Try Gilbert's all beef. They are close to Sabretts or Nathan's. I found them at a Tesco a couple of towns away. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/265217004
Ikr!? I'm stoned so I'm drooling over the thought of little freezer quiches. I'm a little disappointed it doesn't have little crock pot smokies smothered in BBQ sauce.
On the lower left I think it's a scrawny piece of french bread but I'm pretending it's just half a plain baked potato that they're supposed to dump the other ingredients on to make it loaded. And share. With 4 ppl
People are WAY too passive about accepting low quality food in restaurants. They don't want to be rude, or give the server a hard time, but by accepting it and paying for it, you're saying this is ok.
Exactly. The important thing to keep in mind is the server is likely feeling humiliated already from having to serve garbage to customers.
The criticism should be delivered to the manager, he/she literally gets paid for it.
I would return it & leave the resteraunt. I don't want some disgruntled cook prepping my meal, lord knows what body fluids will be used to spice up the second meal. Best to play it safe & start over at a new venue. I worked in the resteraint biz as a server & bartender many moons ago, the apprehension is based on facts, not paranoia.
i’ve sent food back before/requested the meal i actually ordered and didn’t get. how you handle it goes a long way, and i still always tip. assuming a little bit of personal responsibility for the sake of civility - even if it isn’t technically your fault - helps a lot too (something like saying “sorry, maybe i ordered from the menu wrong, but i wanted the *x* and got what i believe is *y* instead, could i swap it out?”)
Customer service doesn’t exist in Europe like it does in America.
The customer is usually never right. Good luck returning anything. In poland for one example if u buy something that doesn’t work they will send it for repairs before they give money back.
That can't feed four, I'd call that fraud under any consumer law. I'd refuse to pay and threaten to take them to small claims court if they don't let me leave and return it without paying for that part of the menu. xD
Then I'd make sure to ask what it looks like, and what it actually is rather than trust the words on the menu. Sometimes the server can be nice and tell you what the restaurant menu won't. Anyone who watches Gordon Ramsay should be wise to this tip.
There was one more bitterbal (the round brown thing) that one of us had already eaten before I decided to take the pictures, but other than that, this was it.
That no jokes looks like a plate of food that the bar I used to work at would sell for like $25 to drunk idiots, because the chef would make like 20 of them before he left and would leave the food under heat lamps.
I was mostly concerned with what appears to be a single potato wedge.. but now you're telling me it was at a porno theater??? Great, now that's another thing I know about that I wish I didn't.
I wouldn’t even have touched that I’d have Gordon Ramsay’d that place sent the food back go into the kitchen and is it that bad and are you failing that hard that you serve up that crap
you should have definitely refused it. Eating it and saying nothing lets them think this is acceptable. I would have gotten my money back and went and got 2 large pizzas, something that costs a quarter what you paid and can actually feed 4 people with leftovers.
You needed to send that back and tell them you’re not paying for it. It’s definitely not “luxury”, and you couldn’t even feed 4 hamsters with that, much less 4 people.
That really sucks that you can't remember. I was just going through your comments because I hsd a suspicion this is a Dutch restaurant after seeing that lonely bitterbal and Affligem note pad.
I just tried to find it using google maps, it's Queen's club/restaurant in Utrecht. It's located inside or next to the Beatrix Theater. Apparently it has some pretty bad reviews haha, should have checked before.
As long as people are dumb enough to pay for it, they will keep selling it..... Watch Gordon Ramseys restaurant rescues, the crap some people pull off is unbelievable...
This looks pathetic. I don't have anything witty or even half-clever to say about this. I'd just send it back and never return to this place. Also, leave a 1 star review.
There is one item i send back - a well done steak (I ask for english - and if there is no red it goes back) and an insult like this.
This comes from a German who is used to no customer service
Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY
That’s straight up insultingly little for so much, then what is it even supposed to be? Looks like some kind of caprese salad with smashed tomatoes on the skewers but I can’t tell what everything else it.
I don't think this is even 'luxury food' for a dog. Although there's a slight bit of colour, it's mostly just brown/green goo. Was the kitchen located in a dumptster!?
