Come dine with me

[norrahe]

I want good food, not a lecture about what I’m supposed to like.Rant over.

Which restaurant was that?

unfortunately you get some chefs who think they know better than their customers and the vast majority of michelin star chefs do not adhere to that way of thinking.

but I know where you're coming from.

[Ruprect]

I don’t mind the odd ‘chef’s latest trick’ dish, but some chefs are so far up their own behinds it just pisses me off. I want good food, not some overblown kitchen chemist’s latest brainfarts. Fine if you give me one or two in-between dishes that surprise me, but I really feel like I’m being taken for a ride with this tosh. It's just tacky, a bit like a white bentley with chrome 'keep wizzing about' wheel covers.

A couple of weeks ago Mrs Tester and I, who aren’t exactly your regular Little Chef customers when we go out to eat, went to a place with 2 stars that had lots of rave reviews. 5 courses, 4 very good, but 1 just wrecked everything; cold chicken stock with a mussel floating in it and a weird foam on top. Of course it was called ‘Chilled Cappuccino’ of something or other, but it looked like a cat's ear in formaldehyde and the only way I can describe the taste and texture of it is to say that I can’t believe any heterosexual man would enjoy it. I had the temerity to suggest to the waiter that it might taste better warm, and before you knew it, there was the chef, calling me an uncultured bumpkin and lots more stuff I shan’t repeat. I might be an uncultured bumpkin and granted, I look a bit like a baddy from a Rocky film, but I’m a paying customer and I want good food, not a lecture about what I’m supposed to like.

Rant over.

Come on - name and shame.

[Mich the Tester]

Come on - name and shame.

Have already done so; Bokkepruik in Hardenberg, eastern NL.

[Ruprect]

you're too quick for me - if I'm ever in eastern NL I will avoid!

[norrahe]

Have already done so; Bokkepruik in Hardenberg, eastern NL.

I should add if the chef came out and gave me an earful, I would have told him to shove his menu where the sun doesn't shine and have left the restaurant.

[Mich the Tester]

I should add if the chef came out and gave me an earful, I would have told him to shove his menu where the sun doesn't shine and have left the restaurant.

I just said give me my pud and leave me alone. I can’t be bothered fighting with these tossers. Paid, no tip, left.

[norrahe]

I just said give me my pud and leave me alone. I can’t be bothered fighting with these tossers. Paid, no tip, left.

I would have just left, you would have been perfectly within your rights to do so.

[Moscow Mule]

I would have just left, you would have been perfectly within your rights to do so.

I know you are in the UK (provided you can prove you were able to pay) but does that apply in NL too?

[Mich the Tester]

I know you are in the UK (provided you can prove you were able to pay) but does that apply in NL too?

I don't believe it does. I'd still have to pay for the satisfactory dishes and I can't be bothered arguing the point before I've had my pud.

[Ruprect]

I don't believe it does. I'd still have to pay for the satisfactory dishes and I can't be bothered arguing the point before I've had my pud.

What was pud? Chef's special dumplings with a sticky frothy sauce?