The FORKING Truth is that in 2018 three restaurants in Metro Phoenix AZ served me inedible food that rate 4.5 stars on Yelp. I’m not talking bad food……I’m talking INEDIBLE Food.  I didn’t mention the name of any of the restaurants. It is my hope that the restaurants have all improved after my visit. It is not in my interest to put any of these restaurants out of business ……after all….Every THING is subject to change and if they don’t or didn’t change their ways they will go under on their own…….. All of these restaurants opened this year 2018 in Metro Phoenix AZ.

The first inedible food experience of the year came from a BBQ Restaurant somewhere in Metro Phoenix.

Indedible un-cooked Grits… LOOK they are still watery and are like sand mixed with water. Unless you are blind you can clearly see that this dish is not fit to serve to people. The Forking Truth is that we let them know about the grits and nobody said they were sorry. No-one brought us a replacement and nobody took the raw grits off the bill. The person that checked on us didn’t care about what we showed her and just ran away. The brisket we tried was also about not ready to be served as it was very chewy like rubber with hard inedible fat that had to be peeled off. I keep wondering what kind of person would serve this to a paying customer?

The next one came from a Fried Fish Restaurant somewhere in Metro Phoenix in April.

The fish we received was freezer burnt and then coated in crunchy unseasoned corn meal and was fried. It was very strange to bite into something that was like crunchy and chewy dried out fish jerky. The rest of all the food we tried here all was incredibly awful too!….. beyond your imagination. Even the tarter sauce was watered down and old tasting.  The problems here might have been a result of a combination of failing restaurant equipment, re-heating foods up multiple times and very poor cooking skills. All the food after tasting went in the trash and we ate someplace else. It’s hard to believe but The Forking Truth is that this restaurant still has a 4.5 star rating on Yelp. (as of Sept. 2018)

This particular Mediterranean Restaurant also has a 4.5 star rating on Yelp. I thought the food would be very good but I found that the food really sucked the day I was there too.

All the food photographed well so you can’t tell how it taste.

Except for the pickle.

Would you eat this Forking pickle?

We threw out nearly all the food we purchased.

To make a long story as short as possible-

Falafels-Not Edible – Hard as rock garbanzos that seemed not to get cooked but got sort of burnt. The falafels were similar to a mouthful of rocks, pebbles and gritty mortar that was dry and sandy inside.

Baba Ghanoush – Not Edible – They must have dropped a whole large bottle of liquid smoke in it. This was so over-loaded with smoke flavoring I thought it was sour at first. It actually made  me scream in the restaurant when I tasted it because it was so shocking.

Pickle-Not Edible – like from an opened can from a year ago…..also very sour. (I wouldn’t try but my husband did…..he’s a very brave man…he said it’s very sour)

Steak Shawarma – Not Edible – Might have been good before it got dried out. Like chewing on a thick nautical rope.

This is not a 4.5 Star to me.

Some people make better food than other people but what kind of people serve such inedible food? ………..To me it seems like only something a child would do and not a normal person…. All kinds of people work in restaurants. I think it boils down to two kinds of people put out inedible foods. There are some people that don’t have a care on what they serve and there are also the others that don’t know how to do things better………

Three Restaurants that score a 4.5 star average on Yelp served me inedible food this year in 2018.

NOTE that EVERY THING is subject to change and your experience  may or MAY NOT differ……..

………and that’s The Forking Truth

******As a slight update The Mediterranean Restaurant contacted me. They claim that they don’t use smoke flavoring. They are sorry the falafels tasted burnt to me.******