Jad

Last night (30th June) my wife and I with some friends went to The Vines/Helen’s Hill for dinner, a restaurant and winery in Coldstream. Great place; the food was really nice, the service was good and the wine was fantastic. There was just one problem; well I’m not sure if I can call it a problem or not so I’d thought I’d ask you all here at Nook what you think…

The menu had a clause printed down the bottom stating that on a Saturday evening a minimum of two meals must be purchased per person. Now my friends and I aren’t really 2 meal people. We don’t usually go for the entrée and vary rarely do we find something on the dessert menu that appeals to us. We usually stick to mains and then go out somewhere else for dessert. We go out for dinner a lot too as we all use our ‘Entertainment’ discount book as much as we can.

Now even though I go out to dinner fairly regularly I can honestly say I’ve never come across this kind of situation where I have to have two meals or none at all. Is it wrong? Should I be questioning it? Does a restaurant have the right to make up rules like this? It wasn’t like I was going to complain or demand the one course on it’s own; I wouldn’t want somebody in the kitchen spitting in my food or something like that hehe.

Anyway I just thought I’d run it by you Nookers to see what you think about it.