Probably the Indian restaurant in downtown. I love Indian food, and there’s so many other delicious places to eat I have no idea how this place is still open. The one time I went it was so dirty I could see the dirt on the bathroom door from a distance. The food was spiceless, bland, and generally tasted like trying to make American flavored Indian food. I, and everyone I’ve talked to who’s eaten there, got food poisoning afterward.
It’s almost comically bad. I’m convinced it’s a front for some other operation because this place has been open for years.
I should put this in the funny date stories thread maybe but when I was younger, my friend and I tried to go on a date, just to see (turned out no, we were just friends, still are 35 years on) and ordered soup at a restaurant.
We had the worst waiter EVER. He said the soup was dried out but he could ask them to put some water in it, made it sound so unappetizing when we wouldn’t have even known, I mean it’s soup, right? I can’t remember all the other bad descriptions, but he was just not cut out for the job. The food was fine when it arrived, even after his attempt to downplay it. Just the waiter was the worst.
We drove from Illinois to Florida and stopped at a local chain in Alabama along the way called Milo’s. It had great reviews and people said you had to get the burger with the special sauce or whatever it was called. Let me tell you that this “burger” was very reminiscent of my grade school lunches when they would serve “Salisbury steak with gravy” in the little paper containers that you had to pinch the corner to peel the film off and eat. Now while usually this would be a lesson in how terrible us school lunches are, this is more of a lesson in how bad the food in Alabama is in that the local people think that this is good enough food to pay someone real money for it.
Adding 2nd reply here as I remembered the kebab place where I projectile vomited into my hands while running to the bathroom after eating a couple of bites. Nope.
A long john silvers that hadn’t changed their fry oil in way too long. I couldn’t stand to be in the building let alone eat their food.
*Long Johns, for those that don’t have them, is a fast food seafood restaurant. Position them well below McDonalds when it comes to quality of food and expectations.
Chain seafood restaurants absolutely fucking terrify me because it feels so easy for me to get so fucking ill. I know that, rationally, Chicken is probably a much more effective disease vector but I have really fucking been burned by seafood in the past.
It was a local restaurant run by a shady businessman who’s known for running less than good quality restaurants. Whatever, I figured, it was cheap and close to my house.
Except me and my family were served rotten meat when we ate there. The manager only wanted to give us a 20% discount. Like hell I’m paying for rotten food. Never again.