Crap meals outI'd chosen to take my in-laws to one of my favourite restaurants, only to discover it had changed hands the week before. We waited half an hour to get menus. The waitress broke the cork in the wine we ordered. She got our order wrong. The food was luke-warm, mine was overcooked, the rest was undercooked. After waiting another 40 minutes for the last course, we were told that we couldn't have any as the chef had "forgotten to de-frost the puddings".
Let's just say they didn't get a tip. Tell us of your crap meals out.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 14:22)
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Does room service count?I was once staying in a hotel not far from Newcastle (named after the first American President, hint hint) and fancied a pizza. They had a "create your own" option so I rang down and asked for one with ham, pepperoni and pineapple, and two pints of Guinness to go with it. About half an hour later there was a knock at the door and there was my meal, hidden beneath an enormous silvery dome. I carried it to my table, had a sip of Guinness, and lifted the lid.
The pizza was about twelve inches across and you know how paracetamol tablets have that line across them so you can snap them? The pizza was divided in the same way, but half of it was canary yellow, the other pillar-box red, and it was completely and utterly flat on top - no raised lumps and bumps where the topping was. I stuck my knife in the red stuff, sniffed it and carefully gave it a lick. It was tomato ketchup. As for the yellow stuff I couldn't pierce it as it was a layer of cheese like linoleum, so I had to lift it. Beneath the cheese I found... three rashers of microwaved bacon.
Not wanting to send it back in case they gobbed on it or something I ate the unsullied rim, drank the Guinness, and dumped the tray outside.
(, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 15:10, Reply)
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