worst meal you've had at a restaurant



Darlo1973 said:
Got taken to a seafood restaurant in Spain by a client where I couldn't eat anything on the plate. Went back to the hotel and ordered a burger.
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Had a similar experience in Frankfurt in some haute cuisine restaurant - it was fu**ing rank so barely touched any of it so went back to hotel and ordered room service.
 
Quincey's in Manchester with @ajthemackem

A mixed grill with some ribs that wouldn't have been out of place hanging out the side of a rustlers bun. Tasted like hot dog water. Everything else on the plate burnt to a crisp and dry as fuck.
 
Marco Pierre White in Newcastle.

The service and food was that bad the manageress came over to apologise and burst into tears (not because of us, just the pressure of running a shit restaurant)
We had to get her a chair and glass of water, she was shaking like a leaf.
They had 3 cracks and cooking chips, which they messed up, they were either raw, cold or burnt.
We ended up only paying £80 of the £400 bill.

The other one was Trust House Forte in Glasgow, we had booked a table for 12 and 2 people had got delayed on the train so there was only 10 of us.
We were the only people in the place and the waitress said she was going to charge us for the 2 empty seats.
She only backed down when we asked what the 2 people were going to eat exactly.
The meals turned up and you only got exactly what was listed, so if you ordered a burger, you got a burger, no bun, chips, salad etc, just a burger on a plate... for £15
 
pillars of hercules said:
Silksworth? The service was canny when I've been.
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Aye about 3-4 years ago. Took way over half an hour just to get our starter. Chased up on our meal a few times to be dismissed or ignored and not once did anyone apologise for the wait. We must have been in there about 2 or 3 hours for 3 courses.

A couple a few tables over went nuclear and stormed out over the waiting times, wish I'd followed them out the door tbh.
 
Italian Farmhouse East Rainton last year. It was just after they’d reopened after covid restrictions. The place was scruffy and the bait was lifting. Shame because it’d always been canny in there.
 
Arkle said:
I went to the one in Cambridge not long after it opened and it was very good, went back maybe a year to 18 months later and it was pretty poor.
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That was the same one I went to. The bar area was quite nice but the food was underwhelming and overpriced. It was a work do though so I wasn't paying. I just ordered more beer.
 
MackneyHackem said:
Surprised at that like. Is it under new ownership?
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This was just before they closed for what I think was when they added the main extension onto the restaurant.

Was never the same after they got rid of the old bar at the front.

Real shame as it used to knock out a really good standard of food for really reasonable prices for the standard, and was really handy as it was just down the road from where I live (Ryhope) there's literally nowhere half decent around that area.
 
The restaurant in the Baltic in Gateshead.

20 of us were there for a retirement do. It took 3 hours for the mains to arrive and when it did it was and oxo cube piece of steak and 2 cubes of potato the same size.
You could fit the whole meal on your fork. Glad I wasn't picking up the tab.

Went to Maccys on the way home
 
Lofoten islands in Norway with the captain of a trawler. Cod tongue. Cod livers and cold boiled roe with lutefisk ( rotten cod ). Washed down with that horrible spirit they drink. Nearly yoked with ever mouthful.
after forcing it down expressed how beautiful it was and was greeted with more platefuls of the filth.
Asked for a Bloody Mary to take the taste away. They didn’t have any tomato juice and made it with vodka and f***ing tomato ketchup.
 
ozz said:
Lofoten islands in Norway with the captain of a trawler. Cod tongue. Cod livers and cold boiled roe with lutefisk ( rotten cod ). Washed down with that horrible spirit they drink. Nearly yoked with ever mouthful.
after forcing it down expressed how beautiful it was and was greeted with more platefuls of the filth.
Asked for a Bloody Mary to take the taste away. They didn’t have any tomato juice and made it with vodka and f***ing tomato ketchup.
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Someone post that ‘dirty bastard’ gif please.
 
Another shout for No.2 Church Lane, unfortunately (I say that as I'd been when they first opened a few years back, and enjoyed it - our latest/final trip was a few weeks back). Our burgers were burnt to a crisp on the outside, and dry as a bone on the inside, to the point where they would "crumble". The chips, sorry, "fries" were soggy and greasy. The nachos were bland as owt, and tasteless. I'm still surprised we managed to locate our burgers and nachos, under the absolute deluge of melted cheddar that consumed our plates. Whilst I fully appreciate both nachos and cheeseburgers come with, well, cheese, I really didn't expect the aforementioned dairy product to be about half an inch thick on top of everything we ordered. I was half expecting to find the remains of an Atlantean empire under there, never mind a small, frazzled patty. Really poor. But, I'm sure they'll survive my review as they have a good reputation. Maybe a one-off.
 

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