Worst grub you've had out?

JupiterKid · 29-12-2016 07:38PM

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.

That's a real shame. Haven't been there in years but about a decade ago the grub there was pretty good for the type of restaurant it is.

Grandeeod · 29-12-2016 07:42PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Abbeyleix around 8 years back it was a former pub in the square that lost it's licence and he carried on serving dinners.

Got caught out in that place too. The Eagles Nest or Rest, it was called. Last time I passed the place has been completely renovated into an Italian joint.

Grandeeod · 29-12-2016 07:48PM

Mike Guide 69 wrote: »

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!!!!!

All those kind of places have gone down hill over the years. The people employed to cook aren't familiar with how to actually cook and present food like that. The other problem is that the food will only maintain any kind of quality for a short period of time under the lamps. If the turnover is slow, the food suffers and Kylemore isn't cheap either.

Stheno · 29-12-2016 07:56PM

Weatherspoons / shudder

campo · 29-12-2016 08:05PM

Del Arte in Crescent SC Limerick, ordered the calzone and waited a good 30 mins for it, which was not a problem I don't mind waiting for food.

But when it arrived I cut into it and took one bite and it was freezing, the cheese was not even melted, the mushrooms were still raw it was just awful, I usually don't complain about food but when the waitress asked was everything alright I had to say no, she took one look at my plate and said that looks raw.

The staff were lovely but food was just awful

monkeysnapper · 29-12-2016 08:16PM

Myself and Mrs snapper went to Molly Darcy's in Killarney a few years ago and every aspect of the meal was bad, the service, starters, main . I think even the coffee was dire .

Anyway it used to be very good so I decided to send a personnel message on Facebook and manager got back to me and agreed 100% that standards were terrible and gave me free starter and main and desert for 4 people but asked if I'd leave it 2 months before returning so he could have time to sort place out .

Grandeeod · 29-12-2016 08:16PM

sugarman wrote: »

Some pox of a traditional french restaurant in Lille.

It was a family run spot and upon entering it was clear it was full of friends, family and locals that all knew each other quite well. I tried my best to ask for a table/seat in french and I literally had menus ****ed at me and was told sit wherever.

I asked to order a few times whilst being ignored, so stood up and went over and eyes were rolled to heaven and not so much as an acknowledgement came from her. Id ordered what I understood to be a traditional french sausage in Dijon mustard and breadcrumbs served with fries.

And surprisingly, thats what I got. I stick the fork into the sausage and get an awful bang of what I can only describe as raw sewage. I literally though one of the lads were letting off beer farts from the previous night. I cut into it with a knife and it get worse. I attempted to eat it but almost vomited with an already delicate stomach from 2 weeks of boozing.

Curisoity got the better of me anyway and I opened up the rest of it on the plate... by god I never seen anything as bad! There was every part of god knows what animal in there... what looked like entrails, spinal cords, lungs, liver... testicles.. I dont know and dont want to know!

€15 pissed away for essentially a plate of chips.

I have to add, the snotty restaurants opening hours were 2-3pm and then 5-5.45pm and would not serve my friends who arrived near 3pm. This was during the euros, when 100,000 fans were in the city and they didnt give a single ****!

The French couldnt run a bath.

It looks like you are describing "Andouillette" and from your description you got a very good traditional one too. I've never had the balls to try it after sitting beside another diner eating it. The fooking smell man!

Shenshen · 29-12-2016 10:37PM

I've had a fair few barely edible meals when eating out - most restaurants really, really struggle with the notion of a meat-free meal.
A recent highlight was place in Clonakilty (I honestly don't remember what it was called) that had a vegetarian burrito on the menu. What I got was a tortilla that had been wrapped around some baked beans and what I assume were assorted leftover vegetables, doused in sweet chili sauce, and then covered with cheese and baked. It's not a winning combination.

irish_goat · 29-12-2016 11:22PM

Grandeeod wrote: »

It looks like you are describing "Andouillette" and from your description you got a very good traditional one too. I've never had the balls to try it after sitting beside another diner eating it. The fooking smell man!

Had one myself this summer although the waitress was kind enough to warn me when I ordered it. I normally eat anything but this was hoaching. Had to cover it in mustard to enable myself to eat about half of it before I gave up.

team_actimel · 29-12-2016 11:24PM

Grandeeod wrote: »

All those kind of places have gone down hill over the years. The people employed to cook aren't familiar with how to actually cook and present food like that. The other problem is that the food will only maintain any kind of quality for a short period of time under the lamps. If the turnover is slow, the food suffers and Kylemore isn't cheap either.

Agree Kylemore has gone downhill. Was there a few months ago and the standard has certainly dropped since the years I was there before. Might have something to do with hardly any Irish cooking or serving food there now.

crosstownk · 29-12-2016 11:34PM

Bison on Wellington Quay. BBQ stuff on a work night out. The chicken had the texture of cardboard and equally as dry.

Awfully horrific.

Sam Kade · 30-12-2016 11:57AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Got caught out in that place too. The Eagles Nest or Rest, it was called. Last time I passed the place has been completely renovated into an Italian joint.

Yeah, the man that owned the place was Italian. A very chatty Italian.

_Jamie_ · 30-12-2016 01:16PM

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.

Lovindublin were eulogising their chicken wings a while back.

WesternZulu · 30-12-2016 01:33PM

I stayed in the Corbett Court a few weeks ago in Fermoy for work and I have to say the food was rotten.

