" wrote:

> I usually give a restaurant 3 strikes before I stop going, (if they're
> reasonably good, of course),

I would give a restaurant three strikes if it was the only place round. I
gave a local restaurant a second try after some locals raved about it. I
had walked out on my first visit because I was hungry, had been there 45
minutes, no menu and no offer of a drink, never mind a drink delivered.
When I did go back a year or two later it was hard to make a choice from
their menu. It's tough when there are on less than a dozen items on the
menu and all but two end in "ger".