I’ve eaten out several times in the last few months and each time it has been difficult. It’s not a coincidence, it’s because of staff shortages. I’m not keen to do it again though; I hate waiting an hour for my meal, finding parts missing etc.
Clearly has fuck all to do in their life if they’re writing reviews like that.
The steaks were flat! The indignity of it all.
This person sounds genuinely insufferable but them not being given their drinks on arrival like they asked isn’t great show to be fair, but I doubt any of the staff wanted to deal with them
Seems like a sad bastard
The sister had to go through the dense forests of Donnybrook in search of salt, almost getting caught in the quicksand and eaten by a 26 foot long crocodile………
Meanwhile back in the real world, covid and the new variant omniplex or plexi glass or whatever its called is running wild.
Omg try to get a bit of perspective here woman and get over yourself 🙄………
“Foraging for salt” is she on an episode of bear grylls
Feels like a snippet out of a Ross o’Carroll Kelly books 😂
Reading bad Google reviews sustains me. Many thanks for this absolute masterpiece.
Sounds like a right cunt.
Will someone think of the children!!!
Looks like one for r/iamveryculinary
Can only imagine how much fun that lunch was..
You can just tell that they’re the type of person actively looking for things to find fault with.
They’re an exhausting customer to deal with.
Tell me you haven’t got the ride in years without telling me you haven’t got the ride in years
This reads like Patrick Bateman wrote it.
Boring food, erm does she realise she’s they’re the ones who ordered it?
Pretty good idea which restaurant that is based on the description. Haven’t been in it since pre Covid but it was generally a solid and nice (not outstanding) place for a pleasant night out. I think the review is a bit harsh, and perhaps people should be kinder to those in the hospitality industry at the moment, they’ve had a rough two years.
I mean, yea it does come across as pretentious, but I guarantee that any restaurant in Donnybrook is hella expensive so if you’re getting a poor service and poor food then I’m glad there are detailed reviews that people take the time to write. A lot of 1 star reviews are left because of one particular isolated incident that is not likely to be repeated in most instance but it ruined the experience for that particular person (eg overbilling or a dispute with a waiter). At least the person here gave enough detail of all the things that made it bad, even if it read like they were auditioning for the Irish Times food supplement!
Must be a parody. Ross O’Caroll-Kelly-esque.
She thought the Béarnaise sauce excellent…
CREME DE MENTHE HAW HAW HAW!
Great review. Plenty of detail for the restaurant as opposed to someone writing “terrible, 1 star”.
If its an expensive place you’re going to you should be allowed to expect better.
I think it’s a fairly good review! The place sounds poor;- bad food, bad service – but it’s not a kip.
Had she unlocked a lost menu from the seventies?
Waiter: “How is everything?”
All Irish people: “Perfect, thank you!”
*Grumble-grumble*
This triggers my hospitality PTSD.
So many stories, so many nervous ticks.
Need a lie down.
They got served warm champagne, no salt pepper (how does this even happen?) or Parmesan, had their request for drinks on arrival (which was probably agreed to on booking) forgotten, and got served the wrong drink twice before getting what they asked for. Sounds like the review is reasonable enough and the staff need to get up to scratch.
The tone and wording shouldn’t take away from the fact that Irish people should complain when they get a poor service that they paid a premium price for.
Marco Pierre White’s place in Donnybrook alright
I ordered buckfast and was served with blue nun. I shan’t be returning to that establishment!
TL;DR skim glance at it and all I remember is the Bernaise sauce was excellent
Look here, if I go out and order a bottle of champagne, I’d want it cold. If I have crab, I would like no crunchy shells. And if I’m asking for salt in a restaurant, I’d hope I’d be given it. As much as laughing at entitled people entertains me, this does sound like a sub-par experience.
This is what you’re open to when you charge for food in Donnybrook. It looks completely normal to me, not at all ridiculous given the circumstances.
I mean the restaurant messed up over and over. But who has the time to leave these war and peace reviews?
Having worked in the hospitality industry most of my life I appreciate the detail. At the very least , the staff sound untrained and unprofessional. These customers had a very poor experience and I would certainly not have been surprised by a poor review.
Whoever read the whole thing deserves a medal honestly worth the time 😂
To bed honest all the points are valid
Who the fuck wants to sit in the centre table of a restaurant? I can think of nothing worse other than the time I shit myself after walking 3 miles to school before having to walk 3 miles back home again, pants full of my own shit, and explain to my mam what had happened to raucous laughter and abuse.
When i was in my 20s and working in a bar someone wrote a 2 page A4 handwritten letter to complain about the service during their meal. We didn’t serve food btw, because it was a bar, in a hotel that had a restaurant and a carvery. The best part was that I apparently didn’t stand close enough to her for her liking while taking her order, in the bar, that did not serve food. It is also a disgrace that a male worker would refuse two women service(by getting them a reservation last second in the restaurant rather than converting the bar for them and taking their order after they insist to the people who work in the restaurant and are trying to serve them that “that guy”(me) can do it if he ever bothers coming back and doing his job(which was qas doing but aas not his job)).
That letter was put up behind the bar as an ode to mental customers. Good times.
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I laughed all the way reading though that!
Looks like a place that lost all staff during the coof period and replaced it with people with no experience.
