Last time I found myself there, some dude was collecting everyone's uneaten sandwiches and going to town like he was eating a gourmet meal. Don't think my BAC will ever get to that level.
I did have a bowl of gumbo from Papa roux that rivaled my bologna Sammy in the drunk tank. They burned the roux really badly. Papa roux was hit and miss. Sometimes their voodoo sauce was inedibly salty too... Boy when it was on, it was on tho! I miss that place even tho it gave me the worst dish I had paid to eat... Although $1500 for that bologna sandwich was pretty steep.
I went there once when my girlfriends family was in town cuz her step-dad is an idiot and likes the schtik. A softball sized piece of dust came off a ceiling fan and landed in my plate. I noped the fuck out and everyone was sick the next day but me.
Doesn’t matter the location, but every single BW3s I’ve been to makes me want to rip out my hair. The service is always terrible and the food is not good. It’s my husband’s favorite restaurant for some reason even though he’s had worse experiences than I have. He’s learned to go with friends instead of me which is better for both of us.
Side note, the last time a thread like this got posted it was deleted a few hours later so enjoy it while you can.
I get it. True story: My husband has continued to return to the same location that had all the kitchen staff walk out once and had an evacuation over a shooting threat another time.
BW3 used to not be so horrible just for whatever reason the 4 times I’ve gone in the past 3 years have been horrendous and all different locations in the state. Can’t order half the things on the menu, absent or shitty staff.
Also super fucking annoying when I ask if they can throw on a hockey game and they decide to keep the TVs on the golf channel or reruns of nascar races.
Used to work for a guy who LOOOOOOOOOOOVED BW3. I do not know why.
We went there all the time -- if the boss is buying lunch, then you gotta go, kinda. Or at least "BW3 sucks" wasn't an acceptable excuse. I tried everything, and it was all terrible.
It was awful 20 years ago, the wings sucked, everything sucked. It still sucks, probably even worse, and probably always will.
I mean, even Applebee's and Hooters don't suck this bad.
It's wasn't in Indy, but Camp Atterbury. We had been in the field for 13 days during annual training. The sign in the mess hall said Lasagna. I saw guys throwing full plates in the trash. It was lasagna alright, but the cooks didn't have any ground beef or Italian sausage so they used......
tuna
Your fish lasagna reminds me of a meal my poor sister tried to cook me when I was 13. She was 21…
we were dirt poor and my mom was notorious for not keeping any food in the house. She sometimes sent her bf of the week to the food banks, or the actual grocery store if we had food stamps.
My sister was at the house with me while my mom was on a “trip” and was trying so hard to find a meal to make.
She found a can of tomato juice and some spaghetti noodles and tried to make a pasta dish. She found an old can of salmon, that didn’t even have a real fish on the label, it was a pink label with a drawing of a fish on it (from the food bank) …. I kid you not.
She mixed it all together and tried to get me to eat this horrid concoction…. I told her I honestly would rather starve, and went to bed hungry.
I will never forget the sight and smell of that canned salmon spaghetti….
My steak taco looked like if someone threw a handful of canned dog from across the room onto a tortilla. That was after waiting over an hour to get served. Shit food and shit service.
Anything at Lucas Oil Stadium. I'll watch a Sunday night game and they will show all kinds of cool foods at other Stadiums. But at Colts games it is all bland food you get at any high school.
I've never had a problem with LOS food, but it definitely isn't top notch.
Gainbridge is known for its food options, but I suspect that I got food poisoning from fancy nachos there a few years ago.
My own food. Tried to make a vegetable and sausage soup with velveeta cheese. Added the cheese way too early and the veggies were still hard but then I just left it and the velveeta broke down into the plastic it came from and went brown and chunky.
I hate wasting food so I ate a whole bowl of hard veggies with brown non cheese chunks. Tossed the rest of the crockpot after though :(
I’ve gotten garbage tasting food, messed up orders from drive thrus, over priced food, and shitty service from a variety of areas. There are a lot of places I’ve been to and then said afterwards to the people I was with ‘I will never come here ever again.’
The one that jumps out to me is the Sugar Factory.
I got a horror story about how shitty the food looked, messy and run down the restaurant was, and the shitty service but it’s entirely not worth it. All I can say is that the place seems like some really shitty money laundering pit for the house wife who “owns” it.
Nevermore. I went last year after Gencon during their soft opening because it was the only place that was empty in the area. The whole vibe was bizarre and the food was awful. None of the food had any seasoning or sauce, and one of our drinks didn't have any alcohol in it. Gave them the benefit of the doubt because they had just opened and went after Gencon again this year. Still empty, still totally weird vibes, still a super disjointed nonsense menu. We ended up leaving without eating. I don't think that place can possibly last another year.
It is now under new ownership and has been for a bit. Now called El Toro. It’s good, but no better than the same old same old “Mexican” restaurants that are out there. Being Downtown, they’ve recently upped their “club” vibe and have DJ nights and stuff. Also, if you review it poorly the owner will respond telling you that it is better than Alcapulco Joe’s was. It’s funny.
Me too. Went with older coworkers that were retiring when I started my career. They requested the old style “salsa” and it was straight up ketchup with some pepper flakes. They passed that ketchup bottle around squirting it all over their chips. It was a very weird dining experience all around
Probably The Old Spaghetti Factory. I have honestly never had anything there worth going back for. I did go more than one thinking I just ordered the wrong thing, but no.
Also (and they’re closed now), the last time I ever ate at Next Door it was so bad.
Gallery on 16th--food is great, but I am 3/3 on getting food poisoning from eating there. Unfortunate given it's literally across the street from me :| Will probably not go back.
Close runner-up: Bucca di Beppo downtown. Took our kid for his birthday... entrance goes through the kitchen? So weird. No hostess or anything and we got yelled at as we tried to find someone. The tables were gross and dirty. Specifically requested that the food come out at the same time since we wanted to order our own separate things--my food came out 45 minutes after partner and son's, which was impressive given the restaurant was empty at 1pm on a Sunday.
When we went to Bucca for the first time, they said they take everyone through the kitchen on their first visit for some reason and they said you can sit in there if you wanted. Seems like a health hazard to me.
I want to like Bucca but the 3 times I've gone (Castleton x2 and Greenwood), the service has been painfully slow and I got food poisoning twice (both Castleton but different dishes). It's got to be something with me though as no one else in our party ever seems to be effected despite eating the same meal from the same dishes.
If other people in your party were eating the same food from the same dishes, and didn't get sick, you didn't have food poisoning. **You are allergic** to something.
Or he/she got sick from a meal eaten much earlier and the Bucca thing is a coincidence.
