Olivier Salad - Found!

Last Friday we went to Alborz restaurant in Tyson’s for lunch. I wanted to get the Olivier salad. It’s basically a potato salad with eggs, chicken, peas, etc.  My husband doesn’t care for anything “mixed up” unless he does the mixing up himself. So we asked for an order of Olivier salad  “to go” instead.  Invariably we end up taking home most of the lunch because we just don’t eat that much. So we also asked for his preferred kabob “to go” as well since he would only take a bite or two and then we would just split my order - which ended up being too much as well. So the waiter brought out all the “to go’s,” and what was left of my order. We didn’t check the bags to see if everything was there. When we got home, my husband said they forgot the Olivier salad as he unpacked the bags. I was a little perturbed because I was really looking forward to having it for dinner! I also remembered hearing something perhaps fall out of the bag when we were driving home - as everything was on the floor in the back seat. So my husband checked the car to see if the salad may have been displaced and somehow was left in the car. He returned empty handed. I was bemoaning not having that salad all weekend. Yesterday we went for a ride with three people and I ended up in the back seat. And wouldn’t you know - what was in plain view? The Olivier salad was sitting on the floor under the front passenger seat. So, after cursing the restaurant for getting our order wrong, it was rather embarrassing. Unfortunately by that time it was inedible. Next time I’ll order the salad for lunch and take the rest home. At least I’ll have a chance to have tasted it in the event it gets lost again. 

An Alborz Lunch

It’s like we went grocery shopping. The big bag of leftovers from our lunch was more than usual. We generally go to Alborz Restaurant during the week about every six weeks or so. But since they were predicting severe thunderstorms yesterday evening, we decided to go out for lunch instead of our traditional Sunday dinner. We really like Moby Dick for Persian food, but just for take out because they don’t serve wine. And Yekta is nice but a bit far away in Rockville. Alborz is in Vienna so it was a nice afternoon drive. My husband usually gets kabob, but for whatever reason he ended up with a sandwich rather than the platter with rice. Maybe it’s because I ordered the chicken sandwich and the waiter thought he meant the same - we had never had this waiter before, but he was really nice. We didn’t know we got the wrong order until we came home because we asked for the entrees “to go” and hadn’t seen them. We had also ordered four appetizers and knew we would be full. We end up taking a bite or two of the entree and wrap it to take home anyway. So we just munched on salad, eggplant, yogurt, and a chicken/potato salad with bread and tea. We added a few dessert pieces and had plenty of food for two more meals. I’m not sure my husband is looking forward to the same dinner tonight since he didn’t get what he really wanted. It’s all about the rice and we didn’t get any this time around.