We had dinner which was just about okay but way over priced for what it was. If work wasn't paying for it I'd have felt cheated.
But by far and away the worst food I've ever been served was during breakfast. The fry didn't look great so I asked for scrambled eggs so they said to take a seat and they'd drop them down to me. A few mins later the waitress came down with a plate of watery white lumpy crap. It didn't taste or look like eggs and the texture was awful, full of hard lumps of God knows what. I was hungry so ate most of it with some toast but if you're a chef by profession and you can't even do scrambled eggs to a microwave standard then you're seriously in the wrong profession!

An awful breakfast, I'm even pissed off just thinking about how little they seemed to care about the food they were serving up that morning.

team_actimel · 30-12-2016 01:44PM

WesternZulu wrote: »

I stayed in the Corbett Court a few weeks ago in Fermoy for work and I have to say the food was rotten.

We had dinner which was just about okay but way over priced for what it was. If work wasn't paying for it I'd have felt cheated.
But by far and away the worst food I've ever been served was during breakfast. The fry didn't look great so I asked for scrambled eggs so they said to take a seat and they'd drop them down to me. A few mins later the waitress came down with a plate of watery white lumpy crap. It didn't taste or look like eggs and the texture was awful, full of hard lumps of God knows what. I was hungry so ate most of it with some toast but if you're a chef by profession and you can't even do scrambled eggs to a microwave standard then you're seriously in the wrong profession!

An awful breakfast, I'm even pissed off just thinking about how little they seemed to care about the food they were serving up that morning.

I find in a lot of establishments that their idea of scrambled egg is a bitta egg mixed up with a whole lotta milk. The end result is a big white sloppy mess which doesn't even taste like egg. Cheapskates.

30-12-2016 01:50PM

I am in Naples, the place where the pizza was invented. Last night I had the worst pizza of my entire life. Worse than the time I tried to make pizza and the dough didnt rise properly. Last night was just terrible, but I ate it because I was cold and starving. It didnt help that I asked for a glass of wine and the wine was ice cold. It was a soggy doughy mess.
If Dominos delivered that to me I'd laugh in their face and shut the door, but I dont know the italian for "Are you f%$king kidding me?".

suicide_circus · 30-12-2016 02:12PM

Figlio di puttana, Li mortacci tua!

30-12-2016 02:18PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Figlio di puttana, Li mortacci tua!

Great. Now I can spell it, but I still can't pronounce it.

suicide_circus · 30-12-2016 02:19PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Great. Now I can spell it, but I still can't pronounce it.

Everything is pronounced just as it's written except "cc" is pronounced "ch"

TPD · 30-12-2016 02:30PM

I got a steak with a lemon sauce one time in galway. The steak was good and the sauce was alright, but they really didn't belong together.

Beasty · 30-12-2016 02:34PM

Not me but sat at a table in a hotel probably 30 years ago. It was a conference and they were serving dinner. The guy with the "special treat" took it all in his stride but as a vegetarian I was put off my own food when he prised a white "grub" away from his cauliflower cheese....

Graces7 · 30-12-2016 02:46PM

83 reasons why I never eat out

Stonedpilot · 30-12-2016 02:54PM

Any food at festivals. €6 for a crap tepid burger thrown together and usually mushy.

Rumpy Pumpy · 30-12-2016 03:11PM

I had the misfortune of eating in Jimmy Chungs on the quays a few back. Absolute muck. Trays of terrible food under lights. The lowest quality meat swimming in lurid coloured sauces. Loud and fat Dublin people swarming about the buffet as yet another tray of disgusting gloop is brought out from wherever they heat the food up.

Those all-you-can-eat places appeal to the greedy and slovenly. It's the false perception of value that makes them so popular with a certain strata of society.

KERSPLAT! · 30-12-2016 03:20PM

Graces7 wrote: »

83 reasons why I never eat out

You haven't changed anyway.

Graces7 · 30-12-2016 03:29PM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

You haven't changed anyway.

Nor has my income

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 09:25AM

Someone has reminded me of the time they decideded when new to Ireland, to introduce me to Chinese food... from a takeaway in a small Donegal village... She took one mouthful before I could start, spat it out then removed everything. from in front of us......She still, 10 years later, remembers the appalling taste

Even the feral cats would not touch it....

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 09:29AM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

I had the misfortune of eating in Jimmy Chungs on the quays a few back. Absolute muck. Trays of terrible food under lights. The lowest quality meat swimming in lurid coloured sauces. Loud and fat Dublin people swarming about the buffet as yet another tray of disgusting gloop is brought out from wherever they heat the food up.

Those all-you-can-eat places appeal to the greedy and slovenly. It's the false perception of value that makes them so popular with a certain strata of society.

Sounds like a scene from hell... I have a increasingly limited diet now due to increasing illness so need absolutely to know what is in what I eat. always take a flask out with me and so enjoy my picnics in beautiful places..

Reading this thread affirms that! Maybe someone should start a counter thread?

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 09:30AM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

You haven't changed anyway.

Thank you; a kindness,

Sweetemotion · 01-01-2017 10:13AM

Graces7 wrote: »

Someone has reminded me of the time they decideded when new to Ireland, to introduce me to Chinese food... from a takeaway in a small Donegal village... She took one mouthful before I could start, spat it out then removed everything. from in front of us......She still, 10 years later, remembers the appalling taste

Even the feral cats would not touch it.... ;)

:pac:

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