Worst Eateries Of Pattaya, Please Add To The List....

[spike]

Tips....I gagged on a bowl of chicken noodle soup in there one night. Got about half way through and started up-chucking...had to make a quick exit.

The Sportsman...Soi 13....this place has gone downhill bigtime. Got the braised beef recently and needed a hack saw to cut through it and the jaws-of-life to chew it. If you go to the "Carvery" on Sunday night....you had better get there early as the meat dries out quickly under those heat lamps and the vegetables looked sunburnt.

[sweetchariot]

Tips....I gagged on a bowl of chicken noodle soup in there one night. Got about half way through and started up-chucking...had to make a quick exit.

The Sportsman...Soi 13....this place has gone downhill bigtime. Got the braised beef recently and needed a hack saw to cut through it and the jaws-of-life to chew it. If you go to the "Carvery" on Sunday night....you had better get there early as the meat dries out quickly under those heat lamps and the vegetables looked sunburnt.

Probably because it starts at lunchtime - 12 o'clock I think. I tried it one lunchtime about a month ago, and it was probably the best roat dinner I have had in Pattaya, apart from the ones I make at home .

I am not sure, but if they have a quiet day and you go in the evening, I guess you could be eating food thats been under those lamps for 8 hours or more.

[paul1970]

Tips....I gagged on a bowl of chicken noodle soup in there one night. Got about half way through and started up-chucking...had to make a quick exit.

The Sportsman...Soi 13....this place has gone downhill bigtime. Got the braised beef recently and needed a hack saw to cut through it and the jaws-of-life to chew it. If you go to the "Carvery" on Sunday night....you had better get there early as the meat dries out quickly under those heat lamps and the vegetables looked sunburnt.

Probably because it starts at lunchtime - 12 o'clock I think. I tried it one lunchtime about a month ago, and it was probably the best roat dinner I have had in Pattaya, apart from the ones I make at home .

I am not sure, but if they have a quiet day and you go in the evening, I guess you could be eating food thats been under those lamps for 8 hours or more.

I must agree, the carvery at sportsmans is the best roast dinner I've had in Thailand and that includes all the ones I ate while I was living in BKK, tried most.

Everything is kept nice and hot while a lot of the carvery's the food is almost cold, common sense would tell you that as it starts at lunch time that you have a much better chance of having better quality while evrything is still fresh. It beggars beleive when people go to a carvery or buffet hours after it starts and starts slagging of the quality of the food cos it's been hanging around for hours....duh.

The only gripe I have with sportsmans is that they use frozen chips, so if I want something with chips I would normally go to caddyshack.

[chanman]

Tips....I gagged on a bowl of chicken noodle soup in there one night. Got about half way through and started up-chucking...had to make a quick exit.

The Sportsman...Soi 13....this place has gone downhill bigtime. Got the braised beef recently and needed a hack saw to cut through it and the jaws-of-life to chew it. If you go to the "Carvery" on Sunday night....you had better get there early as the meat dries out quickly under those heat lamps and the vegetables looked sunburnt.

Probably because it starts at lunchtime - 12 o'clock I think. I tried it one lunchtime about a month ago, and it was probably the best roat dinner I have had in Pattaya, apart from the ones I make at home .

I am not sure, but if they have a quiet day and you go in the evening, I guess you could be eating food thats been under those lamps for 8 hours or more.

I must agree, the carvery at sportsmans is the best roast dinner I've had in Thailand and that includes all the ones I ate while I was living in BKK, tried most.

Everything is kept nice and hot while a lot of the carvery's the food is almost cold, common sense would tell you that as it starts at lunch time that you have a much better chance of having better quality while evrything is still fresh. It beggars beleive when people go to a carvery or buffet hours after it starts and starts slagging of the quality of the food cos it's been hanging around for hours....duh.

The only gripe I have with sportsmans is that they use frozen chips, so if I want something with chips I would normally go to caddyshack.

