about wine words, I actually find words like buttery and plummy kind of useful in determining if I think I will like the wine and it it will go well with my food selection.

I must dissent....'the boss' was the only one who made me laugh on this post.<BR><BR>and I'd add:<BR><BR>NASCAR-approved<BR>Appalachian-style<BR>'from the Dahmer family recipe book'<BR>mob-style<BR>straight from the waters of Venice<BR>inspired by the WWF<BR>

Homemade.<BR><BR>No, it's not.<BR><BR>I'm not at home.

I love some of the contributions here!<BR><BR>My favorite meal? Grilled shrimp, artichokes, spinach with garlic, orange rice, and lime meringue pie. <BR><BR>For you? How about pate d'arachide avec scuppernong en gelee served on gently grilled pain de maison? (translate that, Sparky).

Add...<BR><BR>super-size<BR>biggie<BR>"house" salad

Some of the terms that people "don't understand" seem perfectly understandable to me. (It also seems some people are trying way too hard to be George Carlin):<BR><BR>Wood-fired: The oven burns wood, which makes a difference when baking pizza or bread.<BR><BR>Hand picked: Not picked by a machine (although I don't know why it matters).<BR><BR>Baked on the premises: Means they didn't buy if from an offsite bakery, which is supposed to indicate that the stuff is fresher.<BR><BR>Hand carved: Is supposed to mean that someone with a knife cuts the meat after you've ordered it, as opposed to using a slicing machine and cutting the meat ahead of time. You'll often hear the term at buffets where you ask the chef to cut your slice of roast beef.<BR><BR>And if you insist on "iced tea," do you also insist "iced cream"?

Logophobic, doesn't "gently grilled" fall under your original statement or I suppose that's how you serve your peanutbutter and jelly sandwhich.

The Boss's entry made me chuckle.

You know what I hate? When my dinner companions order using the whole name of the item -- for example, "I'll have the pan-seared salmon with baby carrots." If there's only on salmon on the menu, just order the SALMON, for Pete's sake.

Sorry to depart slightly from the topic, but I would ban these lines: <BR><BR>As you enter: "And do you have reservations with us this evening?" (No, if I did, I would have given you my name. Don't try to be so confrontational from the very get-go.)<BR><BR>While you are seated: "Have you eaten here at Wolfgang's before? OR: Do you know how it works here at Wolfgang's?" (What do I look like, an idiot? Yes, I know how it works: I sit down, I order from the menu and you speedily submit my order to the cook. Now beat haste or I'll smack you on the ass.)

I worked as a waitress during the OJ Simpson trial. A child seated at a table with her parents asked for a glass of OJ. Her Mom looked up and said sharply, "We don't call it that anymore!".

Ceaser Salad<BR><BR>What I wouldn't give to get a REAL Ceaser Salad. Dumping grated cheese, dressing and croutons on a bed of greens is NOT Ceaser Salad. And when they add the cucumber and tomato it puts me over the edge! Don't advertise what it is not.

Sheli:<BR><BR>Is a real "Ceasar Salad" the same thing as the more commonly served "Caeser Salad"?<BR><BR>

To Phrases,<BR><BR>Even worse, "And do you have reservations with us this evening", yet the dining room is only 1/4 full at 7:30 PM. Compliments of The Registry Resort, Naples, FL.

All of your replies are Simply Delish!

OK, I guess we have to educate the masses:<BR>When someone says, "Do you have reservations with us?" they're asking so they'll know if people who made reservations actually showed up, and then they can line-out their names on the reservations list.<BR>Or would you prefer: "Tell me your name so I can look at my reservations list and draw a line through your name"?

On a similar but different note, have you seen the latest dog food commercial where they say that the ingredients are "gently prepared"!? Christ! My dog wouldn't care if they were prepared by a chain-saw murderer. As long as it looks bad and smells worse he'll eat it!

LOL-dog lover, I agree! although I have been noticing that the fancy schmancy dog food I have been feeding my dog makes his breath smell like fish! They put Cod in it....ick ick, nothing worse than that hot fishy breath panting in your face!

Hey Boss, I think you meant "Caesar Salad," not "Caeser Salad." Don't you hate it when someone corrects you?<BR><BR>I personally hate the phrase "demi-glace." I think it's some kind of glaze, but it sounds more like an excuse to add another $7.50 to the cost of the entree.