I can recall many bad seafood restaurants, from a Raleigh, NC Red Lobster where we had to wait 30 minutes for the water to be brought to the table, a New Jersey place with funny-looking and funny-tasting longneck clams, but they had a $4.95 lobster special (catch was this had to be eaten while standing at the bar), and in Bodega Bay in California, a golf course restaurant served me up a crab that poisoned me so badly that I spent three days in a jail cell spouting at both ends. I also felt badly when a bowl of thick soup with pink pieces of fish was put in front of me in Sendai, Japan. My host ordered it and found out later it was Shark Fin Soup. Mrs. outoftown and I have this thing about killing sharks for their fins, so to us, it was like Muslims being fed pork. Not a bad restaurant, just a bad seafood experience, like when my rental car got busted into during lunch at Fisherman's Wharf. Most of my other bad seafood experiences were masked by generous amounts of wasabi and/or beer.

-outoftown