30 Red Flags To Keep An Eye On To Spot A Bad Restaurant, As Shared On This Online Group

ELEPHANT!!! Noooooo.

Well maybe their elephant meat dish is overcooked

*Sighs*

JESUS! Such horrid story with no warning!

You can avoid this issue by only patronizing places that have popcorn. Of course, I could think this because I love popcorn and think everyone should serve it.

Thanks for the tip!

Good to know - but what if they have that smell at a movie theatre and the popcorn is stale - so how do you know which is which!!!!???

Cool pic, the woman looks like she's floating above the floor. She must be sitting on a stool or something.

Don't worry, all Thai menus are like that.

It looks like she's flying above water!

From what I read, it's just for TV show, once camera off, he's quite nice person. And also certain amount of British humour and attitude is involved.

Why don't harassment laws apply in restaurant kitchens?

Gordon Ramsey can go F himself.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

The last time we went to what had been our favorite sushi place the bathroom was really dirty. We never sent back and they were closed down by the health dept not long after.

Factually kitchen staff isn’t in charge of bathrooms so

Money laundering?

I have walked out before when food still hasn't appeared in an hour after ordering.

Yes. At most, it should smell like the ocean.

On the flip side - if you ask the server “Is the fish fishy?”, what we hear is “I know that I like some kinds of fish and I don’t like other kinds of fish, but I have no clue about their names or which is which at this point, and I am hoping you can tell me, but since you don’t have access to the inner workings of my brain and don’t know where I’m drawing the line between good fish and bad fish, this is all just a dumb game where I demand you help me, but really you can’t, and that’s no one’s fault, and I’ll probably order a fish dish that I will send back and will impact your tips at the end of the night, and if I had a clue I would just order the chicken.”

Well in the NYC area, it is quite common to find in many kosher place both Pizza and Sushi. Many dairy kosher restaurants have both on the menu. Many are quite good

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I'll take one of each

I know someone who owns a seafood/burger place (it's called Cowfish, and I would recommend if you're visiting Raleigh, North Carolina) but that's just kind of the culture of my state lol

What if I'm in the mood for a sushi pizza rolled into a burrito. What then?

my favorite restaurant does this but fortunately they just outsource the sushi to the restaurant down the hall in the mall which specialises.

Also, dirty floors are just nasty, even if they’re cleaning everything else.

Massively disagree on this, I went to a 3* Michelin restaurant, turned up 10 minutes before service started, there was a staff huddle in the car park, service staff mainly, all late teens early 20's, did a massive group high 5 on the end of it, good to see that level of teamwork and not something I'd seen before.They were all impeccable and the service was excellent (their boss has won many, many awards), an utter credit to their employer and themselves.

This ! A nice little restaurant in Rome, just accross the street of the Colloseum. Wonderfull view, espetially durring the sunset. Worst pizza I've seen and tasted in my life 😝

our coastal "restaurants" outside of capetown are kak, to say the best of them. oven chips, hotdogs, and burgers below macdonald's quality. avoid.

Yes or in big cities , especially Paris - Paris serves good food generally but stay away from Gare du North or St Michelle

Your beef stew is only one microwave 'ding' away.

Ok but that spread in the pic looks f****n amazing.

Why does "elderly diner = bland food"?

I can deal with poor lighting as I'm sensitive to bright light, but can't do sticky tables.

Not necessarily a problem, it could just be fries and onion rings. I also hate to tell everyone but unless you are on the shore and you know the fried seafood is fresh, it's probably from Sysco and it's delicious!

Only a rich person would be this judgemental.

What's the problem with an innocent roachie, trying to feed on mid-priced meal, for a change? Stop being so judgemental, people 🙄

A couple of friends and I were at a restaurant in New Orleans when one of them watched in horror as a roach crawled across the floor. Our server stepped on it and said "y'all aren't from around here, are you?"

Many, many years ago, a bunch of people I worked with here in Japan went to a company party at a restaurant. The food was not very good ... and they were really stingy with it, very small portions, very slow bringing it out, etc. In the middle of dinner, we saw a cockroach on the wall. So we all decided to leave, but since it was "all you can drink", everybody ordered more beer first. When we got outside, almost everybody had taken a bottle with them, even though we weren't supposed to. I'd never done that before, and have never done it since, but that restaurant totally deserved it

My sister and I were in a restaurant with an outside part in Corfu. We had a praying mantis and a gecko visit us while we were eating. We were really chuffed to see the wildlife

Ah, to be fair, one of the best meals I ever had was at a tiny local Restaurant in rural France, where the owner / Chef bought his ingredients for the day at the local market, then made his menu round those ingredients. 2 chalkboards outside told you what was on offer and you had to wait for a table as the locals always got there early. I forget what I'd ordered (possibly an Ossobuco style dish and my girlfriend had a parma wrapped Chicken dish). Both were stupendous - we were almost the last people to get food that evening and the locals who'd arrived late had a few drinks and wandered off, not unhappy, but a bit dissappointed that he'd run out of food. Had a chat with the owner afterwards in my really bad French and he stated that he would only cook for the number of people that would'nt put him under stress but would make him a decent living, something he seemed to have achieved. Went back many years later, the restaurant was there under new management. It wasn't the same.