Famous Diners – Wright’s Farm Restaurant
BY DON DOUCETTE
So…we made a periodic run out to Wright’s Chicken Farm last evening – Thursday nights are best for us, a smaller crowd and better behaved.
We avoid at all costs the “ear plug dining room” – the noisy room on the left after the bar with poor acoustics – kind of like serving a brief prison stay. I digress…
We had a great server with service deluxe – a long-time employee and most capable.
So we’ve been served and are tucked-in, really good.
I raise the subject during table conversation, “Why are there no signed photos/portraits of famous diners hanging on the walls here at Wright’s? As in so many other well-known eateries? (The Maine Diner quickly comes to mind.)
(We flew a connector with Bernie and Phyll some years ago.)
Simply, portraits of the Wright’s founders are on public display by the stone hearth and countless portraits of colorful chickens with no pedigree – but otherwise no famous people.
So I ask our waitress during a wellness check, “Ever waited on a famous person here at Wright’s?”
Her brief answer, “No.”
She’s in drive and as a parting comment I say, “I saw Morey Amsterdam in Honolulu Airport some years ago.” (My badge of courage.)
Morey was a short guy, I could see over his head to the far wall of the air terminal – I still don’t know if he was coming or going and to this day wonder if he personally carried his own luggage?
And to be fair, I never saw any portraits of colorful chickens on display in the Honolulu Air Terminal – with or without pedigree.
Our meal was good as usual, but the nagging question remains, “How many famous people have ever dined at Wright’s Chicken Farm?”
Time may tell?
Don Doucette
“Ten Mile River Rambles”