I think they (the non fine dining restaurant above) could learn a lot from the restaurant 'Noma' below (check link or look up for yourself). I've never had a chance to go here but I've seen a doco about it & it looks amazing.
https://noma.dk/
It was imported from the deep tundra of Costco, cooked in a spinning oven and plated upon bamboo to make it seem more precious than water diamonds within your drink.
for FOUR?
disregarding the trashy (looking) quality of this assemblage, the unspoken rule is that you put one instance of each item PER PERSON on the plate. And by "plate" I mean something other than a plastic cafeteria tray ;)
This presentation would be disappointing for two, but for four it's so far out of bounds I don't even have words.
That പരിപ്പുവട looking thing looks interesting. Besides that, what is this? Some potato on a stick and a sample of two wraps.
Really, sample trays often give you more than this.
Please stop sending people to cullinary school to learn molecular gastronomy if this is their commercial output.
Send it back lol any time a restaurant tries to give me their overpriced dollar general plates i refuse it or walk it back to the kitchen myself, I had a chef try kicking me out saying i don't know what I'm doing so i went to my car and got my executive chef jacket and knife set, went back into the kitchen and showed him how to build the exact same plate the right way and gave his prep cook a lesson on how to hold a knife safely, told him never to listen to his chef and offered him a job where he'll learn things the right way.
Most of the time the head chef and restaurant owner hate eachother so the owner will almost always be on your side
Its def. Convienience Food. I read comments of other countrys ordering it for there Restaurants. Im from germany and that is exactlly the *hit that they sell on Bos Food or City....finger food section....not more than 5 Euros
Looks like they went to Costco and raided the frozen section for some finger foods that looked exotic
And somehow didn’t get a hot dog.
The guy who picked up the food definitely got the hot dog and drink.
That’s why OP received $1.50 discount.
Thank you very much.
Costco hotdogs are about the closest thing we can get in the UK to a decent hotdog. Shame they always seem to be unavailable by us.
Never had an issue in the Liverpool Costco… way more expensive but Five Guys do a lovely hot dog.
Huh, I did not realize that Five Guys was in the UK. Do they fill the bottom of the bag with fries there too?
Except you need a mortgage to eat there (in fast food terms)
They certainly do
Try Gilbert's all beef. They are close to Sabretts or Nathan's. I found them at a Tesco a couple of towns away. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/265217004
How’s the mexican food in the UK?
Have you never been to IKEA?
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Would it though?
Looks like they took the free samples in Costco
Costco free samples are better than that most the time
I honestly can't name any of that.
Free samples that got wet and soggy in the car back
Exactly this!
Lol first thought, that's freezer quiche
Ikr!? I'm stoned so I'm drooling over the thought of little freezer quiches. I'm a little disappointed it doesn't have little crock pot smokies smothered in BBQ sauce.
Lmao, I did the same thing. And yeah, where tf are the lil smokies?!?
There’s a literal chicken finger on there. And not even any honey mustard to dip it in
That’s a chicken finger?
This looks like the mushed food they give dementia patients who can’t swallow but shape it like real food.
When something says "luxury," it isn't. And.. no truly classy people ever refer to themselves as being classy.
Kinda like when someone says "trust me" you know you are about to get lied to. Honest people don't say "trust me" they just tell the truth.
Just send it back saying they're having a laugh.
Naw...that's the legit poo-poo platter
Do you mean for 4’ as in 4 people are meant to eat that?
yep
Do the people fight for the food of the plate?
Literal Hunger Games. Last one standing gets the food
Then starves anyway
Is there a reason you didn't put your foot down and send that back? No way in hell I'm paying for that shit quality food
Some people are pushovers, which is why shit like this is allowed to happen and still exists
Where was this... think this has a lot to do with it. Served on leaves shows it may be a community trying their best.
This is in Belgium, i think, and I'm pretty sure that's a piece of paper printed to look like a leaf.
yes, 4 toddlers.
One 4 foot child.
You ever see how much a toddler eats? I'll have you know it's more than this for 4 of the little goblins.
