"Smoked" ribs

Last night, Meg and I went to Rotterdam for Bryan's going-away dinner at Brutus Beer (Brutus Bear)... it's a ribs place and on Thursday nights they have all-u-can-eat ribs. We had a few drinks and some bread, ordered our food... and the place starting filling up with smoke. They tried to fix it and it seemed to get a little better, but no such luck. We were sitting right by the kitchen, so we could see that something was really wrong. Sure enough, a few minutes later, the waitress comes out and tells us we have to evacuate and the fire brigade is on the way.





These guys have some very reflective suits!





They even went up on the roof...



Here we are waiting for word on whether or not they were going to let us back in... turns out the answer was "no".



Luckily, there was a nice Italian restaurant not far away that had room for us.



Paul told us later that Brutus Beer had already burned down less than two years ago and was rebuilt... when we walked back by later, no one was there, but it seemed that the place was ok. I think Bryan was disappointed... he had been looking forward to scarfing down a few plates of ribs before he left Rotterdam.