A sweet little hippy-dippy slow jam never hurt anybody, and for me, Vegetarian Restaurant is that jam. Following in the tradition of such other classic "I fell in love with a waitress but it didn't work out well" as Don't You Want Me or Kim The Waitress (bet you didn't realize that waitress-infatuation was such a credible genre, did ya?), Vegetarian Restaurant weaves a first person tale of unrequited longing from the perspective of a counter-dweller that can't get his waitress crush to acknowledge him.
In other hands, this could've gotten creepy but Aberfeldy's narrator keeps it breezy, cracking silly jokes to mask his jilted heart. (Tears Of A Clown for 2003, anyone?) For fans of the late great That Dog, you'll find a similar sound of violins and close harmonies. This was Aberfeldy's first single, and while the subsequent stuff is agreeable, nothing else comes close to this bittersweet concoction.
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