I think the worst meal I’ve had food wise is my recent foray in search of a good beef roll and soup dumplings. I ended up at a place called “Hidden Dumpling”. That was a hint. We shouldn’t have bothered looking. Absolutely awful.
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The worst experience I’ve had at a restaurant that comes to mind is in Maui this past December. We went to “The Feast at Lele”, a luau-style show and tasting menu ‘tour’ of Pacific Island cuisine. The food itself was ‘meh, whatever’, but the show was absolutely cringe inducing and made both myself and my partner feel like colonizing assholes for participating in the whole affair. But I suspect that says a lot more about us than it does about the show/meal itself.
Beyond those two, I think the worst combination of the two was at a local chain called ‘Mimosa House’ (a bad sign already) and we were just generally ignored by staff in favor of a party of loud, cackling retirees on their 3rd pitcher of whatevers, while we were served cold eggs, lukewarm tea and just generally had such an awful time that we left ANGRY, kind of like when you realize you just sat through Transformers 2 when you could have been doing something fun, like getting a colonoscopy. Bad food, unfriendly staff, awful patrons. A perfect storm of suck.
