In the early 90’s, we went to a Ponderosa steakhouse for dinner one night. When my meal was brought to the table, I moved the kale garnish to the side with my fork. When I did that, it opened up and hundreds of these little green bugs came spilling out and dashing all over my plate like it was “Starship Troopers”. The manager tried to get me to accept a gift card instead of a refund. I made so much of a racket that he just ended up handing me cash from the register just to get me out.

it was actually at a denny's in either oregon or washington . got seated and then it took over 30 minutes for server (young man) to even take just our drink order. then at least another 40 minutes to take our food order. yest it was busy but he was terrible. when we politely complained he said "well that sure sucks" he totally messed up our food orders and that's when we asked for the manager...i think she took a few dollars off the bill,,,,but that kid should not have been a server

I took a girlfriend to a fancy restaurant, as a special treat. We sat down and looked at the menu and both realized it was FAR more expensive that we had even imagined. I forget if we ordered a salad to share and then left, or just left! It was not the night out I had hoped for.

any chinese restaurant that has a lavish bar is probably bad for the food. last one i tried was PF Chang's. it was disgusting and there were bugs in the napa cabbage. the other one i tried all the food was exactly the same color brown no matter what dish you got lol. ive forgotten the name of it.

eta- the worst dining experience though was with my ex husband. im vegetarian so we were at a place that only had one vegetable soup dish as a vegetarian option. we got our food. he got this gorgeous plate piled high with food and i got a little bowl of vegetable soup. he then proceeded to take his bread and dunk it in my soup sopping up all the liquid. (without asking) i mean he didnt just dunk it real quick he let it sit there till all the liquid was gone. worst dining experience. lol. i still think about that everytime i go out to eat.

I was a kid and we were on a vacation. Parents picked a restaurant with a sea view and ordered a rotisserie chicken. They brought something extra bony, sinewy with little meat and soft skin. 😂 We still joke about it so perhaps not the worst experience after all.

Valle's Steakhouse in Braintree, (now out of business). The hostess deliberately seated us at a table whose waitress had not shown up for work, so that WE would complain about not having a waitress.

We sat there for more than 30 minutes waiting for someone to wait on us, before another waitress had pity and told us that OUR waitress had not shown up for work. Naturally, the restaurant being the dysfunctional mess that it WAS, no one else would wait on us. When we walked out the door, un-fed, I blasted the hostess for doing that to us. When I got home I wrote the manager a blistering letter.

I must say that was one restaurant I was happy to see go out of business.

On a date with a friends sister....and after 45 minutes the food didn't come, while everyone else got theirs, the waiter said 5 more minutes, so 10 minutes later we walked out and pizza and ice cream which turned out to be fun....

They once forgot that I ordered already and was surprised when I enquired.

I was shocked too, because they had like only two customers that night.

They basically forgot to help half of their customers.

Ended up at a deli place that only took cash, not even a debit card, and tried to feed 4 on ~ $55 in NYC (several yrs ago) .. 3 or us split a large deli sandwich combo, one had a hot dog, and I went without a drink

We got asked to leave, after we ordered and had drinks, because, although I stated when I sat down, because my friend hadnt told them I had a nut allergy when he booked the table, the chef refused to serve cook for me.