Its gone down hill massively in the past 12 months, though meat, uncooked vegetables.. lot better choices around these days other than the sportsman.. pull your finger out dave and steve it used to be great

[rott]

What is going on here...all i see is whining poms...well i guess the restaurant owners are sorry you cannot have roast beaf & yorkshire pudding for Baht99 . It just cannot happen. As far as the pizza slices... come on .. where did you all grow up..uyou wanta good slice of pizza then buy it from a restaurant that specialises in pizzas. You cheap charlies make me laugh !!

Another supercilious git who thinks saying ''whining poms'' makes him cool. (If you go on a thread about worst eateries and complain about seeing complaints aren't you a whiner too?)

Also most comments seemed to be about quality rather than cost.

And a place that specialises in pizzas, well wouldn't Slices Pizza (source of most of the complaints) fit the bill?

[rott]

Can't believe all the negative comments about The Ritz, I've been eating there for years and I've had consistently good quality on both English and Thai food, very large portions, and all at reasonable prices for an aircon place.

No I'm not Rob.

[tropo]

Can't believe all the negative comments about The Ritz, I've been eating there for years and I've had consistently good quality on both English and Thai food, very large portions, and all at reasonable prices for an aircon place.

No I'm not Rob.

I ordered beef stew at The Ritz once. I ended up with a tasteless broth with tough chunks of meat thrown in. I never went back to try again..

[sweetchariot]

Can't believe all the negative comments about The Ritz, I've been eating there for years and I've had consistently good quality on both English and Thai food, very large portions, and all at reasonable prices for an aircon place.

No I'm not Rob.

I ordered beef stew at The Ritz once. I ended up with a tasteless broth with tough chunks of meat thrown in. I never went back to try again..

Had a brekkie in there once - the sausage was still cold in the middle. Never again!

[mikethevigoman]

Pan Pan = the worst lasgne in the world.

That place is a stones throw from where i live and ive tried to like it but find the food bland and overpriced, i will say i dont know my way around the italian menu but ive messed up everytime now, so its Jits for the main course and into PP for a desert on the way home Edited February 15, 2008 by mikethevigoman

[mikethevigoman]

Thanks for backing up what i said earlier, thats exactly how we find it, as for the guy said that portions are small i can only assume hes an american and rides a harley !

There's no need to insult someone when they don't agree with you.

I'm the guy who said that the portions are AVERAGE to small. I already explained that I'm an average eater.

My GF weighs a massive 38kg and she has no problems getting through any of their meals. If you think the meals at JITS are big, then you must the size of a shrimp, or have an eating disorder.

Wrong on both accounts old boy, 92 kilos and eat like a horse !,. well have to agree to disagree im afraid, and i wasnt insulting you, its an english thing, called a sense of humour !

[norrona]

Pan Pan = the worst lasgne in the world.

That place is a stones throw from where i live and ive tried to like it but find the food bland and overpriced, i will say i dont know my way around the italian menu but ive messed up everytime now, so its Jits for the main course and into PP for a desert on the way home

try the spaghetti amatriciana, spaghetti with tomato sauce, bacon, onion....

unless it has changed owners I am confused as when I had an office up the road I was a regular in there and never had a bad meal?

the cake selection in there was good as well as the pizzas....

each to their own on the lasagne opinions i suppose, I seem to remember it being nice when I went there???

Haven't been there for ages but it used to be very good

[paul1970]

Tonight after a few beers I fancied a big steak and just happened to be by the Big Horn Steakhouse and Beefeaters. Well being British and I'm sure fellow Brits would understand that there is a chain of "Steakhouses" in the UK called Beefeater and they are total crap and even though the Beefeater in Pattaya has no connection the thought that someone who may be a Brit would call his steakhouse Beefeater was enough to put me off.

So that was it mind made up Big Horn it was to be.....should be renamed Big Mistake.

I want a nice big juicy steak so I ordered a 400g Tenderloin, so what turns up on the plate 2 X 200g steaks <deleted>, if a place advertises big steaks you would expect then to be able to supply a single big steak, anyway I though OK as long as they taste OK I will be fine. Well when I bit into one I might as well have been eating chicken or pork or fish as I wouldn't have known any difference. The dam_n things had been cooked without any hint of seasoning whatsoever resulting in juicy cardboard and even worse OK I could drown them in salt if I wanted to but no pepper mill again one has to say <deleted> they said have white pepper on the table, oh thanks I really want to drown a 700B steak in white pepper.

