It was my last dinner for my first vacation in Sardinia. I went with two friends and ordered a pasta with minced mussels and zucchini sauce. But they gave me pasta with minced fish eggs of white and red color (to fake mussels). It tasted awful and disgusting. They changed the food without telling me and when I asked for three times, they denied it and insisted it was fish eggs. In the end I asked a last time because I needed someone to tell the truth. Finally a waiter admited it was not mussels but it was 'eggs of scallops'. I was so shocked that they finally admitted it and they had been lying to me during the whole dinner, trying to trick me into eating trash that should have been thrown away (it was not scallops eggs of course, it was trash fish eggs). And even though I was just asking calmly to understand what they had served me, the waiter got upset and said to me, quote, 'I can change your dish, just like a child, if you don't like it I will change it.'
I was in shock and at the same time I was insulted. So I broke out and threw my napkin on the table. I had never been so mad at a restaurant ever in my life. I was fed trash, lied to and insulted.
In the end they didn't ask my table to pay at all and we got to leave without paying. But the night was ruined. I would rather have paid twice or three times more to be served the food on the menu and to be respected as a human being. But no, no one even said sorry to me even though I got so mad.
I'm still shocked this day when I look back. It was the most awful, disgusting, and insulting experience at a restaurant in my life. read more
