Restaurants should be CHEF trained before opening

I took the wife out tonight to Carlton and was disgusted at the meals we were served. The pizza dough was flavourless and hard, the sauce was out of a can and the cannelloni microwaved semi-cold. Again no flavour. The biggest rubbish we've ever had. We had a few mouthfuls but yuck... We paid and left. I told the waitress she should eat the rest!

 

On the way home we went to McDonalds drive-thru and got 2 fillet-o-fish meals which was at least 200% better than the pizza restaurant.

 

I can't believe people are opening up restaurants and serving microwaved rubbish to customers they should be ashamed of themselves. How hard is it to make some pizza and pasta the proper old fashioned way?  We will not be fooled again.

 

There should be a hall of shame for what happened tonight.

 

Very disappointing! Has this happened to you?

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@imastawka wrote:

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

La Pizza Hut ?

 

 

 La - join the dots

 

 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porchetta

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


🙂 LOL

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Ewww, UFO I've just read back. You went to La Porcetta (sp)?

 

Well what do you expect? The last time I had a pizza there was 15 years ago, and it was as you describe.

 

With all the fine restaurants in Melbourne, you chose to take your wife there? If price is the issue (and it must be); with all the fine take away places in Melbourne who fed your wife there?

 

And lets face it, La Porcetta is no more than a bad takeaway joint - or an ethnic Sizzlers.

 

Try a pizza shop run by Greeks - they also make the best fish and chips 🙂

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Two Beans menu has my mouth watering.

 

Bit of a drive, but I will keep it in mind

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@miltofran wrote:

UFO, I think your experience has more to do with Carlton and Italian food, than anything else. I have never ever had a good Italian meal, although I must admit I don't like that country's food to start with (too greasy, too saucy, too *blerk*)

 

As for other restaurants, they have gone downhill in the last twenty years. In the 80's going out to a restaurant or even a cafe was a treat - you expected good service and got it - and the food was delicious - much nicer than you could make at home.

 

Today, the food is bland, particularly in cafes; it makes sense considering people who prepare meals today have no experience in food preparation nor skills. In the "old" days - chefs with a degree would be preparing your sandwiches. Today, it's uni students who don't give a **bleep**.

 

But what scares me off restaurants most, is what waiters and chefs do to your food if they don't like you. I won't disgust you with the gory details - but whatever you do NEVER send your food back, asking for changes. I know people in the restaurant industry: whatever you do NEVER send your food back.

 

I would have done what you did UFO, only I wouldn't have paid. This has happened to me five times, and although the owners aren't pleased, what can they do? I have to say though, the fillet-o-fish at Macdonalds is *blerk* as well - but anything is better than Italian 🙂

 

 


If we don't like the food we don't ask them to do it again I wouldn't trust what would happen to it. Maybe we should not have paid and argued about it I'm not sure. I didn't want to make a scene but we wont ever go back again thats for sure.

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

@imastawka wrote:

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

La Pizza Hut ?

 

 

 La - join the dots

 

 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porchetta

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


🙂 LOL


Smiley Very Happy   Glad you got the joke UFO

 

 

there are Thumbs Up Thumbs Down pages on facebook where you can leave feedback on services etc.

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UFO, I'm also curious why you would take your wife out tonight - probably one of the most miserable Melbourne weather conditions we've had this year.

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We have a place called Terrys Pizza. The pizza is amazing, with a hint of woodsmoke flavour. Beats the  local chainstore one handsdown

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@imastawka wrote:

 

Two Beans menu has my mouth watering.

 

Bit of a drive, but I will keep it in mind


Believe me imastawka. No matter how far you are it is worth the drive. Two beans is on a farm which is owned by Parks Victoria, not only is the food and coffee good - the view is unreal. Kangaroos in the field in front of you.

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@miltofran wrote:

UFO, I'm also curious why you would take your wife out tonight - probably one of the most miserable Melbourne weather conditions we've had this year.


I know LOL should have stayed home and cooked some pasta myself. I'm sure mine is better.

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

@miltofran wrote:

UFO, I'm also curious why you would take your wife out tonight - probably one of the most miserable Melbourne weather conditions we've had this year.


I know LOL should have stayed home and cooked some pasta myself. I'm sure mine is better.


 

I don't know you and I can guarantee your own cooking and food is a hundred times better than La Porcetta - and most other restaurants.

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