It is totally inexcusable for any resteraunt cheap or dear that makes a steak of any description to cook it without any seasoning.

So if there are any steak lovers out there stay away from this place, even my thai girlfriend who tried a piece said no taste and she now cooks better steaks than thas after just watching me do a steak at home once, easiest thing in the world is to cook a nice steak as ,ong as you get a good cut.

[Jingthing]

That cracks me up. Order a 400 gram steak and get two 200 gram ones. The fact that they didn't tell you that when they took the order is almost good enough for the PATTAYA DODO BIRD BAD BUSINESS BEHAVIOR AWARDS.

The mouth experience difference between a big vs a small steak is real. Thanks for the warning!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...p;#entry1817373

Edited February 15, 2008 by Jingthing

[plasticpig]

Rib Company Jomtien, was good now expensive crap.

[barryofthailand]

Tonight after a few beers I fancied a big steak and just happened to be by the Big Horn Steakhouse and Beefeaters. Well being British and I'm sure fellow Brits would understand that there is a chain of "Steakhouses" in the UK called Beefeater and they are total crap and even though the Beefeater in Pattaya has no connection the thought that someone who may be a Brit would call his steakhouse Beefeater was enough to put me off.

So that was it mind made up Big Horn it was to be.....should be renamed Big Mistake.

I want a nice big juicy steak so I ordered a 400g Tenderloin, so what turns up on the plate 2 X 200g steaks <deleted>, if a place advertises big steaks you would expect then to be able to supply a single big steak, anyway I though OK as long as they taste OK I will be fine. Well when I bit into one I might as well have been eating chicken or pork or fish as I wouldn't have known any difference. The dam_n things had been cooked without any hint of seasoning whatsoever resulting in juicy cardboard and even worse OK I could drown them in salt if I wanted to but no pepper mill again one has to say <deleted> they said have white pepper on the table, oh thanks I really want to drown a 700B steak in white pepper.

It is totally inexcusable for any resteraunt cheap or dear that makes a steak of any description to cook it without any seasoning.

So if there are any steak lovers out there stay away from this place, even my thai girlfriend who tried a piece said no taste and she now cooks better steaks than thas after just watching me do a steak at home once, easiest thing in the world is to cook a nice steak as ,ong as you get a good cut.

You should have gone to Beafeaters. Excellent food.

Barry

[tropo]

Wrong on both accounts old boy, 92 kilos and eat like a horse !,. well have to agree to disagree im afraid, and i wasnt insulting you, its an english thing, called a sense of humour !

Ok, now I understand, it's "an English thing".

I'll let you into a little secret. Sense of humour varies from country to country. Careful how you use it.

[stevemiddie]

Wrong on both accounts old boy, 92 kilos and eat like a horse !,. well have to agree to disagree im afraid, and i wasnt insulting you, its an english thing, called a sense of humour !

Ok, now I understand, it's "an English thing".

I'll let you into a little secret. Sense of humour varies from country to country. Careful how you use it.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

[anaorak]

Good food - often spoilt by the fact that purifiers are not used, water straight from the tap, result - food poisoning or worse.

Some places are good on one or two visits. Then the chef has a day off, food left out in the heat so when you visit it you have bad luck - food poisoning.

Do not finish any food that does not taste right.

El Torro is currently winning for best steak. Matahari was the best in second road, but it has moved. I went to the Long Horn, not good.

No one has mentioned the pub in Soi Beekow - Butcher's arms - had the currie in there, very good.

For Pizzas, "The Stone" on beach road is quite good, and entertaining too.

Anyone recomend anywhere else for steaks?

[plasticpig]

name='anaorak' date='2008-02-18 03:20:46' post='1824410']

El Torro is currently winning for best steak. Matahari was the best in second road, but it has moved. I went to the Long Horn, not good.

Anyone recomend anywhere else for steaks?

its in Jomtien now, its better than when on second road. the steak is good