FOOD POISONING!!!:
Today I took my fiancé out to an early diner / late lunch... In the past I've had mixed feelings about this place as it has been usually very greasy food, but today after having not been there in a year, the food that came out was kinda bad...
The fries were burnt, clearly, someone had taken the crumbs of what was left of a large premade pile of fries and re-fried them a second time, burning them into a dark brown shade that was kind of unpleasant tasting, and kind of stale and hard...
The little crumbs of fries were piled into a tiny bowl and that bowl sat on a sad little paper doily on the left side of the plate... in the center of the plate was house made pickles that tasted sort of sweet, like pickle relish but with more sugar to it... but the way it came off the brine of the pickles had a sort of acid reflux kind of flavor to it... like if you drink a lot of orange juice and then go for a run and some of it comes up from the physical work you are doing with a stomach full of orange juice, the pickles reminded me of that flavor... so not great pickling... burnt sad stale cold micro particle fries, tiny little bits about a half inch long piled into a bowl like cereal or nuts... a small portion of really bad fries... but these were not the worst part of the burger meal by far... the absolute worst part was the hamburger it's self... it was a bit shocking, I wasn't sure if I was being picky or just if it was in my head so I had to ask my fiancé to smell it too...
THE HAMBURGER MEAT WAS RAW, OBVIOUSLY PRETTY OLD, OBVIOUSLY VERY LOW QUALITY MEAT, lots of unrender fat, and it smelled like garbage, like when you open a trash can outside in the summer and that trash can had kitchen trash in it... it waste a bold trash smell but it was a faint trash smell, because the outer sides of the rare burger were cooked, the inside of the burger was not cooked... there is rare and there is raw... this was raw... and ok... I know rare can be a risky move when ordering at a restaurant... but I'm usually able to handle things just fine if they are too rare because usually restaurants don't allow their food products to rot before they serve it to you... and this is grazers, they pretty much mostly do burgers, how do they have rotten meat? I couldn't believe I was smelling rotten meat so I thought it must just be in my head...... so I ate it anyways...
Huge mistake... shortly after I got home my stomach turned and I had to run to the bathroom and I was very very sick... I will not detail the sickness but I'm positive I have food poisoning... I think I'm ok and don't need to go to the hospital but this seemed like a last straw and finally it is time to warn people about this...
My fiancé ordered a hamburger medium which thankfully came out very well done... so whatever attacked my stomach was likely burned out of her burger when it was overcooked... but her burger had an incredible unedable amount of jalapeños in it she had to take out 3/4 of... the jalapeños I tasted them, they had been allowed to age, when you age a jalapeño the oil in the seeds becomes much more spicy, what is a zesty spice flavor becomes punishing and completely eye watering and destroying your ability to taste anything else...
Our food felt like a prank... we were polite, we didn't know anyone there...
I spent 40 dollars on 2 meals that were objectively offensive... WE WILL NEVER GO BACK!
I do not want an apology, I don't want a coupon, I don't want an explanation...
People, please be careful and just don't eat there. I'm lucky enough and I have a tough stomach so it wasn't worse, but this could have been a lot worse...
This restaurant seems to mostly attract people who want to get very drunk in public while eating which is why we hadn't been back in a long time, we thought coming at 4:30 would make for a more relaxed atmosphere that would make the place enjoyable...... instead of enjoying our meal I was shocked by an alarming smell from my burger, and really disappointed by the French fries...
This place is currently the worst restaurant I know of in the area... we will never go there again... and it felt like a moral duty to report this event here and publicly warn others to avoid this place as well or if you can't avoid it, please be very careful what and how you order and examine your food carefully before attempting to ingest it...
I'm sorry to write a bad review... I don't like doing this... I hate doing this... but I felt like I had to say something... what if I said nothing and later someone else was really hurt... I just had to say something... I'm sorry... but grazers is a boozy, noisy place with incredibly bad and even unsafe food... read more