Worst Meal in Brooklyn?
As 2006 winds down, everybody seems to be making “Best Of” lists, but here at the Brooklyn Record, it’s hard to narrow down the list of our favorite local spots. So, how about helping our readers avoid the worst food our borough has to offer instead? Since we’ll eat almost anything set in front of…
As 2006 winds down, everybody seems to be making “Best Of” lists, but here at the Brooklyn Record, it’s hard to narrow down the list of our favorite local spots. So, how about helping our readers avoid the worst food our borough has to offer instead? Since we’ll eat almost anything set in front of us, we’re going to need your help with this one. What’s the most disappointing meal (or morsel) you’ve eaten this year? If you’ve experienced a chewy steak, a stinky fish, a sad excuse for a sandwich, or a wildly overhyped restaurant, leave us a comment — and don’t spare us the dirty details.
Please note: We can’t speak for the “tiny fishies” pictured above, but a Flickr photographer who goes by Urch snapped the photo at a Brooklyn Heights barbecue and labeled them “gross.”
sounds redundant…but just had to echo the above thoughts because they are SO true. Gravy and Lobo are awful. How can you screw up scrambled eggs or grilled cheese? Or coffee?
I disagree with the Bonita in W’Burg posts, although – I have been lucky enough to not contract botulism. It’s not a fantastic restaurant, but it’s certainly not the worst. I vote for Kellogg’s definitely, and for Relish in the ‘burg. I know a lot of people love that place, but I’ve only had really bad experiences there.
I will add to the chorus on Lobo. The one on Fifth Ave in Park Slope served me a bloody chicken fried steak, and the waiter tried to tell me “that’s how it’s supposed to be done”.
Junior’s – overrated, everything tastes like it comes out of gallon cans.
Stone Park takes the most overrated medal, chewy steak for an obscene price.
I ordered a “Thug Passion” (Alize and Hennessy) at Junior’s the one time I ate there. The waiter asked if I wanted that on the rocks or neat. I nearly choked on my water.
I disagree that all food in Brooklyn is mediocre. I’ve had some very nice meals at Savoia, at Union on Smith, and the excellent and inexpensive Zaytoons. I will have to agree that Gravy is pretty awful, and that Junior’s is overpriced mediocre diner food, except for the cheesecake and sometimes the pastrami.
nothing to do with the food (mediocre) but I have almost busted my fingers twice opening the door at gravy and getting my finger stuck in that stupid door handle.
One of my most disappointing meals was at Bonita in Williamsburg– but no botulism at least, thankfully! Madiba definitely gets the prize, though, for bad service and ridiculously overpriced, lousy food. I’m not the biggest fan of the food at Junior’s, but do love the fact that it’s still there after so many years. It’s certainly a Brooklyn institution.
Gravy, Pacifico, and the pizza shop attached to them. I imagine Trout is pretty crappy, too, though they do sell Garbage Plates. Raw-cha-cha.
I use sites like Chowhound and eGullet to avoid eating bad meals in general, but every once in a while I’ll try a new restaurant out before anyone else.
A pretty miserable experience can be had at the Armenian place out in Sheepshead Bay, and Sahara has gone downhill drastically. (Though I won’t say either is the worst meal I had this year.) In general, Brooklyn restaurants are much better than City one’s, I feel, but few go above and beyond. (We excel at mediocrity.)
For the record, the worst meal I had this year was at the DiFara’s spin-off in Manhattan – there must have been a half-litre of EVOO on my sandwich – it was disgusting.
Gravy is my kind of place. That is, if the food were good. Well, if the food were good and I didn’t see a roach crawling on the wall of my booth.
Beast is terribly overrated, as is Chez Oskar. Madiba is disgusting.ICI is overpriced for puny portions served with a great deal of pomp. In fact, it seems to me that Brooklyn diners are easily impressed by long-winded explanations of ‘grain fed’ and ‘house cured’ and ‘organically farmed’ mediocrity. I’ve had it – enough already.