The poopdeck resturant in Brixham, England, must be the worst Seafood restaurant in the World.
The Owner come Chef is rude and arrogant.
Cannot take any complaints about his food, the meal was supposed to be fresh caught local fish, do not beleive it.
It was old, overcooked too much salt etc. and cost approx. $40.00 a head.

Do not go there.

Scott

I had a bad experience at Legal Seafood in DC two months ago. The seafood was fine but the service was just atrocious.

The service was so bad, it should have been, well, ilLEGAL.

Joe's Crab Shack unless you like deep-fried-everything. I rather go to a Red Lobster

Go to a restaurant that isn't a chain and you likely won't have these experiences.

You can have a bad meal anywhere, at any time, in any restaurant in the world.

If anything, you're like to have the same, predictable meal at a chain location(good or bad) because their training, materials, recipes and rules are (or should I perhaps say, should) be the same everywhere.

Just because Mom 'n' Pop run a restaurant out in the sticks doesn't mean they know anything about food or service. And just because you go to a Weber Grill in Chicago doesn't automatically mean the food won't be OK. Every time you walk into a restaurant, you're rolling the dice.

Absolutely not true.

Fish and Chip place in Fiji , local place on the main street ,
couple of bites and we got up and left,

went across the street bought some cookies and cokes for lunch

Sure was glad we were staying in a resort and could go back and get decent food

Rally

PS,,,,,,,,half the time I make my own lunch from the supermarket,
I am not a real "try anything" eater

Worst experiences are with "Sushi" at some hotel buffets and in pre-packaged lunch boxes. Also, a bad chippie can be...bad, equally so to some German versions of "panierte Forelle" etc. If fish has to be battered, better pay attention on how you do it and change the oil once in a while, please.

I like the restaurants of the Chicago chain Lettuce Entertain You. I really like Wildfire. Petterino's on Randolph is great. Vong's Thai Kitchen rocks!

I'm going to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia next week and I love hotel buffets. Do you have some recommendations?

I thought the dinner buffet at the Conrad Hong Kong was very good. There was all you can eat lobster tails.

I hope you don't want recs for bad Sushi? Stick to those delicious crabs and lobsters, I would say.

That'll be 'Spices ' - a supposedly upmarket 'Indian' restaurant in Emerson Park, Essex, England.

I asked for fish cooked in paper with lemon grass and ginger. I got a parcel of fish smeared in a coriander/cilantro pesto, there was not even a hint of a lemon grass or ginger aroma. I loathe cilantro. Called the waiter and explained my aversion to coriander and that I wouldn't have ordered it if it had been mentioned in the menu, and the guy then explained that they'd run out of lemon grass and had made the substitute. Obviously, they didn't think it worthwhile to consult me.

Then came the revenge:

I ordered instead a Bengali fish curry. It came in a red sauce with rubbery yellow nodules which seemed to have congealed and curdled - it continued to seperate so that the red and yellow floated to the top and a clear liquid was left on the bottom. Even my Japanese husband, who has gone through the British boarding school system and can now cope with, and enjoy, almost any food on the planet thought it one of the most disgusting things he'd ever tasted.

Sure enough, I complained, and the Manager came along and said that is how it was supposed to be. As I've eaten plenty of Bengali curries in Brick Lane I insisted it couldn't be. Manager was rude and took my comments entirely personally - like I'd affronted his mother (perhaps she was cooking!) and although I think I managed to avoid paying for the dish, I still had to pay for everything else. The whole thing turned quite nasty though, we were practically sneered at as we settled the bill.

I have had plenty of bad meals in the UK (and in Spain, it can be just as bad in Europe) but this really did stand above everything as the worst meal ever... and I include airline meals! It's unbelievable that the Manager thought it was acceptable and defensible.

I did ask the Manager if anybody EVER made a repeat order of this dish... hopefully that comment at least would have sunk in and he might notice. But I doubt it. The stubborn fool!

P.S. This place is not part of a chain!

And I've just seen on the website that Machler Jhol (the Bengali fish curry) is featured as one of the Chef's recomendations
(They've given up on any other fish dishes and are sticking to prawns now)

I had an absolutely vile tortilla de camarones at a beachside shack in C�diz, not sure if this qualifies as a restaurant but truly one of the few meals I have ever ordered which was truly inedible.

Years ago, Mrs. Cyberdad and had to wait over two hours for an incredibly bad lobster dinner at Legal's in Boston. We were told the wait would be an hour and fifteen minutes. For what???? Then they made us pay when we ordered. Hers wound up making her sick!

Ate at some chain restaurant (Texas steakhouse type place) in Wheeling,WV. Had some shrimp with my steak. Got food poisoning. A 4 hour flight home in first was wasted with me doubled over in abdominal pain.