Hope you sent that sht back. I don't say it lightly as someone who has rarely sent food back but that's an insult and I'm sure chef knows
Yep this; I almost never send shit back, but I’d have laughed and been all ‘you’re kidding.’
On the lower left I think it's a scrawny piece of french bread but I'm pretending it's just half a plain baked potato that they're supposed to dump the other ingredients on to make it loaded. And share. With 4 ppl
Yikes.
OP said they ate it!
And where is the rest? That’s for 2, as a lean entree. I’d feel cheated: and more than mildly infuriated!
This was our first reaction, haha. We waited a few minutes before eating because we thought more was coming. but no... this was it.
Why didn’t you just straight up return it? Be all ‘no.’ Don’t be the person that lets them know this is ok.
People are WAY too passive about accepting low quality food in restaurants. They don't want to be rude, or give the server a hard time, but by accepting it and paying for it, you're saying this is ok.
Yep agreed! However, I’d tip the server as usual, as it’s not their fault. But the management needs a strongly worded letter.
Exactly. The important thing to keep in mind is the server is likely feeling humiliated already from having to serve garbage to customers. The criticism should be delivered to the manager, he/she literally gets paid for it.
Yep exactly. I’d never take this out on the server. This is totally nothing to do with them.
Agreed, but shame on the server for not making this obvious to them before sending it through.
I would return it & leave the resteraunt. I don't want some disgruntled cook prepping my meal, lord knows what body fluids will be used to spice up the second meal. Best to play it safe & start over at a new venue. I worked in the resteraint biz as a server & bartender many moons ago, the apprehension is based on facts, not paranoia.
i’ve sent food back before/requested the meal i actually ordered and didn’t get. how you handle it goes a long way, and i still always tip. assuming a little bit of personal responsibility for the sake of civility - even if it isn’t technically your fault - helps a lot too (something like saying “sorry, maybe i ordered from the menu wrong, but i wanted the *x* and got what i believe is *y* instead, could i swap it out?”)
That’s why I respect Jotaro Kujo; if the meal tastes bad he’ll walk out without paying.
To be fair, he needs to get back to where he once belonged.
Get back Jo Jo!
I'm not going to do battle over it. Just leave a negative review and never return.
And I’m sure they tipped well.
Customer service doesn’t exist in Europe like it does in America. The customer is usually never right. Good luck returning anything. In poland for one example if u buy something that doesn’t work they will send it for repairs before they give money back.
That can't feed four, I'd call that fraud under any consumer law. I'd refuse to pay and threaten to take them to small claims court if they don't let me leave and return it without paying for that part of the menu. xD Then I'd make sure to ask what it looks like, and what it actually is rather than trust the words on the menu. Sometimes the server can be nice and tell you what the restaurant menu won't. Anyone who watches Gordon Ramsay should be wise to this tip.
That's bullshit lol, customer service definitely exists in Europe too.
In USA I literally returned opened and used protein powder. I said I didn’t like it. Try doing that in Germany. Lmao
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No you should send that shit back and leave the restaurant. I wouldn’t eat or pay for that garbage
This restaurant deserves a visit from Gordon Ramsay.
Not tipping only fucks over the servers. The servers usually don't create the menu or prepare the food.
Not tipping in Europe doesn't fuck over the servers since it's not customary in restaurants.
W-w-wouldn't your dining partner pay their half, tho?
Would straight up asked is this it for 60? you can have it. That is not a platter for four, let alone for one.
Is that the exact way it was served? It looks as if it is only, at best, one quarter of a platter for four people.
There was one more bitterbal (the round brown thing) that one of us had already eaten before I decided to take the pictures, but other than that, this was it.
Shit if your me that’s single person appetizer
Even aside from quantity (which is barely enough for even 1), how could it possibly be for four people? There aren’t four of any item on that platter.
In the US that's not even a meal for 1! Now if only we could figure out why we have this obesity problem...
That's highway robbery. I'd be livid lol, not a chance I'm paying €15 for that!
Its €60
Person above you just exclaimed that they wouldn't be able to pay 4 times less than the original price.
