Worst Restaurant Experience?

Tarzana2

wakka12 wrote: »

Whats so bad about that? People are too obsessed with germs and hygiene these days, if Im in a restaurant and the table beside me leaves food that look tasty and hasn't been overly fingered/eaten then i take it when nobodys looking.

Because the person who was eating it might have a contagious disease for all you know. Community acquired illness and all that.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Click your fingers at the waiting staff.

MetalDog

My parents were in a restaurant and they found ants crawling on the table.
Needless to say they weren't impressed and called the waiter/staff, whose response was along the lines of "oh yeah, them".

Tarzana2

Collie D wrote: »

than to catch a bunch of the speedy, vicious little bastards.

Cats are great, aren't they? The adorable assholes. :P

Bummer1234

Was once in a restaurant near times square in New York and it was a Very cold Decembers day, It was one of them places where we had to give our names and we will be called in about 45 - 60 mins, So we went of shopping until then,

We were then seated beside the stairs where it comes up from the street,

Waiter was very giddy...So giddy infact that he would wreck anyones head....

Anyway... A very cold breeze was coming up the stairs and was freezing us,I asked for another seat as it was cold and he said they where busy and no other seats where available..At this stage I was starving so wasn't up for going elsewhere and waiting,

We ordered,Our food came not long after and not even a minute had passed where our mains came, I looked at him and saying "We are not really ready yet" but he leaves the mains on the table anyway,When it came to eating the mains it was cold and i was fed up with been frozen.

I know they get paid mostly on tips over there but they got feck all off a tip from me....

Birneybau

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Was once in a restaurant near times square in New York and it was a Very cold Decembers day, It was one of them places where we had to give our names and we will be called in about 45 - 60 mins, So we went of shopping until then,

We were then seated beside the stairs where it comes up from the street,

Waiter was very giddy...So giddy infact that he would wreck anyones head....

Anyway... A very cold breeze was coming up the stairs and was freezing us,I asked for another seat as it was cold and he said they where busy and no other seats where available..At this stage I was starving so wasn't up for going elsewhere and waiting,

We ordered,Our food came not long after and not even a minute had passed where our mains came, I looked at him and saying "We are not really ready yet" but he leaves the mains on the table anyway,When it came to eating the mains it was cold and i was fed up with been frozen.

I know they get paid mostly on tips over there but they got feck all off a tip from me....

Go to restaurant, order food and then are not ready to eat? Were you saying Grace or something?

GLaDOS

Birneybau wrote: »

Go to restaurant, order food and then are not ready to eat? Were you saying Grace or something?

I think he meant they were still eating their starters.

Scipio_Hib

Turning it around slightly - I'm a chef in a restaurant - so my worst experiences tend to be with customers, especially the over fussy ones who love telling you have prepared / cooked something wrong. All they generally do is highlight their ignorance.

allibastor

Muckross house in Kilarney


Went there for anniversary, Got a meal which was 5 course.
Waited 35 mins to be seated, it was somewhat busy but had about 25% of chairs available.

No one took a drink order at all, waited a further 20 mins to get a menu.
Ordered a the starter and main.

waited 40mins, then main came out. The Mrs ordered steak to be well done. Her fish came out very undercooked!!!

The waitress then said we did order the food as Mine was right, but it was the days special so no surprise.

Mains came out anyway, eaten. Desert order taken.

No sign of desert for 25 mins.


I asked to speak to the manager, but ended up speaking with the guy who was Bill Cullen's eyes and ears in the place.

We got an extra night in a fancy room for free. We could hear him the following morning having a team meeting the restaurant staff as we werent the only people with issues.

Corvo

Chinese restaurant in Portugal, which I had done a bit of research on and it had come highly recommended.

Prawn starter arrived and they hadn't even cleaned them correctly, meaning the waste pipe was still present on the prawn.

Left there and then.

Ignatius in bloom

allibastor wrote: »

Muckross house in Kilarney


Went there for anniversary, Got a meal which was 5 course.
Waited 35 mins to be seated, it was somewhat busy but had about 25% of chairs available.

No one took a drink order at all, waited a further 20 mins to get a menu.
Ordered a the starter and main.

waited 40mins, then main came out. The Mrs ordered steak to be well done. Her fish came out very undercooked!!!

The waitress then said we did order the food as Mine was right, but it was the days special so no surprise.

Mains came out anyway, eaten. Desert order taken.

No sign of desert for 25 mins.


I asked to speak to the manager, but ended up speaking with the guy who was Bill Cullen's eyes and ears in the place.

We got an extra night in a fancy room for free. We could hear him the following morning having a team meeting the restaurant staff as we werent the only people with issues.

Huh?

She ordered steak but got fish?

I can't really follow what you wrote?

allibastor

Ignatius in bloom wrote: »

Huh?

She ordered steak but got fish?

I can't really follow what you wrote?

Yep,

She ordered a well done steak, but she was given out fish which was under cooked.

