Worst Restaurant Experience?

JupiterKid · 26-09-2015 08:07AM #1

Without naming places, what was your worst experience of an eatery? Vile food, appalling service and/or lack of atmosphere?

For me it was a few years ago at a Chinese. We were only one of two tables that were occupied and the chicken was so tough I had trouble cutting it up. My dining companion was served up something that came out of a can and we left the place to go and eat something edible.

So what were your restaurant nightmares?

vicwatson · 26-09-2015 08:09AM

The Thai in the village. Yak. Sorry we can't name names otherwise I'd give you more information. Sigh

Mister Vain · 26-09-2015 08:14AM

Microchip from dog found in Chinese.

vicwatson · 26-09-2015 08:19AM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Microchip from dog found in Chinese.

Was in South Korea, found dog in my Korean

Mister Vain · 26-09-2015 08:21AM

Ever notice how you can never see into the kitchen in a Chinese takeaway? You wouldn't know what they'd be doing.

degsie · 26-09-2015 08:23AM

vicwatson wrote: »

Was in South Korea, found dog in my Korean

Did it taste a bit rrrrruff?

longshanks · 26-09-2015 08:26AM

One time I was given a desert spoon for the soup.

Mister Vain · 26-09-2015 08:27AM

longshanks wrote: »

One time I was given a desert spoon for the soup.

Now that is appalling. Worse than any dog curry.

s15r330 · 26-09-2015 08:32AM

Was in a popular fast food chain, ordered a burger and chips, your man goes off to get chips etc, stops, picks up rubbish with bare hands and proceeds to stuff it into a bin (had to open the lid also), then he heads over to assemble my burger, I just walked out and have never been back, that was years ago!
I should have known, he was a dirty looking eejit anyway :pac:

Tordelback · 26-09-2015 08:34AM

longshanks wrote: »

One time I was given a desert spoon for the soup.

Ugh, all that sand!

shar01 · 26-09-2015 08:41AM

A restaurant in Fromentine near Nantes about ten years ago. We have feck-all French but enough to know the waiter was passing comments about us to the other diners - "une grand comedie" as he said as we took our seats.

Food was delish but by God some of the French are arrogant baxtards.

osarusan · 26-09-2015 08:53AM

Ordered 'hot sake' to drink on a cold winter's night, waiter somehow confused sake with vinegar and served us hot vinegar instead.

For Forks Sake · 26-09-2015 08:57AM

longshanks wrote: »

One time I was given a desert spoon for the soup.

Oh the humanity!

MilesMorales1 · 26-09-2015 08:59AM

I found this super cheap chinese on just eat and I thought it was amazing cos I was getting a huge bag of food for less than a tenner. The food was real bad, then I was so sick the morning after I thought I was gonna die. I was ****ting and throwing up at the same time it was so awful thats the worst meal I've ever eaten.

Got a refund though so thats alright.

sanna · 26-09-2015 09:04AM

Was in a chinese restaurant in Auckland with a friend for my birthday, food was lovely, halfway through meal my friend excused herself to visit the loo.

On her return she told me to stop eating we were leaving, wouldnt tell me what was happening till we left.

To get to the loo you had to go past the kitchen and she spotted the staff doing what looked like washing leftovers from previous meals in the sink, she said there was peas, veg an chicken in the colander with the previous sauce being washed off!

UsedToWait · 26-09-2015 09:10AM

sanna wrote: »

Was in a chinese restaurant in Auckland with a friend for my birthday, food was lovely, halfway through meal my friend excused herself to visit the loo.

On her return she told me to stop eating we were leaving, wouldnt tell me what was happening till we left.

To get to the loo you had to go past the kitchen and she spotted the staff doing what looked like washing leftovers from previous meals in the sink, she said there was peas, veg an chicken in the colander with the previous sauce being washed off!

Any chance they were just stopping the solids from going down the sink and blocking the drains?

fussyonion · 26-09-2015 09:47AM

Not surprised most of your stories are related to Chinese food.

I knew there was a reason I hated it; it's always nasty...spongy chicken, the same colour sauce no matter what dish you've ordered, voluminous looking spare ribs, big spongy chicken balls (I don't know how anyone can put those in their mouths), and then there's the little hatch so you can't see the kitchen.

Disgusting vile food.

My worst restaurant experience was in a pub near Blessington. Ordered lasagne and salad.
Tucked in and was disgusted to find a long black hair inside the meat mixture.

Menas · 26-09-2015 09:50AM

A restaurant in china served me an eel type fish that was still twitching.