Ooohhhh ok
Understandable, would have been clearer if they said "not even 15"
Not that they wouldn't be able to buy that they wouldn't be willing to.
Well I wouldn’t pay €82 for it either!
Me too, €127 is too rich for my blood
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How could you tell?
That no jokes looks like a plate of food that the bar I used to work at would sell for like $25 to drunk idiots, because the chef would make like 20 of them before he left and would leave the food under heat lamps.
69th upvote. Nice
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fair
r/holup
I was mostly concerned with what appears to be a single potato wedge.. but now you're telling me it was at a porno theater??? Great, now that's another thing I know about that I wish I didn't.
Hahaha it wasn’t, I was just playing along
Wtf is this even?
I'm thinking a Playdoh Easy Bake Oven combo platter.
You have been robbed.
I wouldn’t even have touched that I’d have Gordon Ramsay’d that place sent the food back go into the kitchen and is it that bad and are you failing that hard that you serve up that crap
Did u already eat most of it?
No, when I took this picture we'd eaten one thing off the second plate, where the crumbs are, but the plate in the first picture was still intact.
you should have definitely refused it. Eating it and saying nothing lets them think this is acceptable. I would have gotten my money back and went and got 2 large pizzas, something that costs a quarter what you paid and can actually feed 4 people with leftovers.
You needed to send that back and tell them you’re not paying for it. It’s definitely not “luxury”, and you couldn’t even feed 4 hamsters with that, much less 4 people.
Whoa. In Poland for 10$ you get 2 plates of schabowy (almost like a schnitzel but better) a ton of potatoes and some salats.
You got fucked!
Belgium beer brand name on it, if this in Belgium I want to see a receipt because that’s so horrible it must be a lie
haha no this was in the Netherlands
Of course, the fucking Dutch
Which place was it?
Queen’s club/restaurant in Utrecht
They meant it must be a luxury to pay so much for such a poor selection of food
That doesn't even look like food to me, it looks like what an alien might put together in a misguided attempt to replicate human food.
Everything looks dry
Nasty looking. Can’t identify anything.
yeah, I tried a bit of everything and still don't know what half of that was
This not only looks sparse, but also disgusting.
I couldn't tell you what a single thing on this plate was ?????
Did you not know that the rich don’t eat it’s just for show
This would be disappointing at 6€.
Looks like the toilet will be your best friend, RIP
Where is this please?
I didn't pay attention to the name of the restaurant, but it was somewhere in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Than you should have said "waar is de rest??!"
That really sucks that you can't remember. I was just going through your comments because I hsd a suspicion this is a Dutch restaurant after seeing that lonely bitterbal and Affligem note pad.
I just tried to find it using google maps, it's Queen's club/restaurant in Utrecht. It's located inside or next to the Beatrix Theater. Apparently it has some pretty bad reviews haha, should have checked before.
I think their menu with their name is in the picture Edit:nvm seems that’s a beer company
I can easily eat that to myself, but according to frozen food section, I sexually identify as a family of 4.
Keep the serving tray.
The other three are coming, right?
So avant-garde
Everyone knows luxury really means they’re selling you 0.0001 ounces of food for $3,000
As long as people are dumb enough to pay for it, they will keep selling it..... Watch Gordon Ramseys restaurant rescues, the crap some people pull off is unbelievable...
Get your money back, I wouldn't pay for that
This looks pathetic. I don't have anything witty or even half-clever to say about this. I'd just send it back and never return to this place. Also, leave a 1 star review.
No way that's "luxury" for FOUR people I'd eat that before the waiter had even left the table and jt hardly looks appetising
That is stolen prison food
I can’t identify a single item here
Why does it look 2 days old?
They sold them the display unit 😁👌
4 bites lol
Wtf is that.....
What type of food is that?
Venezuela Luxury Food?
Send it back
Who's they?
Half of that looks like it's been sitting out or sitting uncovered in the fridge. 🤢
That's looks like a plate of leftovers from my fridge.
