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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french food and serviceoi tartful splodge -
as a paris resident, and a regular travller to montpellier, i found there's a way to ensure good service - be polite, smile,speak the language, and all is well. the only bad service i've had here was in a o'paddys plastic irish boozer.... and had lots of excellent food, superb service, and as to wine - you carry on with the new world ribena, leave wine to the grown ups.
I spend most of my time in parts foreign, so have eaten in a lot of restarants - and as the company pay, they're inevitably good ones. you rather gve the game away with the comment about new world wines being cheaper - i suspect you read menu prices before going into a restaurant, on the basis that cheaper=better....
follow basic rules. don't eat in empty restaurants. dont arrive 5 mins before closing and expect them to be over the moon to see you.
if you dont like something, complain. if the waiter is rude and insulting, let them know that you understood the insults, and replying that you think they are rude, ignorant of foods, and badly brought up usually does the trick.
calgulus - spot on.
(, Tue 2 May 2006, 17:41, Reply)
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