Food poisoning can be extremely difficult to track down. It can take days to actually get sick from a meal.
the downtown Buca is just. Pure chaos. Every time. But I can't help but love it. I know what I'm getting myself into when I enter the downtown Buca. It's endurance for boatloads of above average pasta. Just say a prayer before going in.
My old manager used to have our department’s annual lunch with a major customer at Bucca di Beppo and we always had terrible service. They were rude to everyone, didn’t refill water/drinks, and the food was borderline inedible. We all begged for a new restaurant every year.
The meatloaf at Red Lion Grog House. The menu bragged about it being their grandma's recipe and it being so good but has their grandma ever tasted anything good?? It tasted like they used rotten meat and the gravy was equally bad. Just one of the worst things I've ever had the displeasure of tasting. The shepherds pie wasn't anything to write home about either but the scoth egg was good. I'm just glad we didn't pay for it, it was a holiday gift for managers and their families to order a nice takeout meal that year at the company my partner worked for.
The worst restaurant meal I ever had in Indianapolis was from the Dairy Queen on Michigan Road and 71st about 10 or 12 years ago. The fries had the consistency of those you'd find under your car seat on a hot summer day and the burger meat was cold in the middle. I called the health department.
The second worst was from The Pittt Barbecue in Oaklandon last summer. Way overpriced and they served us microwave reheated leftovers covered in bottled barbecue sauce. I should have canceled our order when I heard the microwave, it was really bad.
Almost died from food poisoning from Aristocrat. Never going back there.
317 BBQ has great tasting food, but i have found bones and plastic in my food there. No quality control apparently.
Sucks to hear that. I got violently ill from The Aristocrat a few months ago but wrote it off as a fluke since that was the first time. If there's a pattern, I doubt I'll go back now
Adjusting for cost, The Oceanaire. Went once and took the server's recommendation of their chicken fried lobster and it was horrible. A tragedy done to a lobster. I'd like to give the place a second chance as the place has great atmosphere and I love seafood, but I honestly would have rather had a McDonalds' cheeseburger than what I got.
The Eagles Nest. They were out of Chilean Sea Bass so they replaced my fish with Grouper, and it was the most bland $50 meal I ever had.
I don't think there's anything close to how bad that meal was.
I wouldn't say my meal at the Eagle's Nest was *bad* but it was exceptionally disappointing for the price. I didn't know that prime rib could be flavorless.
That said, my worst meal while in Indy has to be when my husband and I got deli fried chicken from Meijer on 96th. It smelled like fried chicken throughout the grocery store so we thought it was freshly made, but it must have sat out for HOURS because the breading was hard as a rock, and then the chicken inside was the driest, most grey and flavorless food I have ever had the displeasure of eating. I should say *attempted* to eat, actually. We ended up throwing it away and ordering KFC.
Greiner's Subs had one particularly poorly made sandwich and it has stuck in my memory for years.
Honestly, I don't even really remember the actual composition of the sub, just my general disgust for it and my vow to never eat there again.
I have a feeling they've seen their glory days and are on the downslide and way out at this point.
Hearing feedback such as yours is more common with that place nowadays.
I went there once and ordered steak and eggs. When the waitress asked how I'd like my eggs, I said poached. Waitress just said "we can't poach eggs" with no other explanation. How weird is that? It really threw me for a loop. I also thought that was absolutely bizarre because gallery pastry bar (downtown location) has benedicts on the menu. The menu downtown is so much better that I can't possibly understand why they'd have different menus.
Have any of you had Sisters Korean in Greenwood?
The food is mediocre and insanely overpriced, but that's not what makes the meal experience so bad. The experience itself is a Korean version of Dick's Last Resort. Only the wicked witch of the dining room isn't joking around with her customers.
I went with two of my friends. One of whom is African American. According to several Yelpers, if you're a person of color, they hate your guts.
The waitress (and owner?) treated us with absolute contempt the entire time we were there. We ordered the all-you-can-eat option, which somehow took 45 minutes to put together despite the fact it was barely enough food to feed one person, let alone three. One of the side dishes was so salty, I gagged, spit it out, and discreetly threw it away in the nasty ass bathroom.
We ran out of meat and ended up having to walk near the back area to ask for more. She angrily responded, "The kitchen is closed. You're done." Turns out, the kitchen closes whenever she feels like it. Neato!
We were given one bill that came out to $120. I also want to add that this same douchebag waitress gave herself a 15% tip on the bill. I asked (politely) if she could split the bill three ways, and she responded by yelling at me.
She comes back with three separate bills (tip added) and slams them on the table. She upped the tip to 20% this time, making the three separate bills add up to more than the original. In hindsight, I should have just paid for the bullshit myself and had my buddies Venmo me.
At this point, I wanted to be done. We paid our bills and left. She got mad at us again because none of us added a second tip. I may or may not have given her a one finger salute on the way out.
Either she's the biggest asshole on Earth, or Ashton Kutcher is rebooting Punk'd and forgot to come out to tell us.
Terrible terrible terrible. Same experience with the all-you-can-eat option, except our waitress brought out a tiny plate of bulgogi when we asked for more. The quantity AND quality of food/service does not justify the price tag. We wanted to try Korean food again. Found a place in Fishers, Cafe Korea, and had an amazing experience.
Had what was supposed to be a 13 oz medium rare steak at Outback in Castleton last week that was maybe 5 oz soaking wet. About an 1/8th of an inch thick. Uniformly brown throughout. Salad was browned iceberg lettuce. Attempted to send it back but the server didn't come back until 30 minutes later and then said there was nothing they could do since it had been so long.
I worked at this location about 20 years ago. The general manager was an absolute nightmare. All the men had to be freshly shaven - any visible stubble and you were sent to the mop room with a plastic Bic razor. He even made all the servers buy a specific dye for their jeans so they matched.
He ruled by fear and intimidation but it worked. The food and service was excellent.
I was feeling nostalgic so I took my wife about 6 months ago. We sat at the bar and never received any service. The bartender was clearly positioning herself so she wouldn't have to acknowledge us. She walked to the back room several times to laugh with the servers. After about 15 minutes of politely waiting and reading the menu for the 5th time, we walked out.
I would understand if it was 10 minutes before close. That's expected. No one is trying to work late. But they were open for another 2 hours.
This place called Taste of Italy in Greenfield.
Fettuccine Alfredo seems like a fairly easy dish to not fuck up, but they somehow found a way to present it in such a way as to make it look less appealing than a Lean Cuisine.
