Avocado, goat's cheese, mushroom, olives, red onion...
Don't you hate it when you look at a menu at a fancy restaurant and basically every single meal has something you don't like in it? And the rest of the things are described using words that look like they've been made up! Grrr.
Discuss restaurant menu frustrations.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I guess no one ever taught you to order things without things?
Poor guy.
Originally Posted by Fynn
If it's a good restaurant then most of those things should be very well balanced in the dish and be put there for a reason. At a nice restaurant is when I'll be most likely to try some new kind of food or one that I previously didn't like.
If it's a basic, run of the mill restaurant or bistro then like TB says, just have them cook it without the thing you don't like.
There are a couple really trendy, hipster restaurants in KC that I like. And their food is AMAZING.
And like Phil said, if it's there, it's there for a reason. I had some steamed spinach with mushroom and red onion. I HATE onion. And I ate the trout out of it.
I'm not going to risk £25 on something coated in something I don't like in the hope that my opinion might have changed. That's just... weird, Phil. How rich are you? xD I can understand trying something new, sure, but something that you don't like? o_o No!
I do ask for "_____ without the ______", that kind of goes without saying (well, for me it does). More often than not, though, I'll find that one or two items will suit my tastes. I'm just wondering if anyone else finds themselves looking at a bundle of completely absurd restaurant menus like that. Generally these restaurants only have like... ten to twenty different meals on the menu, just to really drive the point home.
EDIT: The real fun comes from those places that have menus without any description, and only foreign words for the meals you can procure.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I'm not rich (although I never feel money spent on a good meal is a waste, if you knew how much the restaurant we went to for my 21st cost you would probably faint >_<), but I love food and don't believe in flat out saying that I dislike something and I'll hear no more on the discussion. Even the foods that up until this point I haven't enjoyed, I would never be silly enough to claim to have tried them cooked every way possible. Just because I didn't enjoy some eggplant cooked a certain way and paired with a certain kind of food, doesn't mean that I won't enjoy it cooked in a completely different way and used in a completely different dish.
That would be like saying I hate all paintings that use the colour green because I saw one painting once that used too much green and now I just hate it. There's lots of shades of green and when you mix it with other colours it can make something completely different
All that said though, I understand that it is not a very popular train of thought and I am not one of those people that is offended when someone dislikes a certain kind of food and wants it removed (hating something before you've even tried it is another story though, those people are ridiculous). Sometimes people have had such a bad experience with an ingredient that it will tarnish their taste buds forever and they just won't be able to get over that one dish. Also I don't trust lots of restaurants to cook something good enough that it will change the way I think about it, but if you don't try you'll never know right?
I get what you're saying, but what do you do if you try something you generally don't like and then... don't like it? You've just spent £25 or so on something that you don't want to eat. Do you send it back? Eat it anyway? Leave it? Just seems like a lot fo money to throw away for me. I love to spend money on good food, but I try it at low costs before I go expensive.
And no matter what, I've never enjoyed anything with avocado and I can always taste mushroom in the mushroom sauce. Red onion isn't too bad, but mushroom and avocado are just terrible every time. Asparagus is just as bad.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
This happens to me a lot when I go to a new restaurant because I don't like trying new things. So even if it doesn't look gross, if it isn't on my approved lists of food to eat at a restaurant I just stare at the menu and sigh a lot.
Fair enough, when it comes to eating out you have to do whatever you have to do in order to feel you got your money's worth. Whether that's taking something out or sending something back. I've had my fair share of meals I've disliked that had ingredients that I normally really enjoy though, I'm not really one to send something back but in that instance is it okay to do that? I suppose so, to each his own.
If I ever ordered a mushroom sauce where I couldn't taste the mushrooms in it then I would definitely send it back
Goat's Cheese? More like foat's feese! I hate it when restaurants kick me out for smelling bad
Every restaurant can make grilled cheese sandwiches
Me and my kids have dragon eggs:
don't go to fancy restaurants
problem smurfing solved
Oh Phil <3
I am divided on this since I am a cook and I work in a restaurant where we have a very fussy clientele. Like people modifying their orders until it doesn't resemble the dish or even wanting it server in a specific plate/bowl. You come to loathe these people and just start laughing at the sheer ridiculousness. Insofar as that goes, I do not have much sympathy for you.
On the other hand, a simple modification (like say you wanted no avocados on your salad) is reasonable. I mean worst case scenario, you can find something on the menu that you will like. It is not impossible, unless you have crazy allergies.
If you don't like goat cheese something is wrong.
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