Dinners From Hell offers true stories about restaurant dining disasters written by diners, servers and chefs.

We've all had those dining experiences when things went dreadfully wrong. Perhaps it was a social blunder, an obnoxious diner, a waiter or waitress with an attitude, an embarrassing faux pas, or a food or beverage incident. Find out what others have had to endure by reading stories about dinners gone bad.

Cruise Ship Pig-Out

February 15, 2011 Food & Drink Stories

My wife and I were on a Caribbean cruise and decided to eat at one of the specialty restaurants on the ship. They charge an extra fee per person for these meals. The Italian restaurant we chose was wonderful in terms of service (attentive and informative), taste (everything was great), and ambience (quiet, view). The [...]

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Mr. Snooty Snoot

February 11, 2011 Server Stories

Many years ago I had my first experience involving a “fine dining” establishment. I took my college sweetheart to a high-priced restaurant in Sarasota, Florida for her birthday. We dressed in the best clothing that we could afford at that time with our limited incomes. She wore a nice dress, and I had on a [...]

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Story & Comment Ratings on Dinners From Hell

January 23, 2011 Dining Hell Blog

Dinners From Hell now offers story and comment ratings. We’ve added these services to help boost story and comment quality, promote more interaction, and enhance the overall experience of using our website. The story rating service comes from Polldaddy and the comment rating service comes from IntenseDebate. Both companies were purchased in 2008 by Automatic, [...]

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Mad Over Menudo

January 11, 2011 Food & Drink Stories

We have been regulars at a local New Mexican restaurant since it opened over 12 years ago. Last winter my husband and I ordered the seasonal posole soup. The waitress brought the bowls of soup out, only his was menudo, made with tripe. They looked and smelled differently, and when we pointed this out to our [...]

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Personal Space Invader

December 5, 2010 Server Stories

Some time ago I went to a chain restaurant (think of a fruit and honey-making insect) with my mother and sister. The food was good, the service was good, we had a fun time. We’re amicable people, and enjoy small-talk with waiters… well, my mum and sister do, I’m hard of hearing so I’m generally [...]

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Time Waits for No Teen

November 19, 2010 Server Stories

About a year ago, three friends and I were visiting a city a couple of hours from our home town. It was somewhat late at night but we decided we wanted to eat out. After looking up local reviews and searching for a place within walking distance, we finally chose a restaurant. We walked through [...]

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Long Line Tests Employee’s Endurance

October 24, 2010 Fast Food Stories

We were a group of college kids taking a geology field trip. We left Wichita around noon, and headed west for Colorado. As a geological field trip, we stopped at every outcrop and formation of rocks along the way between here and there. By the time we made it to Colorado Springs, the instructor started [...]

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No Laughs for Diners in Comedy Club

October 22, 2010 Server Stories

A few years ago my wife and I went to a comedy club in Toronto, ON for an evening that included a preshow dinner. We showed up a few minutes early and were promptly seated by the manager of the club. We knew quite early in the evening we were in for a crappy night. [...]

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Senior Gets Confused Over Steak

October 15, 2010 Diner Stories

I’ve been working at this certain restaurant for quite some time. The past Sunday afternoon I was working a lunch shift that typically lasts from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Sunday is the day that the trashiest and worst tippers come out to eat, and leave you cards with pictures of Jesus rather than tips. It was slow [...]

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Magic Al

September 26, 2010 Diner Stories

I was enjoying a fairly simple lunch at one of my favourite restaurants one afternoon when a man dressed in a cowboy suit entered the dining room. I didn’t know this at the time, but I eventually learned that this man was known in my hometown as Magic Al, and that he was an eccentric deaf man [...]

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