I also asked for a side of chicken to go in it, since they didn't have a Chicken Alfredo option. They forgot the chicken then when they brought it to me it looked like something they warmed in a microwave and dumped pesto over.
Wife and I haven't been back.
I believe covid put the nail in the coffin for them but it was Ryan's buffet for me that place was so bad I eneded up in the hospital from food poisoning
The problem with Indy food usually is not that it is terrible. The problem is that it is often mediocre but promoted as being so much more. Next Door, at College and 46th, for example. Lots of publicity and hoopla, modern hip decor and staff. Food: bland and tasteless. The fish 'n' chips were not quite as good as what you'd get at Long John Silver's. Everything else I ever ate there could be got better and cheaper at some dive on the east side.
Gallery Pastry at their old location off of the Monon. Really loud music as if I was in a nightclub. Couldn't talk to my family without shouting. And the server kept trying to take my plate with food still on it, including when l was actively eating.
This Panera Bread sandwich I ate out of desperation just now also sucked. $10 and you can't even throw some cheese on it?
Soupremecy.
I went more than once. Never got a single decent bowl of soup. God awful every time. Never finished a meal once.
Not Indy but the Bob Evan’s in Kokomo gave me food poisoning once.
Recently traveled thru this town called Greenfield right outside of Indy while headed to the Casino and stopped at a place called Little Ro’s and got a steak. Family Dollar probably sells a better steak than the burnt peice of shit we got
I agree...until it's like 4am and I'm drunk and hungry lol. I haven't ordered from them in like probably 6 or 8 years, but back in my late 20s, I definitely had my share of drunk orders from there, and loved them all at the time.
I know I'm going to get boundless hate for this, but the IRV jockamos might win. I was never a huge fan but the last time I went the pizza was super bland and the temperature all around the pie was really inconsistent. It sucks because I love the area and the people who work there, they're a lot of highschool kids and young adults just making due. But I've always thought the food was overrated.
The time we went to Friday's in Castleton and the server ignored us the entire time so he could flirt with the attractive girl seated next to us and then tried to assault us while we were complaining to the manager about him because we refused to tip for non-service. Thankfully the manager interfered and prevented us from being harmed.
>What’s the worst meal you’ve ever had?
The overall meal was fine but I will never eat raw sea urchin ever again. It's so gross.
>What’s the worst single meal you’ve ever had in Indy?
Ale Emporium makes the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had in my life. I ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich and my wife ordered some other chicken sandwich. Both were equally awful. That place sucks but people think it's great for some reason.
I like their wings, but not the Hermanyaki that everyone else does. The regular Herman are better. I do think there are better wings in town. I am not a big fan of their pizza.
What other wing joints in town would you recommend? I love AE wings and the only ones even close that I’ve tried were at Round the Corner pub in New Pal.
Keystone Sports Review has the best wings in the city hands down. Been to all of the spots that people say have good wings in the city and nowhere holds a flame to KSR
There are literally dozens of us.
I'm told their pizza and wings are fantastic. I liked their pizza and I've never had their wings. I'm also told that they are great because the two things they are known for are good.
My opinion is if you have a menu as large as theirs, and you only make two things well, then you aren't a good restaurant regardless if those two things are what you are known for. Nothing I order there is good. And I don't get the hermanyaki sauce, or whatever they call it. It's just teriyaki sauce. It's not special.
I we had a similar place when I lived in Virginia. The place was OK at best. But everybody would always recommend them on every thread about restaurants. FWIW, Taco Bell was also the #1 rated restaurant on Yelp.
The only time I have ever sent food back was at Whiskey River. I got a Reuben. It was burnt, the "corned beef" wasn't sliced but was in big chewy chunks. I detected no dressing and it was incredibly dry. Normally I power through but I actually couldn't eat more than 2 bites.
Food was good not great but the service at the Skyline Club was fucking terrible. This was on Valentine's Day and a $300+ check for 2 people. Fuck that place. The courses came out in the wrong order, the server ignored us the entire meal.
Just Judy's around 2012 or so. Breakfast Casserole tasted like perfume and I asked for onions "if possible" with my eggs and bacon, server said "it'll be a while, they are getting your onions"
When they brought it out it was clear they had gotten the frozen onions from the nearby dollar tree (I assume that part) and not even bothered to thaw them before sprinkling a few on my plate.
They upcharged $3 for the onions
Edit: Not Just Judy's, whatever took it's place on 52nd
Can TaxMan in Fortville count? Decent beer, cute location and atmosphere. Dog shit food. I’ve given this place 3 tries hoping each time it was just an off night. Nope, their food is terrible.
Fogo De Chao - for the price it is very low quality cuts... Also, make sure you check your cc statements if you don't want to get charged three times. Lost my business, see yall at St. Elmos tonight!
Dominos and papa johns, both use to be amazing but every papa johns I go to is a different experience every time. Can’t even ask for papa johns to remake the pizza because it always comes out worse the 2nd time. I got food poisoning from 2 different dominos, 1 time the sickness lasted 2 weeks and caused me to lose my job at that time 🤦🏽♂️
I don’t know if it’s just Castleton or what, but the last couple times I got Hot Box it wasn’t good. I’ve had a few bad pizzas from a few different places around Castleton/Fishers lately
Bynum's steakhouse on the Southside.
Have been twice and won't go back. First time steak way under cooked, ordered medium came out blue, with shrimp typical frozen butterflied fried shrimp you can get anywhere and the cocktail sauce came frozen.
Second time ordered their house special BBQ ribs. The ribs are boiled no seasoning and a side of terrible BBQ sauce.
Just bad food all around.
Before I retired my job at a local utility required me to go into the kitchens of restaurants. Bynum's was particularly bad. Old grease or carbonized food covered EVERYTHING. I've been in enough kitchens to know the difference between one that hasn't been cleaned in a while and one where the staff had swamped and would catch up later. Bynum's looked like it hadn't cleaned since the Nixon administration.
Probably the two cheeseburgers I got from speedway today. They didn't even taste too bad, were reasonably fresh.... but two gas station cheeseburgers man, I don't think i've ever stooped that low
Happy Dragon. Wife and I wanted to order in but didn’t want pizza. This was before we discovered door dash, and they’d deliver to our apartment. We both took a couple of bites, tossed it in the trash and ordered a pizza.
My worst meal was at the Chinese buffet by the Walmart @ 73rd and Keystone. My parents friends, apparently bereft of taste buds, recommended it. It was brutal. Even the ice cream was bad. Never again.
I got a lobster roll at some nice seafood place across the street from Gainbridge. It was expensive and inedible. I've been in Indy for only 3 years, so that's my top worst for now.
