The 50 Worst Restaurants In The World

The U.K.'s Restaurant magazine announced their annual San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant rankings on Monday, to much online fanfare, grumbling, and intrigue. Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, earned the #1 spot, and Chicago's Alinea restaurant from Chef Grant Achatz was at #7, and the top U.S. restaurant overall.

Giving the 50 best rankings the levity they deserve, the staff of the Chicago Tribune's The Stew blog compiled their own list: The 50 Worst Restaurants In The World.

Read the whole list, as it is all wonderful and hysterical.

Some of our favorites:

3. Friday's based on the novel Push by Sapphire

11. Grant Achatz Presents: Flavored Sound

21. Actual Panda Express

26. Senor Bayless' House O' Chalupas

37. Detlef Shrimp

35. Chicken N Waffles N Bulgur

34. Five-Second Rule Taco

Check out the whole list here.

Comments

[elcerritan]

05:05 AM on 05/03/2010

Was this story written by a nine-year-old? (Sorry; I guess that's insulting to nine-year-olds.)

There needs to be a new "What's your reaction" button - one that says "Piece o' crap".

[Etong]

04:44 PM on 04/30/2010

Weird, haven't heard of any of these!

[KIVPossum]

05:45 AM on 04/30/2010

Not worthy to be on the comedy page, much less the food section

[flowerofhighrank]

01:57 PM on 04/29/2010

without including 'House Of Tang' in Vermont, this list is woefully incomplete. I actually spit the food out into my napkin TWICE. Shame on me for taking a second bite of another dish.
Locally, Gladstone's for Fish in Malibu is almost gleeful about how many sea creatures it can ruin in one meal.

[JScott]

11:28 AM on 04/29/2010

Where's Jollibee
It's claim to fame 'Juicy Yumburger' and 'Crispy Chicken Joy'

AKA

Bad Fried Chicken and Canned Chef Boy Ar Dee Spagetti

And this is supposedly a Filipino Food restaurant.

[JScott]

11:25 AM on 04/29/2010

Where's the Roadkill Cafe?

[sonoffestus]

02:49 PM on 04/29/2010

If you are talking about the Roadkill Cafe in Greenville ,VT, I believe it went out of business. We got stuck holding bag when they went bankrupt and stiffed us for a few thousand dollars. Apparently, they should be on the list.

[sonoffestus]

05:18 PM on 04/29/2010

oophs...Greenville,ME.

[JScott]

10:59 AM on 04/30/2010

You mean there was real ones?

[Cogs]

10:53 AM on 04/29/2010

When I complained to a waitress that our pizza was burnt she spoke to the manager and returned to offer our table a 50% discount. "No Thanks!" and we walked out the door. That restaurant is still in business.

[MsCuda]

10:02 AM on 04/29/2010

My fave :# 20. Fraulein Sauerkraut’s Thwap and Serve

[cedy]

01:36 AM on 04/29/2010

hacker barrel, hilarious

[Truth Has A Liberal Bias]

12:36 AM on 04/29/2010

I fail to see the funny in this.

[Asmodean1]

12:22 AM on 04/29/2010

this story is rated

1# waste of my F@!&%#G TIME.

was there a point to this story???????????
please someone tell me.

[pokerpot]

11:23 PM on 04/28/2010

Total waste of time. I want my 5 seconds back!

[blacksmithn]

10:49 PM on 04/28/2010

A remarkably humorless humor piece.

[liarsclub75]

10:11 PM on 04/28/2010

Not a real list. Not even funny.

[naschkatze]

09:41 PM on 04/28/2010

If I were making up a list of the 50 worst newspapers in the world, The Chicago Tribune would be up there at the top.

[MXMRJ]

11:06 PM on 04/28/2010

This is way funnier than anything in that "list".

[TooLooze]

09:02 AM on 04/29/2010

I wonder which HuffPo genius chose this article to post. I also wonder why they are using this new "rating" system for posters.

[Halsey]

12:52 PM on 04/29/2010

toolooze..but YOU get your posts in purple...AND have linked HP to facebook AND have 1341 comments...(did you want all this to get out?...like..did you sign a permission slip?
and..you look great on that sofa...surrounded by PURPLE....cheers?