Comments on: Jamie’s Italian Restaurant on George Street http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/2008/07/04/jamies-italian-restaurant-on-george-street/ Learning Dutch in Oxford Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:07:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tulip http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/2008/07/04/jamies-italian-restaurant-on-george-street/#comment-27 Tulip Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:34:44 +0000 http://www.dutchclass.co.uk/?p=71#comment-27 The presentation of the food here is nice but the service lacks the personal touch. At all the other restaurants I know in Oxford staff offer freshly ground pepper and/or parmesan cheese, and serve it at the table, as required. Here there's no such attention to personal nuances. Food arrives as they expect you to want it - with nothing more to be said. Worse, by far, is the lack of symbols indicating the vegetarian options on the menu. Admittedly there don't seem to be many (and some of those may not really be veggie), but not knowing is not nice, and it's too loud to ask discreetly. One of the big attractions of Italian food is that it usually includes decent vegetarian options, just not in this case. The presentation of the food here is nice but the service lacks the personal touch. At all the other restaurants I know in Oxford staff offer freshly ground pepper and/or parmesan cheese, and serve it at the table, as required. Here there’s no such attention to personal nuances. Food arrives as they expect you to want it - with nothing more to be said.

Worse, by far, is the lack of symbols indicating the vegetarian options on the menu. Admittedly there don’t seem to be many (and some of those may not really be veggie), but not knowing is not nice, and it’s too loud to ask discreetly. One of the big attractions of Italian food is that it usually includes decent vegetarian options, just not in this case.

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