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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They have some great strong grog too...While in Kosice, Slovakia last year (for a conference with many other geeky science types), we all stopped off at one of the more traditional restaurants in town. Now for the most part the food was cracking and the menu threw up some of the best attempted translations in history (examples being "Dainty of Granny" and "Chimney Sweep's Balls"). At the dessert stage however, it started to become obvious that they hadn't accounted for so many customers in one evening: all 20-odd of us went for their speciality, some bizarre pancake-like construction with everything added. At my end of the table, we were not only the fastest eaters but nearest the kitchen and so were getting our orders in first. What we got was great, but as these things were delivered further and further down the table, vital ingredients (sauce, fruit and ultimately pancake itself) started to go missing - no prior explanation, just a sheepish "sorry, out of fruit now" etc as they put the plates down . The poor bastards at the far end ended up with plain ice-cream in place of the intended central European dessert extravaganza. Too late to share any of mine tho'.
(, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 17:18, Reply)
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