ICME: Take-out from Mimi’s in Northridge
If I did not work within spitting distance of a Mimi’s I would never go there. It’s not that I dislike their food; it’s just that some of the people who work there are dumb (I was going to say “dumb as… ” something clever, but really they’re just plain dumb). Today’s take out order for myself and several of my coworkers was laborious. You wouldn’t think a person could get confused by the phrase “small dinner salad,” but you would be wrong. And I share with you here the piece de resistance: the “karot razon” muffin containers. I would like to tell you the guy who wrote this was an ESL speaker, but I’d be lying.
Related posts:
Oh dear, you went to Mimi’s? We tried it once. My youngest said it was an old ladies place and asked we never return.
Doesn’t explain the hurried scrawl on your to-go, just saying kids don’t like the place.
That’s razon enough for me to avoid the place.
Will Campbell…he’ll be here all week folks…
And yes, it’s blue-hair-ville all the way at Mimi’s. We’re talking the dark red hat club meets there. But hey, if it’s in Chatsworth and I don’t have to drive to it, it’s totally worth going to in my book.
Yeah, and even if he was ESL, that wouldn’t explain the backwards N.
I just saw a sign outside a florist selling "Fresh Bokay".
You haven’t lived until you’ve had fresh bokay. The frozen stuff can’t touch it.
Colinski: live long dyslexia! My affliction favorite.
Yeah, Mimi’s is definitely blue-hair territory, but the food is surprisingly good for a corporate-theme chain restaurant. I’ll go there for the triple-berry pain perdu (cream-cheese-stuffed egg-bread french toast slathered with fresh strawberries and blueberries in a raspberry syrup), the huevos con tortillas, the pot roast with mashed potatoes, the chicken pot pie, and the excellent coffee.
Now, mind you, the huevos and other Mexican-food offerings are only "authentic" in the sense that they’re about what you’d expect from Mexican food served in a New Orleans Jazz Cafe; and the whole New Orleans/Dixieland/Jazz theme-deco is weirdly at odds with the ’40s big-band vocal standards that are always on the muzak, but, still, it’s a pretty reliable breakfast/comfort-food chain.
[...] cleaned out (what an apt unintentional metaphor) in her Silverlake neighborhood (April 17); and Travis pokes fun at functionally illiterate restaurant workers. I could go on and on but I think the point speaks for [...]