Worst restaurant you've dined at?

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Probably Holy Smokes in recent times. Appalling from start to finish, expensive, and I got the shits.
 
An Italian in our village that until that point had been brilliant. Ownership changed though and the next meal we had there was terrible. youngest daughter had a carbonara and the cream was clearly off, you could smell it. I took a mouthful and it was foul, I called the manager because the waiter wasn't having it was wrong, even the manager argued and walked off. Never went again.

A bit of Karma a few years later came with this:
http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/143...bis_farm_and__evidence_of_criminal_activity_/
 
Two from memory.

1. The winner, The University Curry House in Leeds circa 1982. Mate and I had been to "The Warehouse" club and emerged at 2a.m. half-cut and starving. Found this greasy spoon curry house and it was packed full of pissed-up students and clubbers scranning. Ordered a couple of beef madras with keema pilau rice which was delivered to us suspiciously quickly. A quick sample revealed why the curry had come so quick: it was no more than a bland slurry of mince with a sprinkling of curry spice in, obviously simmering away in a massive pan out the back. All the water had fallen out of the "curry" and the plain rice masquerading as pilau was swimming in it. To a pair of gentlemen weaned on curry in the fleshpots of Ocean Road this was a major cultural shock, but we muscled it down anyway and it was revolting, but we were clamming. At least it was fairly cheap.

2. Runner-up; the "restaurant" in the downstairs to the Kismet Club in Laygate, South Shields, behind The Brunswick iirc. Circa 1980. Pissed again, but this curry was sufficiently noxious that my memory of it has been auto-erased for the sake of my sanity. NB there were two "Kismet" curry houses, one as mentioned and the other in Frederick Street which was and still is quite a good restaurant,I understand.
 
Sebasaurus II said:
f***ing hell how could I forget Frankie and Bennies. I think I was only about 16 when I refused to set foot in the place again after eating there.



Two thirds of the places you mentioned were abroad iirc.
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You did recall correctly ... I was just being a dick towards a dickish comment from yourself iirc
 
Said it before but the Poachers at Thinford was the most scatter infested shithole I've ever been too . Also shout out to the Bridge Inn at Stapleton which is similar
 
natinnam said:
I've eaten mostly all over SE and East Asia, and some places would make the hardened northern bloke puke, a poor UK restaurant would be 5 stars in some of the outback places I've eaten. Some similar to the China one you mentioned, another shout to the place they were washing the frogs, vegetables etc in the urinal by pushing the flush button. Another where they were chasing the iguana around the tables, Benny Hill fashion to catch it for cooking. Oh and the toilets which made the trainspotting booth look presentable.

Cuba was hit and miss for me also, had some good stuff, but some terrible stew type dishes, plus the hotdog which i had to keep spitting the what ever animal bones out of me gob.
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Was in Qingdao in China having a business meeting and as is customary in some of the chinese restaurants we ate in a private room upstairs.
The meal was the normal shit they give you when showing off like sea cucumber, ducks tongues, chicken feet.

All went well until it hit my stomach and i had to go. Getting up to go i approached the stairs to go down to the bog only to be stopped by the waiter- " no sir - toilet there-" one foot from the table.
so in i go with a flimsy door and paper thin wall and f***ing explode. and i mean explode, followed by farts and shite everywhere.
Then the real panic set in, shit all over, spalsh back all over and I look for the bog roll and there is none.
for fuck sake- only one thing for it, off with the kegs and clean up.
put them down the bog and flushed, only the fucker didnt have any water in the cistern and it wouldnt flush.
So i leave the shit splattered bog with my kegs dumped in it to go back to the table.

and, of course as i sit down, one of the chinese gets up to go to the toilet.......
anyway, that was the worst place i have eaten.
 
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