What is the Worst Meal You Ever Ate?

Posted on April 15th, 2008 9:57am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Dining

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23 comments

  1. Worst meal or worst dining experience?

    @ 10:02 am on April 15, 2008

  2. meal. food. professionally prepared.

    @ 10:18 am on April 15, 2008

  3. As a rule of thumb, I don’t eat anywhere with “golden” in the title.

    @ 10:26 am on April 15, 2008

  4. James, I believe that’s technically considered “drinking”…

    @ 10:37 am on April 15, 2008

  5. WHATEVER, dude. I see the dots going out, you see them going in. Use your imagination. Just answer the question.

    @ 10:41 am on April 15, 2008

  6. The worst meal ’special’ I ever got at a respected restaurant (not cheap and since closed) in the Oak Lawn area was hand delivered to our table by the gracious chef of renown. It was a fish special. The fish filets were ‘fishy’ smelly and undercooked to boot, served over a bed of tastelessly beyond-bland potato something that was spilling from a prefab ‘cone’ of whole grain something like an anti-Christ horn of plenty. Both the restaurateur and the chef beamed as I tasted their offering. I literally had to excuse myself, gagged in the restroom, and folded the ’special’ into a pilfered cloth dinner napkin which I rolled up and placed into my trench coat pocket and served to my neighbor’s dog that barked all night as a ‘I hate you’ piece offering. PS: The runner up worst meal was ironically also fish, a decade ago at Stephen Pyle’s brief fling-that-flung Knox Street nighttime $$$depository ‘Aquaknox’.

    @ 10:44 am on April 15, 2008

  7. Rawlins, spill the beans on the place.

    @ 10:54 am on April 15, 2008

  8. dinner on China Air … but i only drank the beer.

    @ 10:54 am on April 15, 2008

  9. @Nancy – I was referring to James and his avoidance of Golden things – as in showers. Too juvenile? Sorry. :(

    @ 10:57 am on April 15, 2008

  10. Right over what is left of my head. Ha!

    @ 11:04 am on April 15, 2008

  11. Nancy, I can’t ’spill the beans’ because to vomit and tell is never gentlemanly.

    @ 11:26 am on April 15, 2008

  12. This pains me to admit this — but the worst meal I’ve eaten recently came from Snuffers. What happened to their cheese fries? Ten years ago they were crispy with plenty of cheese. Now, they are greasy, soggy and covered slightly with cheese.

    @ 11:44 am on April 15, 2008

  13. where it is now.
    Herrera’s.
    used to be great but has gone down hill
    with menu and POOR service, etc and the pricing
    is UP.
    oh well, there is still other TexMex.

    @ 11:58 am on April 15, 2008

  14. Allow me to clarify with these examples-

    Golden Egg roll
    Golden Corral
    Goldie’s
    Golden Empress
    “Golden Arches” -Ok that one is a stretch.

    @ 1:07 pm on April 15, 2008

  15. Uncle Julios in N. Dallas the tortilla soup is disgusting.

    @ 1:22 pm on April 15, 2008

  16. Mine is …

    Baylor University,
    Penland Hall Cafe,
    chicken-fried-chicken, peas and mashed potatoes.

    Eight hours later, I thought I’d never eat food again… ever, ever.

    @ 1:23 pm on April 15, 2008

  17. Agree with Uncle Julios…Bloody fajitas! Nasty! I don’t understand the draw to that place.

    @ 1:30 pm on April 15, 2008

  18. Crab and Sushi Smorgasbord at May’s Spa on Stemmons.

    @ 1:33 pm on April 15, 2008

  19. i had the rod dreher tacos at luckys. made my heart black.

    @ 2:18 pm on April 15, 2008

  20. Funny thing happened to me. I ate lunch at Maggianos NP. Now I’m in the bathroom being visceraly purged of the nasty lasagna I didn’t even finish.

    I’m tapping this on my iPhone. I’ve had too Manu close calls to risk being anywhere but on the john.

    @ 3:09 pm on April 15, 2008

  21. Easy. When I flew Lufthansa from New Delhi to Dallas via Frankfurt, I made the mistake of eating the business class meal of veal terrine with fresh goat cheese, celery, carrots, and arugula oil. For the thirteen hours I was over the Atlantic, I was filling up every available barf bag. I lost five pounds as a result of that meal.

    @ 3:38 pm on April 15, 2008

  22. Worst meal ever: Olive Garden. Why do the aging family members insist on going there?
    Uncle Julio’s is awful, too.
    There’s so much good food in Texas. I just don’t understand how these places survive.

    @ 4:17 pm on April 15, 2008

  23. Uncle Julio’s is Mexican food that’s truly worthy of Cleveland. It even has the caricature Mexican as its mascot. I suspect the phrase Food Fun n Friends appears somewhere on their menu, but I don’t intend to find out for sure.

    Also miserable: Good Eats. And god help the Dixie House Lakewood — I want me to want it, I need me to need it, but I’m begging them to pull their shingle down.

    @ 10:16 am on April 16, 2008