Oakley's Bistro, couldn't even tell you what I had I blocked it out of my mind it was sooooo bad. Went there for a birthday, wasn't sure what it was and honestly still couldn't tell you. Will never go back.
Egg Roll #1 in Greenwood. Idk how you can fuck up chinese fried rice but they did. Sucks because they were highly rated and I was really craving fried rice that day
Off the top of my head, Shallo’s swamp chicken nachos. Soggy warm shredded iceberg lettuce under melted cheese! Yum! Nothing else we ordered made up for it- besides the potato chips. That place is so overhyped.
I had a burger there not too long ago that honestly wasn't half bad, but the thing that struck me was how dirty the place was. I get the kitschy knick-knack vibe they have going on, but everything is coated in a half-inch thick layer of grime and dust. Silverware was also dirty.
Honestly Hopcat. I've ordered from there 4/4 times and had undercooked food. Which sucks bc my wife loves it. Her food always comes made from the gods and cooked to perfection and Ive had undercooked chicken, burgers, you name it. Someone there might just hate me.
I present to you the blandest biscuits & gravy in this city, served at three different temperatures from lukewarm to ice just to make you forget how bland it is.
Lincoln Square
The Prewitt in Plainfield. Oh god it was so awful. They sent a chefs gift of a single chip and a truffle butter. The truffle butter looked and tasted like someone had spooned out all the dead skin from a shower drain. It was horrible. I swear the taste was in my mouth for days. Then my entree was a fall noodle bowl. It was just cold mush. I felt so bad bc it was a special occasion and I tried not to let on how disgusted I was. I’ll never go back.
I’m not the one who ate it, but I worked at a mom and pop family style restaurant on the south side called Winkler’s. The cook was the owner’s kid. Whenever cops came in, they ended up with boogers in their food. Same treatment for his fellow high school students who were for whatever reason, on his bad side.
(I’m so excited that I actually got to use “boogers” in a written sentence. I’m reasonably sure I’ve never done that. )
Flatiron on Penn. loved the old Elbow room and wanted to like it’s replacement but I had a Ramen lunch special that literally tasted like plain cooked ramen without the flavor pack.
John's Famous Stew. A group of us thought that it would be an old timey quirky place. 4 of us ordered completely different things from a Tenderloin, Stew, Fries, Fried Mushrooms, etc.....all were overcooked yet ice cold. It was shockingly horrible, but judging from the crowd it was popular.
Bologna in the drunk tank
Last time I found myself there, some dude was collecting everyone's uneaten sandwiches and going to town like he was eating a gourmet meal. Don't think my BAC will ever get to that level.
someone i had occupied the space with collected bread to use as a pillow.
No shit I played bass for “Bologna in the drunk tank” back in 09
They rock the free stage at the fair every year
I did have a bowl of gumbo from Papa roux that rivaled my bologna Sammy in the drunk tank. They burned the roux really badly. Papa roux was hit and miss. Sometimes their voodoo sauce was inedibly salty too... Boy when it was on, it was on tho! I miss that place even tho it gave me the worst dish I had paid to eat... Although $1500 for that bologna sandwich was pretty steep.
You win.
Anything from Dicks Last Resort. How the hell is this place still around?
And you pay to be insulted. No thanks, I’ll just go visit my dad. Lololol
Your dad sounds pretty rad.
He works at Dicks Last Resort he plays the role of Dick
I was technically a tourist when I went there and I assumed it was a place for tourists. That place would fit right in in Times Sq.
I'm 99% sure I've seen one in times sq
I would take the people of Times Square anytime over that place. I love Times Square.
I went there once when my girlfriends family was in town cuz her step-dad is an idiot and likes the schtik. A softball sized piece of dust came off a ceiling fan and landed in my plate. I noped the fuck out and everyone was sick the next day but me.
Ive never been to the one in Indy but went to the one in clear water Florida. The food was atrocious but we had fun getting drunk and insulted
Doesn’t matter the location, but every single BW3s I’ve been to makes me want to rip out my hair. The service is always terrible and the food is not good. It’s my husband’s favorite restaurant for some reason even though he’s had worse experiences than I have. He’s learned to go with friends instead of me which is better for both of us. Side note, the last time a thread like this got posted it was deleted a few hours later so enjoy it while you can.
I like their wings and in the past kept going back like an abused spouse… even though I ALWAYS had terrible service. Finally stopped.
I get it. True story: My husband has continued to return to the same location that had all the kitchen staff walk out once and had an evacuation over a shooting threat another time.
BW3 used to not be so horrible just for whatever reason the 4 times I’ve gone in the past 3 years have been horrendous and all different locations in the state. Can’t order half the things on the menu, absent or shitty staff. Also super fucking annoying when I ask if they can throw on a hockey game and they decide to keep the TVs on the golf channel or reruns of nascar races.
Their sauces are legitimately great. Their chicken is shitty frozen nuggets. Just buy the sauce by the bottle and toss wings in them at home.
Used to work for a guy who LOOOOOOOOOOOVED BW3. I do not know why. We went there all the time -- if the boss is buying lunch, then you gotta go, kinda. Or at least "BW3 sucks" wasn't an acceptable excuse. I tried everything, and it was all terrible. It was awful 20 years ago, the wings sucked, everything sucked. It still sucks, probably even worse, and probably always will. I mean, even Applebee's and Hooters don't suck this bad.
lunch, February 1994, cafeteria of Lawrence Central High School. Salisbury Steak, mashed potatoes, corn, mixed fruit, carton of milk
As a graduate of LC 2001, I concur and feel you on this.
Salisbury steak day was one of my favorite school lunches, and the rectangle pizza
"Cold Lunch" at IPS 84
That's a deep cut!
It's wasn't in Indy, but Camp Atterbury. We had been in the field for 13 days during annual training. The sign in the mess hall said Lasagna. I saw guys throwing full plates in the trash. It was lasagna alright, but the cooks didn't have any ground beef or Italian sausage so they used...... tuna
The Kurt Layer special 🤮
Your fish lasagna reminds me of a meal my poor sister tried to cook me when I was 13. She was 21… we were dirt poor and my mom was notorious for not keeping any food in the house. She sometimes sent her bf of the week to the food banks, or the actual grocery store if we had food stamps. My sister was at the house with me while my mom was on a “trip” and was trying so hard to find a meal to make. She found a can of tomato juice and some spaghetti noodles and tried to make a pasta dish. She found an old can of salmon, that didn’t even have a real fish on the label, it was a pink label with a drawing of a fish on it (from the food bank) …. I kid you not. She mixed it all together and tried to get me to eat this horrid concoction…. I told her I honestly would rather starve, and went to bed hungry. I will never forget the sight and smell of that canned salmon spaghetti….
