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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Turtle powerI was once a sales manager for a company in the forest of dean where ALL the pubs make hammer horror pubs (you know, strange locals that stop talking when you come in and stare at you because you've only got two eyes, that sort of thing)look like TGI's on payday, but I digress.
A sales/training meeting was arranged for a hotel in Ross on Wye (the one you can see from the M50). All 38 of us arrived and we were the only ones in the hotel. Dinner was called at 7:30, soup already on the table, lukewarm and congealing MMMMM!.We were then told there was no choice of main course, we were all having chicken!! TWO HOURS AND FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER the chicken arrived. Sauce welded to the plate and the chicken so overdone that a knife couldn't cut it, the only way to get any meat was to turn the chicken breast over and scrape out the last undried bits. Cue the Maitre D' getting the worst bollocking of his life, the waiters getting pelted with the dried chicken (which looked like turtle shells hence the title)and my boss getting us all to decamp to ALL the pubs in Ross to A/get horrifically drunk and B/tell everyone we met just exactly how shit the hotel/service/food was. The only guy of our party who did eat all of his meal ended up in hospital with a tear in his stomach lining, probably caused by the chicken!
Happy days.
(, Sat 29 Apr 2006, 12:01, Reply)
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