What started playing in my head as I read this
https://youtu.be/jZOywn1qArI
Get over yourself
Pretentious cunce
I’ve eaten out several times in the last few months and each time it has been difficult. It’s not a coincidence, it’s because of staff shortages. I’m not keen to do it again though; I hate waiting an hour for my meal, finding parts missing etc.
Clearly has fuck all to do in their life if they’re writing reviews like that.
The steaks were flat! The indignity of it all.
This person sounds genuinely insufferable but them not being given their drinks on arrival like they asked isn’t great show to be fair, but I doubt any of the staff wanted to deal with them
Seems like a sad bastard
The sister had to go through the dense forests of Donnybrook in search of salt, almost getting caught in the quicksand and eaten by a 26 foot long crocodile………
Meanwhile back in the real world, covid and the new variant omniplex or plexi glass or whatever its called is running wild.
Omg try to get a bit of perspective here woman and get over yourself 🙄………
“Foraging for salt” is she on an episode of bear grylls
Feels like a snippet out of a Ross o’Carroll Kelly books 😂
Reading bad Google reviews sustains me. Many thanks for this absolute masterpiece.
Sounds like a right cunt.
Will someone think of the children!!!
Looks like one for r/iamveryculinary
Can only imagine how much fun that lunch was..
You can just tell that they’re the type of person actively looking for things to find fault with.
They’re an exhausting customer to deal with.
Tell me you haven’t got the ride in years without telling me you haven’t got the ride in years
This reads like Patrick Bateman wrote it.
Boring food, erm does she realise she’s they’re the ones who ordered it?
Pretty good idea which restaurant that is based on the description. Haven’t been in it since pre Covid but it was generally a solid and nice (not outstanding) place for a pleasant night out. I think the review is a bit harsh, and perhaps people should be kinder to those in the hospitality industry at the moment, they’ve had a rough two years.
I mean, yea it does come across as pretentious, but I guarantee that any restaurant in Donnybrook is hella expensive so if you’re getting a poor service and poor food then I’m glad there are detailed reviews that people take the time to write. A lot of 1 star reviews are left because of one particular isolated incident that is not likely to be repeated in most instance but it ruined the experience for that particular person (eg overbilling or a dispute with a waiter). At least the person here gave enough detail of all the things that made it bad, even if it read like they were auditioning for the Irish Times food supplement!
Must be a parody. Ross O’Caroll-Kelly-esque.
She thought the Béarnaise sauce excellent…
CREME DE MENTHE HAW HAW HAW!
Great review. Plenty of detail for the restaurant as opposed to someone writing “terrible, 1 star”.
If its an expensive place you’re going to you should be allowed to expect better.
I think it’s a fairly good review! The place sounds poor;- bad food, bad service – but it’s not a kip.
Had she unlocked a lost menu from the seventies?
Waiter: “How is everything?”
All Irish people: “Perfect, thank you!”
*Grumble-grumble*
This triggers my hospitality PTSD.
So many stories, so many nervous ticks.
Need a lie down.
They got served warm champagne, no salt pepper (how does this even happen?) or Parmesan, had their request for drinks on arrival (which was probably agreed to on booking) forgotten, and got served the wrong drink twice before getting what they asked for. Sounds like the review is reasonable enough and the staff need to get up to scratch.
The tone and wording shouldn’t take away from the fact that Irish people should complain when they get a poor service that they paid a premium price for.
Marco Pierre White’s place in Donnybrook alright
I ordered buckfast and was served with blue nun. I shan’t be returning to that establishment!
TL;DR skim glance at it and all I remember is the Bernaise sauce was excellent
Look here, if I go out and order a bottle of champagne, I’d want it cold. If I have crab, I would like no crunchy shells. And if I’m asking for salt in a restaurant, I’d hope I’d be given it. As much as laughing at entitled people entertains me, this does sound like a sub-par experience.
This is what you’re open to when you charge for food in Donnybrook. It looks completely normal to me, not at all ridiculous given the circumstances.
I mean the restaurant messed up over and over. But who has the time to leave these war and peace reviews?
Having worked in the hospitality industry most of my life I appreciate the detail. At the very least , the staff sound untrained and unprofessional. These customers had a very poor experience and I would certainly not have been surprised by a poor review.
Whoever read the whole thing deserves a medal honestly worth the time 😂
To bed honest all the points are valid
Who the fuck wants to sit in the centre table of a restaurant? I can think of nothing worse other than the time I shit myself after walking 3 miles to school before having to walk 3 miles back home again, pants full of my own shit, and explain to my mam what had happened to raucous laughter and abuse.
When i was in my 20s and working in a bar someone wrote a 2 page A4 handwritten letter to complain about the service during their meal. We didn’t serve food btw, because it was a bar, in a hotel that had a restaurant and a carvery. The best part was that I apparently didn’t stand close enough to her for her liking while taking her order, in the bar, that did not serve food. It is also a disgrace that a male worker would refuse two women service(by getting them a reservation last second in the restaurant rather than converting the bar for them and taking their order after they insist to the people who work in the restaurant and are trying to serve them that “that guy”(me) can do it if he ever bothers coming back and doing his job(which was qas doing but aas not his job)).
That letter was put up behind the bar as an ode to mental customers. Good times.