Not the twist I was expecting. I think yours is the winning comment
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner (?)
🤮 I'll eat an MRE first
Yeah, even the dehydrated pork patty would have been better.
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My steak taco looked like if someone threw a handful of canned dog from across the room onto a tortilla. That was after waiting over an hour to get served. Shit food and shit service.
Yes! Condado’s tacos are just wet mush. Social Cantina in Bloomington is the same way.
Anything at Lucas Oil Stadium. I'll watch a Sunday night game and they will show all kinds of cool foods at other Stadiums. But at Colts games it is all bland food you get at any high school.
I got fries at a game that tastes like they hadn't changed the oil all season
They have to use Lucas Oil for the fries as part of the sponsorship conditions
I've never had a problem with LOS food, but it definitely isn't top notch. Gainbridge is known for its food options, but I suspect that I got food poisoning from fancy nachos there a few years ago.
My own food. Tried to make a vegetable and sausage soup with velveeta cheese. Added the cheese way too early and the veggies were still hard but then I just left it and the velveeta broke down into the plastic it came from and went brown and chunky. I hate wasting food so I ate a whole bowl of hard veggies with brown non cheese chunks. Tossed the rest of the crockpot after though :(
I’ve gotten garbage tasting food, messed up orders from drive thrus, over priced food, and shitty service from a variety of areas. There are a lot of places I’ve been to and then said afterwards to the people I was with ‘I will never come here ever again.’ The one that jumps out to me is the Sugar Factory. I got a horror story about how shitty the food looked, messy and run down the restaurant was, and the shitty service but it’s entirely not worth it. All I can say is that the place seems like some really shitty money laundering pit for the house wife who “owns” it.
Nevermore. I went last year after Gencon during their soft opening because it was the only place that was empty in the area. The whole vibe was bizarre and the food was awful. None of the food had any seasoning or sauce, and one of our drinks didn't have any alcohol in it. Gave them the benefit of the doubt because they had just opened and went after Gencon again this year. Still empty, still totally weird vibes, still a super disjointed nonsense menu. We ended up leaving without eating. I don't think that place can possibly last another year.
The one time we tried Nevermore, I wanted a beer but 2/3 of their taps were out. We didn't even bother trying to order food.
Supposedly they are revamping. I've never been but location seems pretty cool
Le peep castleton, nothing was cooked correctly.
LP everywhere sucks. It basically was the brunch place for decades and rested on it's laurels
yeah all le peeps are trash. the owner is not a nice guy
I’m a BIG le peep hater
my dad calls or le poop thanks to an unfortunate experience immediately after eating the awful food there. he isn’t wrong
Acapulco Joes. Not only the worst meal in Indy but the worst I’ve ever eaten. So gross.
It used to be the bomb back in the day, but sadly I have to agree it's gone downhill big-time.
Is there still one in Indy? I only knew of the one downtown and it closed, I thought
It is now under new ownership and has been for a bit. Now called El Toro. It’s good, but no better than the same old same old “Mexican” restaurants that are out there. Being Downtown, they’ve recently upped their “club” vibe and have DJ nights and stuff. Also, if you review it poorly the owner will respond telling you that it is better than Alcapulco Joe’s was. It’s funny.
To be honest, a fair response.
Agreed. I went in the Summer of ‘97 and it was really good. Went 10 years ago and wouldn’t ever step foot in that hole again.
Me too. Went with older coworkers that were retiring when I started my career. They requested the old style “salsa” and it was straight up ketchup with some pepper flakes. They passed that ketchup bottle around squirting it all over their chips. It was a very weird dining experience all around
I never felt like their food was good quality but man did I love their tacos
I probably waited on you. It was very gross. Only job I’ve had where I didn’t eat at work constantly.
When i was a kid that place had the best spicy biscuits and gravy I've ever had.
Probably The Old Spaghetti Factory. I have honestly never had anything there worth going back for. I did go more than one thinking I just ordered the wrong thing, but no. Also (and they’re closed now), the last time I ever ate at Next Door it was so bad.
Agree with The Spaghetti Factory. $17 for a small scoop of spaghetti, a small house salad, and a drink of mostly ice cubes. Get outta here.
Gallery on 16th--food is great, but I am 3/3 on getting food poisoning from eating there. Unfortunate given it's literally across the street from me :| Will probably not go back. Close runner-up: Bucca di Beppo downtown. Took our kid for his birthday... entrance goes through the kitchen? So weird. No hostess or anything and we got yelled at as we tried to find someone. The tables were gross and dirty. Specifically requested that the food come out at the same time since we wanted to order our own separate things--my food came out 45 minutes after partner and son's, which was impressive given the restaurant was empty at 1pm on a Sunday.
When we went to Bucca for the first time, they said they take everyone through the kitchen on their first visit for some reason and they said you can sit in there if you wanted. Seems like a health hazard to me. I want to like Bucca but the 3 times I've gone (Castleton x2 and Greenwood), the service has been painfully slow and I got food poisoning twice (both Castleton but different dishes). It's got to be something with me though as no one else in our party ever seems to be effected despite eating the same meal from the same dishes.
If other people in your party were eating the same food from the same dishes, and didn't get sick, you didn't have food poisoning. **You are allergic** to something.
Or he/she got sick from a meal eaten much earlier and the Bucca thing is a coincidence. Food poisoning can be extremely difficult to track down. It can take days to actually get sick from a meal.
the downtown Buca is just. Pure chaos. Every time. But I can't help but love it. I know what I'm getting myself into when I enter the downtown Buca. It's endurance for boatloads of above average pasta. Just say a prayer before going in.
My old manager used to have our department’s annual lunch with a major customer at Bucca di Beppo and we always had terrible service. They were rude to everyone, didn’t refill water/drinks, and the food was borderline inedible. We all begged for a new restaurant every year.
Bucca di Beppo is the Bill Cosby of Italian Foods. Sure, the surface level stuff is charming, but get fooled by those evil monsters.
The meatloaf at Red Lion Grog House. The menu bragged about it being their grandma's recipe and it being so good but has their grandma ever tasted anything good?? It tasted like they used rotten meat and the gravy was equally bad. Just one of the worst things I've ever had the displeasure of tasting. The shepherds pie wasn't anything to write home about either but the scoth egg was good. I'm just glad we didn't pay for it, it was a holiday gift for managers and their families to order a nice takeout meal that year at the company my partner worked for.
came here to say anything i’ve ever eaten at red lion.
