Drift is a restaurant that is on Dardo Rocha 2290, Martínez, between Bogota and Caracas streets, opposite the Hippodrome of San Isidro.
inevitably pass the car driving on National Unity (or so-called Thames) and do not turn your head to the incredible open space Drift. While I could not see the last name of the place while driving, just the third or fourth time that happens I decided to get out of the avenue, bordered by Dardo Rocha to get a clearer picture and satisfy my curiosity. A simple glance at 20 kilometers per hour in the car were enough to confirm that drift would be my next restaurant to visit.
Last Friday was the day chosen to drift and as we know the car pretty loaded, with 20:30 and with a travel bag in the trunk, do not hesitate to park outside the restaurant on Dardo Rocha where security was that would not surprise me with some broken glass in my car, the "rag" (Like all Dardo Rocha, from the Panamerican Highway to Santa Fe Avenue) is not extortionate, it is polite and greets everyone with a smile. And parked the car, it was essential stop on the sidewalk to watch the entrance, the design of the garden with its pots playing impeccably placed lighting, great open space of this stud and finally understand that recycling is actually drift (and simple view) a "multi-space" as its website states. You walk slowly when you come to see the sides of the place and how, what were stalls for horses, hoping transformed to accommodate a business. Suddenly the restaurant appears like an island in the middle of this giant stud with big and tall windows, creating in us a desire to get pushy and know how it would be in that big bucket glaze, filled with warm lighting and browns against the cold that shone from the large windows.
just entered, I saw quickly that large windows are not flashed the terrible cold that made last Friday night and were perfectly thermally insulated, while managed to avoid a separation between outside and inside, as if we were to eat in the open . Ceiling height also highlighted and the center of this large cube is lined with bottles of wine at rest, leaving the visual fully charged before leaving the space empty the place, truly a delight to the eye. Arguably Drift has a unique cutting edge design, incredible quietly could be in the heart of Berlin.
- "It's like being inside a 3D Studio rendering" I thought aloud.
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: 3D Studio is a design program in three dimensions that is used in architecture and design).
At the same time we enjoyed the place we waited to be received, and receiving no or a "hello" or a "good night" of the three girls standing at the entrance (which we looked for a moment and turned to continue talking), we assumed that "Wave" of the place is to choose the table on their own. We walked around the place, slowly, enjoying the fine details in the decor (which are great) and we noticed that many of the tables had the note "RESERVED" was when we looked at the girls and the bar to establish some form of communication (at least some eye contact) and only receive the gaze of the three girls who were standing where they were watching and waiting for us to sit.
- "How odd that nobody comes with many tables and reserved Do you see a small sign that is not?" She asked.
said and done, after about 5 minutes Drift have entered, we find a table without notice.
Just as we are preparing to give strength in front of the knee ligaments to sit, we trotted on one of the girls. The same, with the most contemptuous tone, misplaced, rude and arrogant as possible, just like that of a hysterical schoolgirl appearing on a teen novel Argentine air channel, tells us in excessive volume:
- "The guys are fully booked, no place, it's all busy "
I was stunned. I looked to her face and had a stunning surprise. Look at both the girl and found that watched us face: "Do not you understand what I mean?". The girl was missing only chewing gum with his mouth open as she looked and already completed the circle. After the sentence is even closer to the table with the intent to re-sort that had never messy, touched or made, as if we were to pollute the magical universe of the table while we stopped and we watched it can not alter word . Were about 10 seconds of silence and amazement when it appeared a gentleman with a beard, about thirty years and a very nice voice.
- "Good evening, we are with the whole restaurant booked, I apologize but we have a table for them," said the Lord as the girl's face looked "You see that I have right? "The gentleman was a blessing, thank God appeared at that time
No words to say with amazement we went to the door, open us and ... we
Walking a few meters, I wondered if I was as nervous as she, to which I replied:
- "I do not bother me that all tables are occupied and I have to go at all, we came without reservations, is completely understandable. I do not understand is how there is no receptionist at the door to greet you, or because these three girls who saw us and came to get us at least to say "hello" or ask if we had reservations. "
- "And the girl? Not that we were badly dressed, "I asked again.
- "The tone of the girl was the most disgusting what happened to that woman? Was having a bad day? I do not understand the need to treat so repulsive, it was insulting you seen as moving his shoulders when he told us? The funny thing is that I hear about and can not believe what we just passed. We take just as rats when with a little education and common sense told us the situation we were leaving the house and wanting to return. What's more, we stayed with curiosity !!!".
- "The truth is that I feel very bad, this girl left me with a very bitter feeling. "
I turned, between the restaurant and to top it off on me a blonde lady posing as the receptionist and asks me if I had reservations.
- "Where were you last twenty minutes?" Ask and very upset.
I told him what happened, I recommended to do something with this girl derogatory, leave a card DINING IN BUENOS AIRES recommending you go to the page on Sunday and left. I was too nervous to have a normal conversation.
We were very very bad, unnecessarily altered. We live from restaurant to restaurant and we have spent host of both pleasant and disastrous situations, what happened in drift was as site design: cutting edge! The fact that the manager or owner can not control his receptionist for 20 minutes at the most important hours of the night and engaged a girl like the one we attended, I generated a terrible rejection of return.
not recommend going to drift. I personally do not want to go back again.
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