What was the worst restaurant meal you ever had?

A recent meal, at a restaurant our daughter introduced us to.
I went with the day's special .. a dish of very small pasta in a broth, which was over-salted.
Because I didn't want to spoil the day, I said nothing.
I will eat there again, with daughter .. but, will order something else.
 
A chain restaurant (no long in business here) in which I ordered a turkey dinner. The meat didn't taste right. I turned it over and it was green and blue on the underside (I suspected mold). I summoned the waitress and she tried to blow it off by saying it was dye from the inspection stamp. I've never seen an inspection stamp on poultry.
 

It was a simple tuna melt in a small mom & pop restaurant in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

The thing was monstrous and must have had two cups of tuna salad and a quarter pound of cheese oozing out of it.

It tasted fine but when you tried to pick it up everything oozed out all over and made a disgusting mess.

I suppose that I could have been gracious and eaten it using a knife and fork but it just grossed me out.

The sandwich was bad enough but the waitress told the owner that I had a problem and that triggered a visit from the woman that owned the restaurant and included a lecture that I really wasn’t in the mood to hear.

I paid the bill and left a tip but that experience cost them more future business and money than they could ever imagine.
 
I have eaten in many countries in Europe as well as many restaurants cafes, etc here in the UK...

In Italy we were given horse meat burgers passed off as beef, that made everyone ill.....with the runs

Here in the UK...I was twice poisoned... once from a fish & chip shop near where my daughter lived at the time ... I have never eaten Fish & chips from a chip shop since and that was 14 years ago... and over 20 years ago at a pub near London Luton airport, I had a baked potato with seafood topping.. and got such vicious food poisoning my Doctor had to come to the house to give me a Trimethobenzamide injection, to stop the vomitting.

It took me a whole week to recover
 
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A lady friend and I went to a very well-known restaurant in Philadelphia because she had been dying to try it.
The food was rather average, imo, but not bad... per se.

We both ordered different choices, but they came with the same mixed vegetables and both tasted "off",
almost chemical tasting and after only we had a couple of bites we notified the waitress who gave us a different veggies option.

Later that night we were both violently ill and knew that something very bad happened to those veggies, in the kitchen
 
Pinky said:
A recent meal, at a restaurant our daughter introduced us to.
I went with the day's special .. a dish of very small pasta in a broth, which was over-salted.
Because I didn't want to spoil the day, I said nothing.
I will eat there again, with daughter .. but, will order something else.
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I'd never eat there again.
 
They opened a "gourmet" restaurant, and I was talked into going. The salad was 1 small lettuce leaf. What we thought was an appetizer was the main meal. This is not an exaggeration it took two bites to eat it. It took only 4 bites to eat the entire meal and it cost me over $100 - no alcohol/wine. We then all went to a Burger King.
 
About ten years ago I hiked across the Grand Canyon with a couple friends. This particular hike is 23 miles…and we did it in one day. I jumped in my car and drove to a Burger King in Flagstaff to grab a whopper before I drove to phoenix. As I was driving down the interstate I pulled out my whopper only to find it was someone else’s vegetarian burger…..
 
I ate at a church ham supper (a one where the church cooks and serves the food). Everything tasted fine, but that night I didn't know which end to put to the toilet first. My mom ate at the same dinner and didn't get sick.

I also had the same experience one New Year's eve about 7 years ago. I had eaten already cooked cod I got at the "grab and go" in the grocery.

I ate at an Indian buffet a while back. Although I didn't get the back door trots, I did considerable praying at the porcelain altar. All that came up were lentils. I reported it to the health dept. but can't say anything was done. They are still in business as far as I know.
 
We stopped at a restaurant just off the road from Cauguas, Puerto Rico to Ponce, Puerto Rico. Set back in the mountain side a beautiful outdoor setting overlooking a banana orchard. Ordered house speciality. Rice & beans, salad, pork chops, a chilled pitcher of red wine filled with fresh fruit.

Food came out looking fantastic. Befor I lifted a fork I noticed my white rice was moving. Not supposed to do that. Spotted a healthy fat white maggot making it's way to the edge of my plate. I called the waiter over to show him the protien crawling on my plate. He apologized & said I'll get you more rice. His plan was to scrape my pork chop onto a new plate of rice. Nope was not going to eat that. Everyone else ate their meal. The waiter made a big deal out of not charging me for my order.
 
While I was living in New York City, I went one day to an Indian restaurant with a friend. She had been there before. So I asked her to order something for me since I had no idea what to order. When the plate was put in front of me, it looked like an artist's palette. There was a glob of something blue, a glob of something yellow, a glob of something green, and maybe there was a 4th color also. I can't even recall what it tasted like. Since it was Indian, it probably was some what spicey. It just looked so unappetizing.
 
I was traveling through the Sierra-Nevada Mountains with some buddies heading towards Lake Tahoe and we stopped on top of a mountain I think called Donner Pass. There was a restaurant on top of the mountain and there were several logging trucks parked there, so we decided to stop and have some dinner.