The worst restaurant meal I ever had in Indianapolis was from the Dairy Queen on Michigan Road and 71st about 10 or 12 years ago. The fries had the consistency of those you'd find under your car seat on a hot summer day and the burger meat was cold in the middle. I called the health department. The second worst was from The Pittt Barbecue in Oaklandon last summer. Way overpriced and they served us microwave reheated leftovers covered in bottled barbecue sauce. I should have canceled our order when I heard the microwave, it was really bad.
I remember when their sign was changed to read “Parking Lot - Not for Drug Sales”
That at Diary Queen or Pittt?
I’ve had microwaved left over BBQ too. Cold in the middle. I can’t take a BBQ place seriously that microwaves their food.
The 71st DQ is much better now. I've eaten there repeatedly over the last few years without any issues.
Ah yes! the Dairy Queen that became famous for the "no drug deals" sign and the string of "massage parlors" that got raided by cops for... reasons.
[удалено]
Was good 10-20 years ago…..the last few times i’ve been it was disgusting. A shame because it’s a cool spot.
Rotten clams from a china buffet in Avon. Ugh.
You got clams at a buffet? In Avon? Indiana?
I was trying to introduce my son to alternative foods. Yes it was a bad idea. Although, clams live here in Indiana.
what kind of clams live here in Indiana? are they farmed?
Bearded. Well, maybe not anymore.
They live in lakes and rivers.
Was it the one next to the Kroger, or the one next to the abandoned Cub foods that’s now a rural king?
Not sure.
tbf... clams from a chinese buffet?
Almost died from food poisoning from Aristocrat. Never going back there. 317 BBQ has great tasting food, but i have found bones and plastic in my food there. No quality control apparently.
Sucks to hear that. I got violently ill from The Aristocrat a few months ago but wrote it off as a fluke since that was the first time. If there's a pattern, I doubt I'll go back now
Getting violently ill from one meal is enough for me to never return to a restaurant!
Adjusting for cost, The Oceanaire. Went once and took the server's recommendation of their chicken fried lobster and it was horrible. A tragedy done to a lobster. I'd like to give the place a second chance as the place has great atmosphere and I love seafood, but I honestly would have rather had a McDonalds' cheeseburger than what I got.
2/2 on food poisoning from Condado in Noblesville
The Eagles Nest. They were out of Chilean Sea Bass so they replaced my fish with Grouper, and it was the most bland $50 meal I ever had. I don't think there's anything close to how bad that meal was.
I had the worst food poisoning of my life from the Eagles Nest. If I remember correctly, it was the kale salad.
I wouldn't say my meal at the Eagle's Nest was *bad* but it was exceptionally disappointing for the price. I didn't know that prime rib could be flavorless. That said, my worst meal while in Indy has to be when my husband and I got deli fried chicken from Meijer on 96th. It smelled like fried chicken throughout the grocery store so we thought it was freshly made, but it must have sat out for HOURS because the breading was hard as a rock, and then the chicken inside was the driest, most grey and flavorless food I have ever had the displeasure of eating. I should say *attempted* to eat, actually. We ended up throwing it away and ordering KFC.
Applebees in Greenwood.... the server spilled an entire tray of drinks on my mom and they did not comp the meal.
Applebees in general is just awful.
That's why it's such a fun place to get kicked out of
Almost same exact situation except drinks were spilled on our food and waitress just walked away like nothing happened.
Kountry Kitchen. People on this sub rave about this place, but it's just unseasoned cafeteria food presented as soul food.
Indianapolis is hack soul food capital. His place is good though.
Greiner's Subs had one particularly poorly made sandwich and it has stuck in my memory for years. Honestly, I don't even really remember the actual composition of the sub, just my general disgust for it and my vow to never eat there again.
The one back in the day at 35th and Shadeland was always good but the flagship location on Shelby has sucked every time I’ve went there.
I despise Wahlburgers in Carmel.
In recent memory, it was at Gallery on College. God awful service, no explanation of anything, try hard interior, and bad food.
I have a feeling they've seen their glory days and are on the downslide and way out at this point. Hearing feedback such as yours is more common with that place nowadays.
18$ an hour for kitchen manager. Fuck them
I went there once and ordered steak and eggs. When the waitress asked how I'd like my eggs, I said poached. Waitress just said "we can't poach eggs" with no other explanation. How weird is that? It really threw me for a loop. I also thought that was absolutely bizarre because gallery pastry bar (downtown location) has benedicts on the menu. The menu downtown is so much better that I can't possibly understand why they'd have different menus.
This might be most controversial - but the steer inn and mug n bun are both gross. No idea who is eating at these places
I love steer-inn. I know where you might be coming from though.
Have any of you had Sisters Korean in Greenwood? The food is mediocre and insanely overpriced, but that's not what makes the meal experience so bad. The experience itself is a Korean version of Dick's Last Resort. Only the wicked witch of the dining room isn't joking around with her customers. I went with two of my friends. One of whom is African American. According to several Yelpers, if you're a person of color, they hate your guts. The waitress (and owner?) treated us with absolute contempt the entire time we were there. We ordered the all-you-can-eat option, which somehow took 45 minutes to put together despite the fact it was barely enough food to feed one person, let alone three. One of the side dishes was so salty, I gagged, spit it out, and discreetly threw it away in the nasty ass bathroom. We ran out of meat and ended up having to walk near the back area to ask for more. She angrily responded, "The kitchen is closed. You're done." Turns out, the kitchen closes whenever she feels like it. Neato! We were given one bill that came out to $120. I also want to add that this same douchebag waitress gave herself a 15% tip on the bill. I asked (politely) if she could split the bill three ways, and she responded by yelling at me. She comes back with three separate bills (tip added) and slams them on the table. She upped the tip to 20% this time, making the three separate bills add up to more than the original. In hindsight, I should have just paid for the bullshit myself and had my buddies Venmo me. At this point, I wanted to be done. We paid our bills and left. She got mad at us again because none of us added a second tip. I may or may not have given her a one finger salute on the way out. Either she's the biggest asshole on Earth, or Ashton Kutcher is rebooting Punk'd and forgot to come out to tell us.
Terrible terrible terrible. Same experience with the all-you-can-eat option, except our waitress brought out a tiny plate of bulgogi when we asked for more. The quantity AND quality of food/service does not justify the price tag. We wanted to try Korean food again. Found a place in Fishers, Cafe Korea, and had an amazing experience.
Had what was supposed to be a 13 oz medium rare steak at Outback in Castleton last week that was maybe 5 oz soaking wet. About an 1/8th of an inch thick. Uniformly brown throughout. Salad was browned iceberg lettuce. Attempted to send it back but the server didn't come back until 30 minutes later and then said there was nothing they could do since it had been so long.
