Worst grub you've had out?

Joaquin223 · 29-12-2016 02:01PM

Wetherspoons in Dun Laoghaire. Took the waitress about 20 seconds to bring out our food after we ordered (chicken breast and a pasta dish). Tasted worse than those microwave ready meals

Jimmy Bottlehead · 29-12-2016 02:04PM

Riverside Restaurant in Charlestown, Co. Mayo.

My folks chose it and it was absolutely dire. The steak was sinewy, tough and overcooked. The chips were frozen chips. I ordered breaded brie for the starter; stuck my fork in and the outer crust shattered sending rotten liquid cheese scuttering around the plate. No thanks.

SteM · 29-12-2016 02:06PM

That JDs Steakhouse place. Had an awful steak and the 'chunky chips' were hard as the hobs of hell.

demanufactured · 29-12-2016 02:09PM

Supermacs athlone NYE 1999
I'd had about 15 pints of Guinness and ordered a curry cheese chips and a burger...ate the whole lot, then puked it all up the following day...pure shyte it was.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 29-12-2016 02:10PM

Myself and a bunch of friends were out for a meal in London years ago. I was going through my vegetarian stage at the time and ordered the vegetable tagatelli. My food arrived first and I was amused to find that it was simply a bowl of regular tagatelli with approximately 12 peas in it and that was it. I tasted one bite of it and asked to speak to the manager. He came along and agreed that not only did it look terrible but probably tasted similar (although he declined the offer to taste how utter ****e it was) I just had a plate of chips instead as they had nothing else on offer. I didn't have to pay for either (not that I was going to anyway but at least the manager took the initiative to sort that much)

Mister Vain · 29-12-2016 02:11PM

A beef dinner in Molly Keogh's. I had to cut the gravy with a knife.

Yamanoto · 29-12-2016 02:25PM

Saw this the other day & thought it'd be handy info to hang on to for the year ahead.

It's a list of Michelin 2017’s Eating Out in Pubs Guide.

Antrim

Billy Andy’s at Mounthill, near Larne

Clare

Morrissey’s (Doonbeg), Vaughan’s Anchor Inn (Liscannor), Wild Honey Inn (Lisdoonvarna) and Linnane’s Lobster Bar (New Quay)

Cork

Mary Ann’s (Castletownshend), Poacher’s Inn (Bandon), Deasy’s (Clonakilty), Cronin’s (Crosshaven) and Toddies at The Bulman (Kinsale)

Down

Pheasant (Annahilt), Poacher’s Pocket (Comber), Parson’s Nose and Plough Inn (both in Hillsborough) Pier 36 (Donaghadee) and Balloo House (Killinchy).

Dublin

Old Spot and Chop House (both in Ballsbridge)

Galway

Moran’s Oyster Cottage (Kilcolgan) and O’Dowd’s (Roundstone)

Kerry

O’Neill’s Seafood Bar (Caherciveen)

Kildare

Harte’s (Kildare),Ballymore Inn (Ballymore Eustace) and Fallon’s (Kilcullen)

Leitrim

Oarsman (Carrick-on-Shannon)

Louth

Fitzpatricks (Jenkinstown)

Mayo

The Tavern (Murrisk) and Sheebeen (Westport)

Sligo

Hargadons (Sligo Town)

Tipperary

Larkins (Garrykennedy)

Wexford

Lobster Pot (Carne)

Wicklow

Byrne & Woods (Roundwood).

Wild Honey Inn (Lisdoonvarna) and Toddies at The Bulman (Kinsale) both retained an “Inspectors’ Favourites” commendation, described in the Guide as ‘establishments found to be particularly charming and which offer something extra special’.

http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/irelands-32-michelin-guide-pubs-to-try-this-week-if-youre-sick-of-christmas-cooking-35305994.html

r93kaey5p2izun · 29-12-2016 02:29PM

Eddie Rockets in Liffey Valley is dire. Undercooked, cold - it makes me feel ill just thinking about it.

Another place you don't have high expectations but am consistently shocked at just how low the standards are is Debenham's restaurant. The congealed curries and pasta dishes sitting out for all and sundry to maul. Ugh.

