The Worst Restaurants that People Say are Good

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 on 2023.01.30
Multiple locations
11 Places
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All I wish for is that this list saves one person from going to one of these restaurants.

Geranium

Fine dining restaurant · Copenhagen East

The World's 50 Best is a scam. This is most definitely not the best restaurant in the world. Food was very mid, service was bad, atmosphere was worse. They don't even serve you enough food to be full. It is a strong contender for the worst 3 star dinner I've had, up there with the rest of this list.

Atelier Crenn

Modern French restaurant · Union Street

I cannot get over how they served me a dessert that was a falling snowman, that looked like a 3 year old made it. And it was a bad dessert. On top of that, all the dishes were bad. And the wines.

Belcanto

Restaurant · Chiado

I don't understand why anyone likes this place. Their signature dishes were quite possibly worse than their other dishes, which tells you enough. Plenty to write home about, but not in the good sense.

The Restaurant

Fine dining restaurant · Sonnenberg

I wish I could even begin to recount how laughably bad this experience was, but I'd like to save myself the trauma. I have a review up on Google/TripAdvisor on this, but I don't want to doxx myself and post it here.

Le Gabriel

Modern French restaurant · 8th Arrondissement

Service was bad, food was ridiculously sweet, the experience was terrible.

BELON

French restaurant · Soho

It saddens me to put this here because I loved Belon when Daniel Calvert was the chef. It was one of Hong Kong's best restaurants. Now, they charge obscene prices, and their staff have no shame in telling you the price of everything as they serve you.

Écriture

Permanently Closed

I don't think this is on anyone's radar, but it is a 2 star Michelin, so I figured I would add it. Everything was tasteless. The waiters were incompetent.

Cosme

Mexican restaurant · Flatiron District

Similar to Pujol, the hype is high, the reality is ratchet. Don't go, it's overpriced, not good, and outright bad.

Pujol

Fine dining restaurant · Polanco

I have had the misfortune of going here twice and now my life's mission is to warn people from having to endure coming here. Yes, there are a lot of novel things they serve you. No, they are not worth trying.

sketch

Fine dining restaurant · Mayfair

This is not Sketch, the egg bathrooms, this is the upstairs Sketch by Pierre Gagnaire. It is always empty, for good reason, and the reason is that the food is bad.

The Fat Duck

Fine dining restaurant · Bray

Just don't bother. All theatrics, no culinary talent.