Irishcrx · 26-09-2015 09:56AM

Local chipper. Ordered for takeaway burger and chips , burger was stone cold , raw and still mooing at me , chips weren't cooked. Called them back and they asked me 'Are you sure there raw?'....ehhh yes otherwise I'd be eating it you twat.

amdublin · 26-09-2015 09:57AM

sanna wrote: »

Was in a chinese restaurant in Auckland with a friend for my birthday, food was lovely, halfway through meal my friend excused herself to visit the loo.

On her return she told me to stop eating we were leaving, wouldnt tell me what was happening till we left.

To get to the loo you had to go past the kitchen and she spotted the staff doing what looked like washing leftovers from previous meals in the sink, she said there was peas, veg an chicken in the colander with the previous sauce being washed off!

So they pay someone to wash peas instead of just boiling some new (cheap) peas.

Sure.

amdublin · 26-09-2015 09:59AM

Not a gross story for the customers but gross on my part.

When I was 17 I worked in a really posh hotel restaurant. Myself and few of the other young waitresses used to eat off any uneaten food of the plates that looked nice before scraping the scraps into the bin.

Looking back how gross is that! At the time we were poor students and didn't give a sh1te.

MilesMorales1 · 26-09-2015 10:00AM

amdublin wrote: »

Not a gross story for the customers but gross on my part.

When I was 17 I worked in a really posh hotel restaurant. Myself and few of the other young waitresses used to eat off any uneaten food of the plates that looked nice before scraping the scraps into the bin.

Looking back how gross is that! At the time we were poor students and didn't give a sh1te.

Wouldn't we all?

Saipanne · 26-09-2015 10:01AM

Chinese food is generally revolting. If I'm forced to get Chinese takeaway I'll just order chips and such.

JupiterKid · 26-09-2015 10:03AM

Chinese cuisine when done right can be divine - but too many Chinese eateries here serve up pure rubbish - water injected "chicken" and watery sauces. The sad thing is that we Irish put up with this crap otherwise they'd be out of business.

I also don't like the way the kitchen is hidden from view - in my opinion it's good to be able to see the kitchen as it shows the customer that the restaurant has nothing to hide.

Toto Wolfcastle · 26-09-2015 10:04AM

amdublin wrote: »

Not a gross story for the customers but gross on my part.

When I was 17 I worked in a really posh hotel restaurant. Myself and few of the other young waitresses used to eat off any uneaten food of the plates that looked nice before scraping the scraps into the bin.

Looking back how gross is that! At the time we were poor students and didn't give a sh1te.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant (with a very clean kitchen) and we'd do that too. Only with the chicken balls or the crispy duck and only if they were still on the serving dish rather than the plate.

Darkglasses · 26-09-2015 10:04AM

In a trendy little cafe in Wexford, ordered a full Irish. The fried egg that came out I genuinely could not cut with a knife. My fork couldn't even break through the yolk. Everything else was fine.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-09-2015 10:32AM

Hess Burger Latvia

lakesider · 26-09-2015 10:38AM

chinese takeaway in Northern Ireland back about 30 years ago, ordered my takeaway and had to stand at a hatch waithing for the order, no one there but myself and the chinese guy who owned it.

next thing this guy starts clearing his throat and after several large rasping efforts to scrape every bit of mucous up from his stomach to his tonsils calmly spits the whole lot out into a bin beside one of the friers:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Never had the hunger leave me as fast in my life:(:(

I turns and walks away all the time listening to the filthy hoor shouting after me " where you go where you go, flied lice and chips soon be ready":mad:

Shergar6 · 26-09-2015 11:08AM

Often had so-so meals and less than clean glasses/forks but the worst experience was when the food was absolutely fabulous but the staff members kept bitching at each other in front if everybody. So awkward. You'd nearly put up with average food and a nice atmosphere v the opposite.

Ignatius in bloom · 26-09-2015 11:13AM

Darkglasses wrote: »

In a trendy little cafe in Wexford, ordered a full Irish. The fried egg that came out I genuinely could not cut with a knife. My fork couldn't even break through the yolk. Everything else was fine.

Actually something similar happened me in around St Stephens green it said baked eggs which it was as in if you go two eggs and put them in two little pans for three hours in the oven and then served them i thought it was an unfunny joke until i got the bill!

Rabo Karabekian · 26-09-2015 11:13AM

When you're not asked how you would like your steak cooked, it's usually a sign that you should change your order.

And then they served the steak with a butterknife.

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