Last night, a couple of friends and I went out for a meal to a restaurant called ‘TIPS’, in Palermo Soho.

TIPS -Restorán a la Propina is a restaurant in which you only pay what you think the food and the service were worth.
You are served a set menu consisting of an appetizer and a cocktail, an entrée and a glass of wine, water, beer or soft drink, a main course with a second glass of your chosen beverage, and a dessert with a cup of coffee or tea.

That statue was sort of intimidating.

The restaurant itself is quite nice. It has different sections (the lounge, the bar, the patio, etc) and they are decorated differently, ranging from Pop art to camp style.
We were sitting in a part of the lounge area that was mainly decorated with religious icons, such as painting that depicted Jesus and a Virgin Mary statue.

Anyway, I chose the following menu:

Entrée: TIPS’ Fries (french fries with a cheese topping) with a glass of Coke Zero.
Main Course: Chicken Schnitzel with a side of fried yam and caramelized onions, and another glass of Coke Zero.
Dessert: Flan with dulce de leche. Neither coffee nor tea were offered.

The service was terrible. The waiters were rude and unhelpful. The main course took more that an hour and a half to arrive, and it wasn’t even worth it. The side dish was cold and the portions were quite small. And the dessert was terrible, it tasted like plastic. And they didn’t even offered us our drinks. Terrible.

The worst part was that they turned some of the lights off WHILE WE WERE EATING. It wasn’t even late, and the restaurant was full of people, but one of our waiters told us that they had to turn a lamp off, and he didn’t bother to tell us why.

I was so pissed off, I just want to pay exactly what I thought they crappy service was worth and get the hell out of there. I won’t tell you how much we paid, but I think it was more than enough.