Danger! Danger! Worst Dining Experience EVER

Who’s running The Pavillion these days?

I went there yesterday with my girlfriend to have a late lunch/early dinner. We ordered their nachos, cheese sticks and sausage mash and gravy.

When the nachos arrived, they looked disgusting. There was a toxic mess on top of oil-soaked nachos. The guacamole was grey and there was some red sauce coating everything. It looked like someone went behind a hotpot restaurant and stole whatever is thrown out at the end of the day and poured in on oily nacho chips!

Being fairly regular customers for years, we thought something was wrong, so we asked if there’d been a change in the kitchen. Our waitress side-stepped the question, but finally admitted that they had a new chef.

We politely told her we did not want their nachos.

Next came their cheese sticks which were oilier than the nachos and were oozing cheese despite not looking cooked. The cheese sticks I’m used to eating and used to be served at The Pavillion and other reputable establishments are golden brown and firm. These cheese sticks were yellow, deflated, soggy, leaky excuses for cheese sticks.

Disgusted and disappointed, I asked the waitress to take the cheese sticks away and to stop the rest of our order. I told my girlfriend I wanted to leave.

She agreed, so I told the waitress we would be leaving and didn’t want anything we ordered.

Their manager, with stitches over his right eye, physically blocked the door and insisted that we pay for what we ordered. I refused and asked him to call the owner, who I supposed would be just as disappointed as I was at the food that I was served.

The “manager” refused to call the owner, insisting he called the shots in The Pavillion. Instead, he said he was going to call the police.

Deciding that this was ridiculous and not wanting to waste my afternoon waiting for and talking with Chinese police, I asked him again to let us leave.

He refused, so I pushed him aside and forced my way out.

Unfortunately, I turned around to see that this “manager” grabbed my girlfriend as a hostage! He pushed her into a small room next to the entrance and was holding her hostage!

Seeing this made me furious. I had to physically pull him away from the front of the room and my girlfriend. I told her to run and she got out of The Pavillion.

Now, this “manager” was all over me trying to keep me in the restaurant and calling for reinforcement.

I made it out the door, with him dragging on me like an anchor, in time for his posse to jump me!

To make a longer story short, I finally broke free from everybody, joined my girlfriend and we went to a more civilized place to eat.

If I could, I'd give no stars for The Pavillion.