Worst Restaurant Experience?

JupiterKid wrote: »

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.

My local Chinese has can open kitchen.

The worst I had was a chipper where she sneezed into her hands, wiped them in a cloth and then proceeded to wipe the counter with the same cloth.
When I complained to the owner he barred me
Needless to say, the FSA paid them a visit

Was in quite a nice (or so I thought!!) restaurant in London a couple of years ago with the wife, I ordered the Filet de Boeuf Grillé et Purée d'Epinards Poêlée de Champignons and asked the waiter to choose a wine to accompany my meal ....... he presented me with a 2004 bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Montrachet Grand Cru .......... I couldn't believe it!!?!! White wine with beef!!! :eek:

I gave the waiter a severe telling-off before I took my wife by the hand and left in disgust ........ that was my worst ever restaurant experience.

eeguy wrote: »

I usually have a cup of tea with my steak and mushrooms.

Peasant! :P

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Oh yes and Irish "food" is so great. The zenith of Irish cuisine is the shnack box.
A little note on Irish takeaways. Every single one of them uses the same polystyrene buns, frozen burgers from a centralised "mystery meat" processing plant, the same mass produced sauce and the same pre-cut lettuce and tomato. And a lot of Irish restaurants are glorified chippers with a few tables that will charge you €15-20 for chips and burger of the same mass-produced quality as the above.
My worst food experience is ordering a chicken kebab in one of those eateries.
The took white, processed chicken, as found on the average Irish sandwich, put it onto a bun, put mayonnaise on it and shoved it into the microwave.
It was almost as disgusting as the shredded shoes and car tires with cabbage and ketchup you will be served up in a well-known Irish chain doing an Oirish version of "dem foreign muck", also referred to as ethnic food.

Give me a good Chinese, Thai or Indian any day. A lot of people are scared of them, because it has more than salt and pepper in them, average Irish meal recipe is:
Meat, shove in pot and boil or shove in oven and roast
Potatoes, throw in pot and boil
Veg, ditto
Ladle out, add salt.
Just like mammy used to make.
Of course you're all scared of properly prepared food and there's a particular dislike of any sauce here.

So so sorry for offending your culture, Mr Lao. :rolleyes:

Went with a group a eight to a place near the hostel we were staying in, I nearly just got fast food instead because it was about 7pm ad I had been starving for the better part of an hour. We all ordered our food, and 3 of us ordered a starter as well, asking for them to go on the side (just something for everyone to nibble on) - the one I ordered was jalapeno poppers, because a few people had not tried them before. The main I ordered was paella.

Anyway, about 15-20 minutes later the first two other starters arrived down, and then mine... pear and brie bruschetta. Not even remotely like what I ordered, but that had been my second choice anyway so I let it slide. Then the mains started coming out right after, the first of which was paella - but one of the girls had ordered it too so I let her have that one. Everyone's mains begin coming out at odd, staggered times - about 2-3 every 10 minutes.

20-30 minutes later (about 40-50 minutes after ordering), and all but 3 of us have food.

40-45 minutes later (over an hour after ordering) and it's just me an one lad left.

An hour later (close to an hour and a half after ordering) and his comes out. Not mine.

We are all clearly very irritated at this point, myself most of all.

Eventually, close to two full hours ordering I call over the waitress and ask her what the f*** is going on with my food. She gives me a bit of a blank/panicked look and says she will check with the chef.

Out she comes a few minutes later, and says that because they make their paella from scratch it takes a lot of time, and that they are low on staff for the night so they had to leave that until the final of all the meals being made for our table. As she is saying all of this, the paella comes through from the kitchen. I told her I didn't want it and was not paying for anything from the night - most of our table had finished eating over an hour previous. And I completely went off on her for lying, because one of the very first meals out for the entire group was the other paella our table had ordered.

She sheepishly just said I could take it and didn't have to pay. I took it because it was 10pm and I had been starving for close to four hours at this point - I had got to that point where you're so hungry that you stop being hungry! Anyway, back I went to the hostel and opened the box... the chicken was still semi-raw and the rice was only half cooked. Took a picture and sent it to the rest of the group, f***ing raging.

Then to top everything off, when they got back about 20 minutes later they told me that the place had tried to sneak that second paella and the bruschetta, plus what I was drinking... onto one of their bills (they got them separate)! The girl then said I had told her those two others were covering my bill, seemingly forgetting that I was sat at the same table as these people for two hours, getting hungrier and hungrier, and angrier, and angrier. They demanded to speak to a manager, and funny enough there was none there. They demanded she call the manager, which she 'tried' but could not get through to (we reckon she dialed a wrong/non-existent number on purpose)... so they did what they should have done. They told her to f*** herself and walked out without paying a cent.

I do regret rage-binning the paella though, and not bringing it in the next day to talk to a manager about.

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Oh yes and Irish "food" is so great. The zenith of Irish cuisine is the shnack box.
A little note on Irish takeaways. Every single one of them uses the same polystyrene buns, frozen burgers from a centralised "mystery meat" processing plant, the same mass produced sauce and the same pre-cut lettuce and tomato. And a lot of Irish restaurants are glorified chippers with a few tables that will charge you €15-20 for chips and burger of the same mass-produced quality as the above.
My worst food experience is ordering a chicken kebab in one of those eateries.
The took white, processed chicken, as found on the average Irish sandwich, put it onto a bun, put mayonnaise on it and shoved it into the microwave.
It was almost as disgusting as the shredded shoes and car tires with cabbage and ketchup you will be served up in a well-known Irish chain doing an Oirish version of "dem foreign muck", also referred to as ethnic food.

Give me a good Chinese, Thai or Indian any day. A lot of people are scared of them, because it has more than salt and pepper in them, average Irish meal recipe is:
Meat, shove in pot and boil or shove in oven and roast
Potatoes, throw in pot and boil
Veg, ditto
Ladle out, add salt.
Just like mammy used to make.
Of course you're all scared of properly prepared food and there's a particular dislike of any sauce here.

Wow. What an outburst.