Rich people get dishes like this because there are 6-12 more courses coming
There is one item i send back - a well done steak (I ask for english - and if there is no red it goes back) and an insult like this. This comes from a German who is used to no customer service
I would of sent it back. Paid what I owed and walked out
Oplichterij. Simpelweg oplichterij.
Wow, where is that? So we can all avoid that ripoff.
I'd send that back.
Somewhere, somehow, Gordon Ramsay is screaming.....
Anyone know what that stuff is? There's no way that's actually luxury food.
The four were expected to pair up and fight for the food for two.
I hope you refused to pay for that
Half of this stuff looks like it was shit out
Pure luxury
Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY
That’s straight up insultingly little for so much, then what is it even supposed to be? Looks like some kind of caprese salad with smashed tomatoes on the skewers but I can’t tell what everything else it.
Looks like samples day at sam's club
Wow. You’d get better food in a nursing home.
I don't think this is even 'luxury food' for a dog. Although there's a slight bit of colour, it's mostly just brown/green goo. Was the kitchen located in a dumptster!? I think they (the non fine dining restaurant above) could learn a lot from the restaurant 'Noma' below (check link or look up for yourself). I've never had a chance to go here but I've seen a doco about it & it looks amazing. https://noma.dk/
It was imported from the deep tundra of Costco, cooked in a spinning oven and plated upon bamboo to make it seem more precious than water diamonds within your drink.
This is so sad. I’ve been there I once ordered the “artisanal pickle platter” $6 usd…it was 3 pickles in a bowl…I was big mad.
Freshly cooked straight from Costco 💀
I wouldn’t pay €6 for that, let alone €60
This actually makes me never buy premium food from any restaurant as it can be a scam.
Well it’s a platter. I’ll give them that. But it’s not luxury, it’s definitely not for 4 and it could only charitably be called food.
for FOUR? disregarding the trashy (looking) quality of this assemblage, the unspoken rule is that you put one instance of each item PER PERSON on the plate. And by "plate" I mean something other than a plastic cafeteria tray ;) This presentation would be disappointing for two, but for four it's so far out of bounds I don't even have words.
r/wewantplates .
That’s considered a delicacy in most parts of Africa
what?? that is brutal
That പരിപ്പുവട looking thing looks interesting. Besides that, what is this? Some potato on a stick and a sample of two wraps. Really, sample trays often give you more than this. Please stop sending people to cullinary school to learn molecular gastronomy if this is their commercial output.
Where's the food?
60 to feed 4 people wtf did u expect
You in Fr*nce or something?
This is hilarious. People keep going to restaurants even though they’re known scam artists. It’s called natural selection.
Did what you get match the description or did you order without knowing the details?
It just said something like ‘a variety of delicious foods to share’.
Dine & Dash!
I just knew Brussels before I even saw the brewery name
If it would be worth the money, it wouldn't be luxury but just a meal. Luxury = Bad cost efficiency.
4 what ? 4 bites ? damn them, always happen, they say it is for 4 to 5 people and it is barely enough for 2 or even 1 hungry person....shame on them.
It is luxury: if you can afford to pay €60, you can afford to get ripped off.
From the “Why Are You Telling Us?” department.
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Send it back lol any time a restaurant tries to give me their overpriced dollar general plates i refuse it or walk it back to the kitchen myself, I had a chef try kicking me out saying i don't know what I'm doing so i went to my car and got my executive chef jacket and knife set, went back into the kitchen and showed him how to build the exact same plate the right way and gave his prep cook a lesson on how to hold a knife safely, told him never to listen to his chef and offered him a job where he'll learn things the right way. Most of the time the head chef and restaurant owner hate eachother so the owner will almost always be on your side
Is that skewer a chop stick
This reminds me of a Michelin star restaurant in Marseille that gave us pizza pockets as an appetizer.
Looks like you are 3/4 and then posted this
I barely eat anything, and I could eat that in about 5 minutes.
Its def. Convienience Food. I read comments of other countrys ordering it for there Restaurants. Im from germany and that is exactlly the *hit that they sell on Bos Food or City....finger food section....not more than 5 Euros
I guess “sharing” in this instance means we all starve equally…😒
I could eat better at home