Jan Laco

Got a cheeseburger with no meat while din** ing in an Italian chipper in Terenure village.
Other times I noticed they left out items. So it seemed to me that they were robbing people that had a few drinks taken.

Jan Laco

Scipio_Hib wrote: »

Turning it around slightly - I'm a chef in a restaurant - so my worst experiences tend to be with customers, especially the over fussy ones who love telling you have prepared / cooked something wrong. All they generally do is highlight their ignorance.

So they should eat up and shut up? Or you actually cook everything to perfection everytime?

Bummer1234

Birneybau wrote: »

Go to restaurant, order food and then are not ready to eat? Were you saying Grace or something?

Yea, Should have mentioned our starters and Main came almost at the very same time....

Joe prim

Was in a local restaurant with my good lady, ordered a warm nourishing soup as it was a cool night. When it arrived, to my horror I discovered a fly floating in it. Called the waiter chappy sharpish and said "look here, old chap, there's a fly in my soup" To my amazement he replied, "Be quiet Sir, or everybody will want one!" My good lady and I saw the funny side, and how we chortled!

dilallio

I was out for dinner in a Chinese restaurant in the west when my friend spotted something hard in hiscurry. Turned out to be a large sewing needle. We called over the manager, who was delighted and said "The chef will be so happy - he has been looking everywhere for that".

My local village had a small chipper which only opened late at night at weekends. It was filthy but popular (only served chips, burgers or sausages) after the local nightclub would close. The owner sliced his palm open one night, while opening a bag of frozen chips. He continued to serve food with blood dripping over people's food. One girl even sent her chips back, complaining that she hadn't asked for ketchup!

NachoBusiness

Billy86 wrote: »

Chinese takeaways don't sell Chinese food, though.

Went to see Bruce Lee's 'Way Of The Dragon' last night and in it they poke fun at the west's notion of Chinese food when a group of Italians come in and start asking for Chinese Ribs. The Chinese guy says he has no idea what that means and never heard of Chinese Ribs. It gets a bit racist then as the Italian lifts the waiter's top up and bites his ribs and says, "That's Chinese ribs". They was murder then. Karate style.

snowgal

note to self- stop reading through this thread while eating lunch

podgemonster

I remember visiting a greasy chip van in my local town after the club, it can get be fairly hectic at 2am. The ould fella working in there was taking my friends order, then excuses himself. Heads out the back of the chipper and relieves himself. Comes back into the chipper rubs his hands on his filthy apron and goes...

"Right curry chips was it, here you are"

NachoBusiness

podgemonster wrote: »

I remember visiting a greasy chip van in my local town after the club, it can get be fairly hectic at 2am. The ould fella working in there was taking my friends order, then excuses himself. Heads out the back of the chipper and relives himself. Comes back into the chipper rubs his hands on his filthy apron and goes...

"Right curry chips was it, here you are"

Sounds like a scene from a Roddy Doyle novel.

Blitzkrieger

I was struggling to think of an answer that was worse than our canteen here in work and eventually remembered how terrible our "4 star" hotel in Tanzania was. Low quality ingredients badly cooked at outrageous (in local terms) prices. Service was poor too and there was only 5 of us ****ing there! The beer was nice though.

Our canteen in work is marginally better than a third world dump....

on_my_oe wrote: »

they found cat bits in the drains.

Maybe a cat fell in the drain? Maybe cat is delicious? Maybe the cutest kitten you've ever seen could be the tastiest meal you've never eaten?

MetalDog wrote: »

My parents were in a restaurant and they found ants crawling on the table.

I was in a restaurant once (outdoors) where there was really nothing they can do about them. Just distract them with a bit of food next to your plate and eat away!

whiskeyman

dilallio wrote: »

I was out for dinner in a Chinese restaurant in the west when my friend spotted something hard in hiscurry. Turned out to be a large sewing needle. We called over the manager, who was delighted and said "The chef will be so happy - he has been looking everywhere for that".

that had me in stitches...

Bulbous Salutation

Jan Laco wrote: »

Got a cheeseburger with no meat while din** ing in an Italian chipper in Terenure village.
Other times I noticed they left out items. So it seemed to me that they were robbing people that had a few drinks taken.

If it's the chipper in Terenure I'm thinking of then it wouldn't surprise me. Absolute bunch of nasty and obnoxious chancers. Food there is absolute swill as well.

MadsL

Working in gastropub I managed to send out a spent match in the boss's spaghetti. Words were had.

Adyx

MadsL wrote: »

Working in gastropub I managed to send out a spent match in the boss's spaghetti. Words were had.

Waterford?

MetalDog

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

I was in a restaurant once (outdoors) where there was really nothing they can do about them. Just distract them with a bit of food next to your plate and eat away!

Yeah, but this was an indoor restaurant, upstairs!

MadsL

Adyx wrote: »

Waterford?

Prague