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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Meal Time for Torch HeadI think the scariest meal-out experience I had was in New York last year - and it didnt even involve a meal. The food in New York was generally amazing, and the portions were American sized obviously - but one place really put me off eating for quite a while....
It was opposite our hotel in Queens - a place promising Thai Food, Steaks, Cocktails...all of my favourite things. So me and the missus went in - to what can only be described as some small, gloomy warehouse with a bar. The only other people in there was some malnourished looking thai family sat at a table at the back. Not that it was easy to see them, with the whole place being in near darkness and lit only by about 2 candles. Before we could scarper, a waitress had appeared, sat us down and handed us the menus. We then sat there, trying to read the menus in the dark with the light from our mobile phones. I was about to try and leave with the excuse being that we couldnt even read the menu, when out of the darkness suddenly appeared a wizened old Thai man with an eyepatch, who grinned like a maniac and handed us a small torch. That was the final straw, and we made our excuses and left.
I expect there's a similarly themed restaurant being opened up in London as we speak, and it will cost a small fortune to eat there.
(, Tue 2 May 2006, 14:26, Reply)
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