Mike
I love a good restaurant. I’m even into some of the more experimental stuff—give me a weird foam or a deconstructed dessert and I’m all in.
But there’s a line, and that line is please just put my food on a plate. I don’t want to eat risotto out of a shoe. I don’t want my dessert balanced on a clipboard or served on a shovel. If the presentation makes it hard to eat, or worse, makes me question basic hygiene, we’ve gone too far.
These are some of the most ridiculous examples I’ve seen of restaurants trying way too hard to be “artsy,” collected from the always amazing subreddit r/WeWantPlates.
1. Charcowterie board? No thanks.
2. Fish served on some bend license plates. Yum.
3. Cool hat?
4. A cheeseball in a Monopoly boot.
5. A message in a bottle, and that message is strawberries and creme.
6. Ice cream served in a chocolate bowl that was promptly smashed on the table.
7. Chocolate cake on a broken plate. Oh, and the drink straw is uncooked pasta.
8. Ice creme in an egg carton.
9. C’mon, man. Really?
10. You know id the napkin is a shop towel with a hose clamp, you’re getting your dinner served on a hubcap.
11. Stairway to pizza jail.
12. Deviled eggs on a rusty chicken.
13. Breakfast with a side of splinters.
14. Ice cream running down your crack.
15. You can do better, girl.
16. It’s the chef who should be in chicken foot jail.
17. Burger and chips served in a lunchbox that is scolding hot.
18. We’ve got to stop making the acceptable.
19. Turn to page NO.
20. A sweaty jar of disappointment.
21. How are you supposed to get chips in there?
22. Should this into your burger hole.
23. At least the portions are exact?
24. Not very Zen, bro.
25. Asked for a plate and was given a small square of cardboard.
26. A plate, but why the woodchips?
27. The cutting board wasn’t even wood. It’s ceramic.
28. Chicken parm plopped on a cutting board.
29. The worst salad ever.
