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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The Happy Gardenin Chinatown, London. About 8 years ago, I reckon. I'm not a fan of Chinese food at the best of times but was particularly not in the mood for it that day. However, democracy (i.e., my mates simply ignoring my protests) won the day and we went.
Everybody ordered starters and main courses, but it all came out of the kitchen at the same time.
"Er," said one of our number, "can you please bring the main courses after we've eaten our starters?"
The waiter gave my friend a withering stare that lasted about 10 seconds then simply grabbed all our main courses and dropped the plates on the next empty table. Now, hot food has a habit of going cold when left sitting around on a table, so when we finished our starters and the waiter passed our mains from the next table, another of our number said, "Can we have this food hot please?"
The waiter lost it. "HOTFOOD??! YOU WANT HOTFOOD! GAH!" and stormed off leaving an underling to take care of re-heating and - presumably - spitting in our food and returning it.
One day they'll learn to listen to me. Hasn't happened yet, mind.
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Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Sat 29 Apr 2006, 14:48,
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