Another day another Lomo Saltado. Yeah, this is my second day in a row having it. Last night I drove to Hartford to partake in the dish, and now I had it delivered to me from this Merritt 7 area restaurant. This time around I had some aji sauce to have the dish with, and fries on the side.
An improvement was that the portions were actually good portions. Well, at least for the proteins. A meal could actually be visualized with this kind of portion as a whole, which is important because before I got to eat this I was getting quite a bit hangry (trust me, you do NOT want me getting hangry). I got my steak medium done, which they were. Rice was also cooked well, and the juice from the steak that got on the rice was flavorful. Onions were crisp too and a good cut.
However, and this is a BIG however, even though I did get napkins in my bag as well as the Inca Cola I'd added in, there was nothing to eat anything with. No fork, no nothing. I'm sorry, is it illegal now to put eating utensils in with our delivery orders? Is assuming that they'd just give me a fork to eat my lunch with against the law now or something? Where I work doesn't always give me accessibility to be able to use eating utensils when we have lunch breaks, so I had to wait a while before even beginning to eat most of what I'd had. I was still able to eat the fries since that is usually a finger food anyway, but Lomo Saltado is definitely NOT a finger food! You need eating utensils for that, I don't care if it's delivery or not. That's like trying to eat Mac and cheese with my bare hands. See where I'm going with this?
Maybe if I were to go in person things would be different for the better. As it is now though, I cannot overlook the lack of eating utensils. Ah well. read more