We were out of uniform, so I guessed we looked like a bunch of punks out for a joyride. When we went inside, we saw about a half dozen men that looked like real mountain men type with beards and they looked like they may not have shaved or showered that month yet. I ordered hot roast beef sandwich with French fries and potato salad.

When it came to the table, I wasn’t sure what it was. My buddy asked ”what the hell do you have there?” I told him hot roast beef sandwich. He said “it looks like road kill.” He said it a little loud and I was embarrassed. I felt like.everyone was looking at us.

It was salty and I didn’t eat it. We paid our tab and left. Headed down to Lake Tahoe and Reno the next day. Beautiful area.
 
Oh let me count...first off people in Ks do not know how to cook.However cooking varies among us all, even in the US. I was on a business luncheon in Wisconsin once um early 80's. Ordered a burger and the. Lol Meat and bread, must order the condiments and tea was hot tea. OM. that is when I learned we all do not eat the same . They did have some dang good foods otherwise. Back on subject,- we have been to several places in the surrounding prairie lands, and well it is just pitiful. Good thing we do not like to eat out much.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
They opened a "gourmet" restaurant, and I was talked into going. The salad was 1 small lettuce leaf. What we thought was an appetizer was the main meal. This is not an exaggeration it took two bites to eat it. It took only 4 bites to eat the entire meal and it cost me over $100 - no alcohol/wine. We then all went to a Burger King.
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yep the pricier the food, smaller portions and big price. I found that out also the hard way
 
hollydolly said:
I have eaten in many countries in Europe as well as many restaurants cafes, etc here in the UK...

In Italy we were given horse meat burgers passed off as beef, that made everyone ill.....with the runs

Here in the UK...I was twice poisoned... once from a fish & chip shop near where my daughter lived at the time ... I have never eaten Fish & chips from a chip shop since and that was 14 years ago... and over 20 years ago at a pub near London Luton airport, I had a baked potato with seafood topping.. and got such vicious food poisoning my Doctor had to come to the house to give me a Trimethobenzamide injection, to stop the vomitting.

It took me a whole week to recover
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I ate in one of those mall eating places and Chinese.. never ever again .. I will starve first!
 
Went out for lunch with friends at a hotel in Adelaide, I decided I’d just settle for the roast of the day which was beef
I was served frozen deli type sliced corned beef …with lumpy cold white sauce ….when I said that’s not a roast he smirked and said it is today “Darling” …:sick::sick:
Never been back there .
 
Went to a popular restaurant with a friend for lunch. They had a dish that I had before; it was delicious. It was more of an appetizer than a course.

A gorgonzola dip with crunchy garlic toast that you dipped into the cheese. When it came I was horrified that it tasted terrible, like something had gone bad so we sent it back.

I decided to have a Ruben Sandwich and it came without the sauerkraut! Well I think that was the last time I went there. I should give it another chance because usually their food is very nice.
 
In Egypt ...

It was a stop along the way during a day of sightseeing ancient pyramids. Not the famous ones at Giza. We’d spent the previous day exploring those in depth. This was the next day, when we boarded a bus and roamed the arid Egyptian countryside, visiting pyramids much older than the big three at Giza. These lesser known and smaller structures were scattered across the desert, weathered and timeworn.

At midday, we had a scheduled stop for lunch. The meal was set up as an open-air affair, covered, but still very much outdoors. Obviously great care had been given to meal preparation and presentation. And under different circumstance might have been quite appealing. The dishes were colorful and artfully arranged, though I couldn’t identify everything on offer from the unfamiliar Egyptian cuisine.

But there was one glaring, inescapable problem.

In the searing heat of mid-day, there were hordes of flies feasting on our lunch. Oh, not just the annoying fly here and there ... oh no, no, this was an onslaught, a biblical plague of flies,

No one in the tour group, absolutely no one, partook of the meal. Lunch consisted of bottled water and colas. It may have been a tragic waste of food. I say "may have been" because I have no idea what the hosts may have done with the food.
 
Naturally said:
In Egypt ...

It was a stop along the way during a day of sightseeing ancient pyramids. Not the famous ones at Giza. We’d spent the previous day exploring those in depth. This was the next day, when we boarded a bus and roamed the arid Egyptian countryside, visiting pyramids much older than the big three at Giza. These lesser known structures were scattered across the desert, weathered and timeworn.

At midday, we had a scheduled stop for lunch. The meal was set up as an open-air affair, covered, but still very much outdoors. Obviously great care had been given to meal preparation and presentation. And under different circumstance might have been quite appealing. The dishes were colorful and artfully arranged, though I couldn’t identify everything on offer from the unfamiliar Egyptian cuisine.

But there was one glaring, inescapable problem.

In the searing heat of mid-day, there were hordes of flies feasting on our lunch. Oh, not just the annoying fly here and there ... oh no, no, this was an onslaught, a biblical plague of flies,

No one in the tour group, absolutely no one, partook of the meal. Lunch consisted of bottled water and colas. It may have been a tragic waste of food. I say "may have been" because I have no idea what the hosts may have done with the food.
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what a dirty dump Egypt is... I would never go there again......
 

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