I wrote my critique of Kitty's Restaurant last December because I felt my family's 80-year, 6-generation tradition was at an end. Apparently, I was wrong.
From my grandparents to our great grandson, our visits to this North Reading (Massachusetts) restaurant was always a pleasure - until my wife, Linda, and I ate there a year ago. During that visit, the service was slow and awkward, the cost of drinks had risen - and the food was almost inedible. For the first time, we threw away the leftovers.
But we talked to some folks who had been there recently, and their views indicated the place was what it had always been. The word was that the food was as good and plentiful as I remembered..
As a reaction to the good news, Linda and I went back to Kitty's last month. We were heading to a wedding ceremony later in the day, so we sat at the bar and only ordered drinks and an appetizer. And I watched carefully at the speed of service to the other patrons and the food they had ordered.
I was reassured that Kitty's was still our family tradition. The faces of the waitresses and bartenders had changed, but everything else seemed the same. The sole glitch happened when we paid the bill - left a generous tip - and then were stopped in the parking lot by our waitress yelling that we had not paid the bill. We told her that we had paid the other bartender and continued on our way. Nothing is perfect.
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| Family dinner at Kitty's - roughly 11 years ago |
A sincere shoutout to our former-Kitty's-decades long waiter-Chris Cummings for making things so pleasant over the years. Our recent "glitch" won't matter. Kitty's, we are back!
Great to hear Tom! I'll give it another shot.
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