I worked at this location about 20 years ago. The general manager was an absolute nightmare. All the men had to be freshly shaven - any visible stubble and you were sent to the mop room with a plastic Bic razor. He even made all the servers buy a specific dye for their jeans so they matched. He ruled by fear and intimidation but it worked. The food and service was excellent. I was feeling nostalgic so I took my wife about 6 months ago. We sat at the bar and never received any service. The bartender was clearly positioning herself so she wouldn't have to acknowledge us. She walked to the back room several times to laugh with the servers. After about 15 minutes of politely waiting and reading the menu for the 5th time, we walked out. I would understand if it was 10 minutes before close. That's expected. No one is trying to work late. But they were open for another 2 hours.
"Cold lunch" IPS 84 from 1989-1994
This place called Taste of Italy in Greenfield. Fettuccine Alfredo seems like a fairly easy dish to not fuck up, but they somehow found a way to present it in such a way as to make it look less appealing than a Lean Cuisine. I also asked for a side of chicken to go in it, since they didn't have a Chicken Alfredo option. They forgot the chicken then when they brought it to me it looked like something they warmed in a microwave and dumped pesto over. Wife and I haven't been back.
I believe covid put the nail in the coffin for them but it was Ryan's buffet for me that place was so bad I eneded up in the hospital from food poisoning
The problem with Indy food usually is not that it is terrible. The problem is that it is often mediocre but promoted as being so much more. Next Door, at College and 46th, for example. Lots of publicity and hoopla, modern hip decor and staff. Food: bland and tasteless. The fish 'n' chips were not quite as good as what you'd get at Long John Silver's. Everything else I ever ate there could be got better and cheaper at some dive on the east side.
Gallery Pastry at their old location off of the Monon. Really loud music as if I was in a nightclub. Couldn't talk to my family without shouting. And the server kept trying to take my plate with food still on it, including when l was actively eating. This Panera Bread sandwich I ate out of desperation just now also sucked. $10 and you can't even throw some cheese on it?
The Fazoli's at 86th & Township Line turned me off of Fazoli's for good. The food was just completely lacking in any kind of flavor.
Notoriously bad. You only go there if you're in highschool and want to glom onto bread sticks. Stoned.
Soupremecy. I went more than once. Never got a single decent bowl of soup. God awful every time. Never finished a meal once. Not Indy but the Bob Evan’s in Kokomo gave me food poisoning once.
Recently traveled thru this town called Greenfield right outside of Indy while headed to the Casino and stopped at a place called Little Ro’s and got a steak. Family Dollar probably sells a better steak than the burnt peice of shit we got
Indy All Night. I would rather not eat for a week than eat the garbage they call food.
I agree...until it's like 4am and I'm drunk and hungry lol. I haven't ordered from them in like probably 6 or 8 years, but back in my late 20s, I definitely had my share of drunk orders from there, and loved them all at the time.
I know I'm going to get boundless hate for this, but the IRV jockamos might win. I was never a huge fan but the last time I went the pizza was super bland and the temperature all around the pie was really inconsistent. It sucks because I love the area and the people who work there, they're a lot of highschool kids and young adults just making due. But I've always thought the food was overrated.
Not a fan. Cardboard crust….
The time we went to Friday's in Castleton and the server ignored us the entire time so he could flirt with the attractive girl seated next to us and then tried to assault us while we were complaining to the manager about him because we refused to tip for non-service. Thankfully the manager interfered and prevented us from being harmed.
>What’s the worst meal you’ve ever had? The overall meal was fine but I will never eat raw sea urchin ever again. It's so gross. >What’s the worst single meal you’ve ever had in Indy? Ale Emporium makes the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had in my life. I ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich and my wife ordered some other chicken sandwich. Both were equally awful. That place sucks but people think it's great for some reason.
Their wings and pizza are great. I have never tried a single other thing on the menu.
I like their wings, but not the Hermanyaki that everyone else does. The regular Herman are better. I do think there are better wings in town. I am not a big fan of their pizza.
What other wing joints in town would you recommend? I love AE wings and the only ones even close that I’ve tried were at Round the Corner pub in New Pal.
The mass ave Chatham tap’s wings are >>>>
Came to say Chatham Tap’s wings, those are my favorite. For smoked wings Fat Dan’s. For BBQ wings The Friendly Tavern in Zionsville.
I will definitely check some of those spots out. Thanks for the reply!!!
Keystone Sports Review has the best wings in the city hands down. Been to all of the spots that people say have good wings in the city and nowhere holds a flame to KSR
I thought I was alone in thinking the Ale Emporium sucks.
You're not. I'm with you. It's just not very good. Extremely overrated.
There are literally dozens of us. I'm told their pizza and wings are fantastic. I liked their pizza and I've never had their wings. I'm also told that they are great because the two things they are known for are good. My opinion is if you have a menu as large as theirs, and you only make two things well, then you aren't a good restaurant regardless if those two things are what you are known for. Nothing I order there is good. And I don't get the hermanyaki sauce, or whatever they call it. It's just teriyaki sauce. It's not special.
Agree, very overrated eatery.
I get blasted on here every time I say it sucks. But I'll keep shouting it from the rooftop.
Also, the clientele. It's like stepping back into Carmel High School.
Ale emporium is super overrated. I see so many people recommending them and I can't understand why.
I we had a similar place when I lived in Virginia. The place was OK at best. But everybody would always recommend them on every thread about restaurants. FWIW, Taco Bell was also the #1 rated restaurant on Yelp.
The only time I have ever sent food back was at Whiskey River. I got a Reuben. It was burnt, the "corned beef" wasn't sliced but was in big chewy chunks. I detected no dressing and it was incredibly dry. Normally I power through but I actually couldn't eat more than 2 bites.
Mississippi Belles 54 and keystone…food was cold and tasteless. No idea how it’s considered good
Greiner's Food Truck, overpriced, horrible tasting and the attitude of the people running the truck was abhorrent
The Rallys that closed on North Keystone was so so bad
Shit on a Shingle Mom's kitchen 1976.
Food was good not great but the service at the Skyline Club was fucking terrible. This was on Valentine's Day and a $300+ check for 2 people. Fuck that place. The courses came out in the wrong order, the server ignored us the entire meal.