_Kaiser_ · 29-12-2016 02:30PM

Went out for a meal earlier in the year and we were left sitting for 45 minutes waiting on our food while others who arrived after were already eating.

Can't say what it tasted like but the service was shyte and the manager of the place didn't give a f&ck. It finally arrived just as we got up to go, so I told them to keep it and we had a lovely dinner in the pub across the road instead.

HS3 · 29-12-2016 02:38PM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

Captain America in Grafton Street. Quite simply the worst meal I've ever had and I have very low standards when it comes to food.

Have to agree with you. Was there a week ago and the food was awful.

But Unicorn on Merrion Row was probably the worst meal I've had in a long time. The steak was over done, came with a splat of mash. They tried to posh it up by dumping a few truffle shavings over it, but it was very disappointing .

Widdershins · 29-12-2016 03:48PM

Before I became vegetarian. Spaghetti Bolognese in a now closed restaurant called Granny Something-or-other's in Ennis. It was mince with tomato ketchup and beans and god knows what else.
A bowl of vegetable soup in a restaurant in West Clare. It seemed to be a bowl of curry sauce mixture.

bnt · 29-12-2016 03:49PM

Can't remember the name of the place, but it was some hotel on Harcourt St. in Dublin. It was a "Christmas dinner" about 3 years ago. The main course was a piece of rubber chicken that had been somehow "assembled" in to an unnatural shape with broken bones inside. Plus various overcooked vegetables. The desserts had been sitting on a rack in the dining room all evening, gathering dust and flies: I had been a bit hungry and managed to get something out of the chicken, but seeing those desserts just made me want to go home, so I did: game over.

osarusan · 29-12-2016 03:54PM

Was served heated vinegar instead of heated rice wine by mistake.

I have eaten some horrible stuff, but it wasn't necessarily badly prepared or poor quality, it was just that I didn't like it.

One that was just really nothing like what it should have been was an Irish stew in some tourist pub in Galway. Really poor stuff, aimed mostly at tourists who mainly wouldn't know any better.

jippo nolan · 29-12-2016 04:05PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

A beef dinner in Molly Keogh's. I had to cut the gravy with a knife.

And they serve soup by the slice!

ChannelNo5 · 29-12-2016 04:09PM

A place called Louies on Mary Street in Cardiff in the early 00's. I think it may still be there.

A plate of cauliflower or so i thought when it came to the table.

It was actually Battered fish, peas, and hand cut chips but it was all the colour of cauliflower... and it tasted like cauliflower too. Luckily I like cauliflower... but still!!:o

duffer247 · 29-12-2016 04:14PM

team_actimel wrote: »

TGI Friday's. Ate there once, never again. Ordered bruschetta which was the worst one I've ever had.

We usually go for a pre-Christmas meal out with family and friends, this year we thought it would be "fun" especially for the kids to go to TGIs on the Green. Just awful. Very very long wait for everything including drinks. Cold food. Bottle of wine was plonked on the table, it had been opened and then the cork put back in (like you do at home). Didn't even offer to pour it? Anybody come across that before?
They asked if everything was alright and I said no, and I don't think they knew what to do. They eventually knocked 25% of bill.

Mister Vain · 29-12-2016 04:15PM

Kangaroo curry in Melbourne.

Donal55 · 29-12-2016 04:18PM

A bowl of cassoulet in Lourdes about six years ago. Can almost taste it now, it was vile.

fussyonion · 29-12-2016 04:39PM

Chicken curry in the Chinese restaurant above The Ballyknockan Inn, Co. Wicklow.

Spongey chunks of chicken that squeaked and bounced around my mouth til I had to stop and tell the waitress it was horrible.

I'd normally say nothing and just not eat it, rather than complain, but it wasn't that cheap and there was no way I was finishing it.
I ordered the beef stir-fry and it was a lot better.

I also had sausage and chips in The Blue Gardenia, Brittas, and cut open said sausage to find a long black hair.

Also had a burger in The West Wicklow House, Blessington recently. Burger was fatty and gristly beyond belief.

Oh also had lasagne in The Maldron Hotel, Tallaght. Outside was hot but it was icy cold in the middle.

