22 Of The Meanest and Brutally Honest Restaurant Reviews Ever

Daniel Bonfiglio Published 08/21/2024 in wtf

Have you ever eaten at a restaurant so awful, you wanted to make sure nobody repeated your mistake?

That's what happened to these 20 people, who took it upon themselves to leave furious reviews. From professional critics to dumb hypocrites, here are some of the angriest restaurant reviews ever hashed out for all to see.

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Food critic A. A. Gill wrote a scathing review of New York’s “66” restaurant for Vanity Fair. In it, he critiqued the dumplings, “What if we called them fishy liver-filled condoms?” and much more. ““The memory of the rest has been elided into one long, bland, watery compost that could barely incite flatulence.” (Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten pictured.)
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Gordon Ramsey is known for being quite the angry critic, but Besha Rodell gave him a taste of his own medicine when reviewing his restaurant Fat Cow in 2012. “How could our lunch possibly be so bad? How was the fish? Who knows? All I could taste was glop.” The restaurant closed two years later.
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“How dare a restaurant take bookings when I will be arriving unannounced!”
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Critic Matthew Evans got the Sydney Morning Herald fined $600,000 in a defamation lawsuit, after his 2003 review of Coco Roco on Sydney’s King Street Wharf was so bad it helped put the establishment out of business. “The menu isn’t held back by minor glitches; it’s flawed in concept and execution,” he wrote. “Half the dishes I’ve tried at Coco Roco are simply unpalatable.” Pictured, Ljiljana Gacic and Branislav Ciric leave after giving evidence at the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney in November, 2009.
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Food critic A. A. Gill wrote a scathing review of New York’s “66” restaurant for Vanity Fair. In it, he critiqued the dumplings, “What if we called them fishy liver-filled condoms?” and much more. ““The memory of the rest has been elided into one long, bland, watery compost that could barely incite flatulence.” (Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten pictured.)
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Gordon Ramsey is known for being quite the angry critic, but Besha Rodell gave him a taste of his own medicine when reviewing his restaurant Fat Cow in 2012. “How could our lunch possibly be so bad? How was the fish? Who knows? All I could taste was glop.” The restaurant closed two years later.
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“How dare a restaurant take bookings when I will be arriving unannounced!”
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Critic Matthew Evans got the Sydney Morning Herald fined $600,000 in a defamation lawsuit, after his 2003 review of Coco Roco on Sydney’s King Street Wharf was so bad it helped put the establishment out of business. “The menu isn’t held back by minor glitches; it’s flawed in concept and execution,” he wrote. “Half the dishes I’ve tried at Coco Roco are simply unpalatable.” Pictured, Ljiljana Gacic and Branislav Ciric leave after giving evidence at the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney in November, 2009.
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