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Username: Long_in_the_tooth
Post Number: 149
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:34 pm: |    |
So... I just had a horrible meal....
I mean a really bad...bad...bad, RANCID STEAK!
It smelled like an old wet dog.
It should never have left the kitchen.
But...
It now seems that proper D'YES protocol is to
first address my server... then ask for a manager
to bring attention to my "dilemma"... give them a second chance.... and draw no hasty conclusions as to there regular quality.
yeah right.
been there... done that...no avail.
Baile Corcaigh Sucks.
I have tried time and time again...
I am sympathetic to the current health of the owner...
I appreciate the work and passion given to the decor...butt, I am pissing out of mine.
There. Lowell...stop me now if you are concerned.
p.s.
Be forewarned.. as I have just about had enough with a hole bunch of people in this town and have
plenty of matches to light the bridges on my way out.
Let the games begin. |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 2711
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:38 pm: | |
Well, if the food was that bad, who can blame you for being grumpy? But what happened when you took it up with the staff there?
PS, we have not had a bad meal there, and the service has been great.
(Message edited by gazhekwe on November 14, 2008) |
Thecarl
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Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 1421
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:39 pm: | |
oh. don't ever order the "irish famine" steak. they're authentic to the scarcity of meat and refrigeration of the time. |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 220
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:45 pm: | |
Unless the waitresses there are profiling the Irish saying "Erin Go Bra-less", tell the place to kiss your arse and go down the street to White Castle's on Michigan and Rosa Parks. Pimp-Steaks to the People! |
Lodgedodger
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Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 896
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:55 pm: | |
Sorry Long, wouldn't have happened had you tried "meatless".
Seriously, if the food sucks once, don't go back. |
Bike4beer
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Username: Bike4beer
Post Number: 43
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:58 pm: | |
I have never had a bad meal there either except the time that I ordered Shepherd's Pie and they waited till the food came out to tell me that they ran out of mashed potatoes. So basically I had a bowl of meat. They made it up to me with a pint of beer.
How an Irish place runs out of potatoes is beyond me |
Mortgageking
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Username: Mortgageking
Post Number: 254
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:48 am: | |
That's why I'm not much of a "steak guy" anymore. |
Mortgageking
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Username: Mortgageking
Post Number: 255
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 1:49 am: | |
I'm more of a "triple steak guy." |
Wazootyman
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Username: Wazootyman
Post Number: 405
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 8:30 am: | |
Thanks to this review I will never go to the Baile Corcaigh or any restaurant in Detroit again. In fact, I think I'll leave town too!
Thanks Long_in_the_tooth for providing an important public service.
(Message edited by wazootyman on November 15, 2008) |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 1685
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 9:27 am: | |
Ordering steaks at a restaurant that isn't a Ruth's Chris or better steak restaurant invites disaster.
Not that I'm smarter, I'm just sayin' |
Cman710
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Username: Cman710
Post Number: 528
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 10:50 am: | |
Kathinozarks, I tend to agree. It's rare to find a decent steak at a non-expensive place. |
Rickinatlanta
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Username: Rickinatlanta
Post Number: 204
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
Good example is this weeks Kitchen Nightmares where the owner of the Italian Restaurant listed his NY Strips as Black Angus on the menu but told Ramsey that they were actually Choice to save money. |
Kathinozarks
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Username: Kathinozarks
Post Number: 1688
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 11:27 am: | |
ha ha Cman, you made a pun! |
Jonnyfive
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Username: Jonnyfive
Post Number: 142
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 3:08 pm: | |
"How an Irish place runs out of potatoes is beyond me"
That's when it becomes appropriate to start making potato famine jokes... |
Digitalvision
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Username: Digitalvision
Post Number: 1445
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 6:16 pm: | |
If one is going to go cheap on steak, cook it yourself. You'll probably be better off, if you know what you're doing. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 5153
Registered: 09-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 7:16 pm: | |
I haven't been to Baile Corcaigh in several months, but the times I have dined there I found the food and service very good. The last time there was an excellent Irish band and everybody was having a blast.
LITT, here's my take on posting restaurant experiences. When anyone posts an experience, it is anecdotal. It is one person's story and unsubstantiated. [BTW I do not doubt your particular post; from the quality your past posts on this forum, I believe you. I am just stating what all posts logically are.]
In the first responses to the thread starter positive posts have a tendency to elicit positive reviews. Negative reviews tend to draw negative responses. Then a balance of both views evolves and sometimes the first post is out-voted. It doesn't mean your experiences were not bad; maybe it was the luck of your draw that you were the one person in a thousand who hit them on their only bad days.
Our main concern is that someone might be using the forum, and its very large Detroit-focused audience, for some commercial or personal end – like a competitor.
Yeah, we lean toward the ‘speak no evil of Detroit’ side [except in cases of undeniable evil]. And why not, everybody kicks us; we don’t need us kicking us. |
Flyingj
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Username: Flyingj
Post Number: 357
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 8:48 pm: | |
Kathinozarks Ordering steaks at a restaurant that isn't a Ruth's Chris or better steak restaurant invites disaster.
Ruth's Chris is good, an old friend of my sister-in-law is married to the heir.
/why does the Cheesecake Factory show no love? |
Softailrider
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Username: Softailrider
Post Number: 227
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 9:45 pm: | |
I think Outback , Longhorn and even Texas Roadhouse have really good steaks . I think Ruth's Chris is fine if you're on an expense account. Otherwise , kind of overpriced . |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2903
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 11:26 pm: | |
"It smelled like an old wet dog."
And yet, you ate it.
Let's start over. You are blaming who, for what, now? |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3876
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
Softailrider hit it with Outback, I think. Never had a bad steak there. The worst I ever had was at a Black Angus. It, too, was an old, wet dog. |
Swingline
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Username: Swingline
Post Number: 1222
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 1:15 pm: | |
Don't really understand L-i-t-t's first post. Is he saying that he goes to Baile C. often and every time the meal is bad? Did he say something to management this last time and was told to f**k off? Has he ever said anything to management? Why is this post so passionately negative? If a complaint was made and management didn't make it right, then blast away. But what exactly happened here?
Also, for those not in the know, what is wrong with the owner's health? |