Originally Posted by
Aventine
It was supposed to be fish but had I been told it was trout then I wouldn't have ordered it in the beginning. I know assumptions make me an *ss but the chef wasn't very tactful for a 5-star hotel staff member. There's better ways than coming out and confronting a valued guest of the hotel. I don't see a problem with asking for something I didn't like to be changed.
Trout
is fish. It cost money to buy, and money to prepare, and then had to be thrown in the trash. That came out of the chef's budget.
Unless the trout was unwholesome or burnt or otherwise ruined in the cooking process, you should have paid for it, as well as anything else you ordered.
This doesn't fit with the OP's complaint about waitstaff being overbearing.
Cheers,
Doc