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Thai Urban weirdness
I’ve been eyeing Thai Urban Kitchen -- that Pan-Asian spot in Ogilvie Transportation Center from the owners of Lakeview’s Sura -- for months now, but I’m usually too busy making a mad dash to catch my train home to the West 'burbs to stop in. Finally, I got around to making dinner plans there, thinking it the perfect meeting ground for a group of girlfriends – a mix of city dwellers and suburbanites who commute downtown for work.
The evening started off on a weird enough note when our flustered server approached the table and candidly admitted how stressed out he was. We theorized that his blood pressure must be through the roof when the dining room was, you know, more than 10 percent full as it was that night. When a manager stopped by to help my vegan friend navigate menu options, we were dumbfounded when he asked her, “Can you eat seafood?” Biology lesson No. 1: Fish are animals too. When our server returned—remarking again about his stressed-out-ness—it seemed to take twice as long for him to input our orders into his PDA than it would have with a plain old pen and paper. But here’s to technology, right?
The cocktails were fine, the sushi was fine—but the oddity of the experience stuck with me the entire train ride home. Considering the lack of dining options near Ogilvie, though, we’ll probably be back. When you’re facing that lonely two-hour wait after missing a weekend Metra train, sushi and a martini beats McDonald’s by a mile.
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