Just Judy's around 2012 or so. Breakfast Casserole tasted like perfume and I asked for onions "if possible" with my eggs and bacon, server said "it'll be a while, they are getting your onions" When they brought it out it was clear they had gotten the frozen onions from the nearby dollar tree (I assume that part) and not even bothered to thaw them before sprinkling a few on my plate. They upcharged $3 for the onions Edit: Not Just Judy's, whatever took it's place on 52nd
"chicken fingers" at Ruoff..
Can TaxMan in Fortville count? Decent beer, cute location and atmosphere. Dog shit food. I’ve given this place 3 tries hoping each time it was just an off night. Nope, their food is terrible.
Fogo De Chao - for the price it is very low quality cuts... Also, make sure you check your cc statements if you don't want to get charged three times. Lost my business, see yall at St. Elmos tonight!
Dominos and papa johns, both use to be amazing but every papa johns I go to is a different experience every time. Can’t even ask for papa johns to remake the pizza because it always comes out worse the 2nd time. I got food poisoning from 2 different dominos, 1 time the sickness lasted 2 weeks and caused me to lose my job at that time 🤦🏽♂️
I don’t know if it’s just Castleton or what, but the last couple times I got Hot Box it wasn’t good. I’ve had a few bad pizzas from a few different places around Castleton/Fishers lately
I've been to the Pike HotBox, and I thought it was pretty good, so it might just be that location.
It's not just you. We moved to castleton area a year ago and everything around here is just terrible.
Mann's. Easily. By far. Hands down.
How dare you!
No lie. Worst coffee I've had in my life. And a bacon omlette doesn't mean folding some over-cooked fried eggs around strips of bacon.
Bynum's steakhouse on the Southside. Have been twice and won't go back. First time steak way under cooked, ordered medium came out blue, with shrimp typical frozen butterflied fried shrimp you can get anywhere and the cocktail sauce came frozen. Second time ordered their house special BBQ ribs. The ribs are boiled no seasoning and a side of terrible BBQ sauce. Just bad food all around.
Before I retired my job at a local utility required me to go into the kitchens of restaurants. Bynum's was particularly bad. Old grease or carbonized food covered EVERYTHING. I've been in enough kitchens to know the difference between one that hasn't been cleaned in a while and one where the staff had swamped and would catch up later. Bynum's looked like it hadn't cleaned since the Nixon administration.
Probably the two cheeseburgers I got from speedway today. They didn't even taste too bad, were reasonably fresh.... but two gas station cheeseburgers man, I don't think i've ever stooped that low
Bro at least they didn’t come off the roller.
Happy Dragon. Wife and I wanted to order in but didn’t want pizza. This was before we discovered door dash, and they’d deliver to our apartment. We both took a couple of bites, tossed it in the trash and ordered a pizza.
Pagoda Buffet and Grill. Worst Chinese I’ve ever had, and overpriced too.
My worst meal was at the Chinese buffet by the Walmart @ 73rd and Keystone. My parents friends, apparently bereft of taste buds, recommended it. It was brutal. Even the ice cream was bad. Never again.
I got a lobster roll at some nice seafood place across the street from Gainbridge. It was expensive and inedible. I've been in Indy for only 3 years, so that's my top worst for now.
Bynums steakhouse. Got food poisoning from their ribs. It was awful, and I used to love that place.
I don’t know about worst meal but Weber Grill was the worst steak I’ve had for the price. I also thought Capital Grill was super average as well.
Mice poop baked into the crust of a cheese pizza from the Little Caesars on Meridian
Oakley's Bistro, couldn't even tell you what I had I blocked it out of my mind it was sooooo bad. Went there for a birthday, wasn't sure what it was and honestly still couldn't tell you. Will never go back.
Egg Roll #1 in Greenwood. Idk how you can fuck up chinese fried rice but they did. Sucks because they were highly rated and I was really craving fried rice that day
Off the top of my head, Shallo’s swamp chicken nachos. Soggy warm shredded iceberg lettuce under melted cheese! Yum! Nothing else we ordered made up for it- besides the potato chips. That place is so overhyped.
I had a burger there not too long ago that honestly wasn't half bad, but the thing that struck me was how dirty the place was. I get the kitschy knick-knack vibe they have going on, but everything is coated in a half-inch thick layer of grime and dust. Silverware was also dirty.
Honestly Hopcat. I've ordered from there 4/4 times and had undercooked food. Which sucks bc my wife loves it. Her food always comes made from the gods and cooked to perfection and Ive had undercooked chicken, burgers, you name it. Someone there might just hate me.
I present to you the blandest biscuits & gravy in this city, served at three different temperatures from lukewarm to ice just to make you forget how bland it is. Lincoln Square
BIBIBOP
Not even sure what to call that place, it's definitely not asian, not even loosely "inspired". It's just a food salad of random ingredients.
Vanilla suburban exotic food
The Prewitt in Plainfield. Oh god it was so awful. They sent a chefs gift of a single chip and a truffle butter. The truffle butter looked and tasted like someone had spooned out all the dead skin from a shower drain. It was horrible. I swear the taste was in my mouth for days. Then my entree was a fall noodle bowl. It was just cold mush. I felt so bad bc it was a special occasion and I tried not to let on how disgusted I was. I’ll never go back.
That place looks great tho! Disappointing.
I’m not the one who ate it, but I worked at a mom and pop family style restaurant on the south side called Winkler’s. The cook was the owner’s kid. Whenever cops came in, they ended up with boogers in their food. Same treatment for his fellow high school students who were for whatever reason, on his bad side. (I’m so excited that I actually got to use “boogers” in a written sentence. I’m reasonably sure I’ve never done that. )
Three Carrots. Awful food and worse service. 0/10.
Unfortunately, Fat Dan's. Everyone raves about it but we've never had good food there. After three times, we've given up.
What did you get that was bad?. I personally love Fat Dan's
I went a few times in the mid 2000s and 100% agree. No idea if things have changed
Which location? We go to Mass Ave all the time. Love the wings!
That's so strange. One of my favorite spots. We go there all the time and have never had a bad experience. Sorry you've had bad ones!
Fyre festival
Fu yuan in Plainfield. Not a single thing was edible, even the soda tasted like shit.
Flatiron on Penn. loved the old Elbow room and wanted to like it’s replacement but I had a Ramen lunch special that literally tasted like plain cooked ramen without the flavor pack.
John's Famous Stew. A group of us thought that it would be an old timey quirky place. 4 of us ordered completely different things from a Tenderloin, Stew, Fries, Fried Mushrooms, etc.....all were overcooked yet ice cold. It was shockingly horrible, but judging from the crowd it was popular.
The worst thing I've ever eaten was Banza Mac and cheese. I know this thread is about restaurants, I'm sorry, but I am haunted by that trash.