RWCNT · 29-12-2016 04:40PM

duffer247 wrote: »

We usually go for a pre-Christmas meal out with family and friends, this year we thought it would be "fun" especially for the kids to go to TGIs on the Green. Just awful. Very very long wait for everything including drinks. Cold food. Bottle of wine was plonked on the table, it had been opened and then the cork put back in (like you do at home). Didn't even offer to pour it? Anybody come across that before?
They asked if everything was alright and I said no, and I don't think they knew what to do. They eventually knocked 25% of bill.

Surprised to hear these very bad reviews, I went a few months ago and it was average enough. I suppose it was a lunch-deal so the place was quiet enough and the food was of the burgers and chicken wings variety so quite hard to f*ck up.

bnt · 29-12-2016 04:48PM

Another one low on my list was an Outback steakhouse in Jacksonville FL, north side near the airport, which I visited with friends about 18 months ago. They screwed up the orders and then brought things out of sequence, but the food was also bad. I just checked the menu again for a reminder: I had a Ribeye steak which was over-done and tough, totally forgettable, but the kicker was the "Aussie-Tizer®" (ugh), a thing called a Bloomin' Onion.

Their description:

Our special onion is hand-carved, cooked until golden and ready to dip into our spicy signature bloom sauce.

My description:

A bog-standard onion that had been assaulted by Crocodile Dundee, drenched in cayenne pepper and other dry spices, then deep-fried until it screamed for mercy, then served at a huge markup with some sauce from a 2-gallon plastic bottle.

:mad:

Rumpy Pumpy · 29-12-2016 05:05PM

All those places like TGI Friday's, Captain America, Hard Rock Cafe are awful. Dreadful food thrown out and inflated prices. Their popularity is a mystery.

shooter69 · 29-12-2016 05:17PM

cbreeze wrote: »

'Blue' on Harbour Road, Skerries: while the food is generally just below the average, i.e. stale fish, completely overdone burgers served cold, the' take it or leave it' service is probably the worst in North County Dublin. We were kept waiting over an hour from when the mains were cleared away for afters to be delivered. We would have walked out only it was a family birthday which was completely spoiled. We have never been back, and always warn our friends to keep well clear. :mad:

+1 , food mediocre , service abysmal , overpriced ,overhyped and staff attitudes up their own arses , haven't been back after similar experience

woodchuck · 29-12-2016 05:17PM

I ordered a bowl of soup in an airport and the menu said it came with a ham sandwich. The ham sandwich was two pieces each about 3x1 inches (they obviously made one sandwich and cut it up to cover about 6 orders).

If one had not been expensing the lunch, one would have been having serious words for paying over 10 pounds for such a travesty!

cml387 · 29-12-2016 05:18PM

I seem to have been quite lucky in that our Edddie Rockest (now Rockin' Joes, trivia fans!) is quite ok.

I do recall a Lasagne in Skibbereen once which achieved the difficult concept of being burnt AND cold.

FizzleSticks · 29-12-2016 05:52PM

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Ush1 · 29-12-2016 06:13PM

I second Wetherspoons in Dun Laoghaire (40 foot). Should have known when the prices were so reasonable. Even misled with the gastro bistro style menus.

Food was absolute dog****e and I'm not picky. Even the seagulls weren't impressed.

I'll also echo TGIs, both on Stephens Green and Dundrum, totally rotten and not cheap.

I actually am surprised at the Captain's Americas bad reviews, I normally get the Cajun chicken burger meal that's fairly nice.

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Mister Vain · 29-12-2016 06:56PM

Chicken and egg fried rice in the Budda's Belly restaurant. The chicken was so tough it asked me outside for a fight at one stage. Chinese chicken is nearly always tough.

Mike Guide 69 · 29-12-2016 07:08PM

I suppose I can add "worst fry" to this thread as well. The odd time I treat myself to a fry, but a few years back I went to The Kylemore Cafe in O'Connell Street. Dear lord, it was terrible, rashers and sausages swimming in their own grease, served with rubber egg and toast. To say my stomach was painfully bloated and growling after consuming that mess is a bit of an understatement, I must have wolfed down a whole packet of rennies to keep me at bay. Seriously avoid!!!!!

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