Jim’s 1-star review: Clearly one of the worst restaurants in the country, not because of their food or service but rather their misleading/fradulent business practices. The service at this restaurant falls below this guest’s expectations in more than one way. If a friend suggests a visit to your local Applebee’s, even if you’ve never been there before, you probably have a good idea of the décor, menu, and service, simply because, well, it’s an Applebee’s. Those baffling, disappointing, and downright bad meals often make for the most entertaining reads . Bad, bad, bad I won’t be back,” Fabi D. writes. Earlier this year, Rayner urged readers to "Forget what your mum always told you. Giles Coren (The Times) on Balthazar , London, via Twitter, 2013. The worst meals make for the most fascinating reads . Sometimes it pays to be horrid." There are so many good restaurants out there, it's not easy to find a bad one.

Luckily these critics did.

Here, for your reading pleasure, a brief sampling of the worst 1-star online reviews of the world's best restaurants (Hey, for the record, these do not reflect our personal opinions): 1.

The Best of 2018’s Bad Restaurant Reviews . But there's another type of review that's neither useful nor useless, but what they lack in helpfulness, they make up for in pure hilarity. Well, apparently only 23% of customers say they post negative reviews out of vengeance, so chances are, they are not out to get you personally.

Here are the 10 most hilariously harsh reviews from the … FEMAIL has collated some of the most outrageous reviews left for some of the top restaurants in London, Manchester and Birmingham - many of which have prompted equally funny replies from the owners. Don't let this be your restaurant. by Monica Burton Dec 19, 2018, 9:22am EST Share this story. Movie reviews can inform our tastes on what is worth watching, but they can also entertain us on their own. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". There was an issue with the bill and the manager was rude, according to this guest.

), you’ll probably have noticed that there are four main types of Yelp review: the positive review, the average review, the bad review, and the nonsense review. When it comes to dining at chain restaurants, you pretty much know what you’re going to get.

Along that line, some of the finest dining experiences I've had throughout my career have been in the small diners and dives scattered throughout the suburbs of Cleveland. The Zebra Diner in Need of New Stripes. Lesson 8: Don't Let the Stress Show. A magnifying glass. What kind of sick world would we be living in if Yelp didn't have an update function?