Nick DiGiovanni - I Tested 1-Star Restaurants

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

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But then, there are Yelpers. ruthless critics of them all. Check out this review from Caleb. They was closed. One star. You didn't even eat at the restaurant, Caleb. In this video, I've collected the craziest one-star Yelp reviews I can find and brought along a few friends to help me put them to the test. Dennis is a health inspector who's going undercover today, and Pete is my brother who loves food just as much as I do. We're starting here at a Chinese restaurant called Pan Asia, where Zander said, I do love Chinese food, as long as it's made by humans. But I must say, the poo-poo platter look more like a poo-poo platter. Like my dog made it, if you know what I mean. He also attached this photo. Who attaches a photo like this to a Yelp review?

Yeah, it's not good. While these guys taste the poo-poo platter to see if Xander means business, I've had Ryan Treyhan, the king of one-star reviews, help me come up with a few simple rules for this video. First, you must leave an honest five-star Yelp review at every restaurant you visit. And second, the restaurant that wows you the most must receive a trophy at the end of the video, because everybody loves trophies. Good luck, Nick.

What do we think, guys? It's not so bad visually. Honestly, the chicken's actually. charred to perfection and seasoned pretty well. It's quite tender too. I like the egg roll. Is it crunchy? Mm-hmm. From a health inspector standpoint, the food's all nice and hot. Everything is overcooked, so I would assume it's cooked through. But I really like the chicken and the fried food is extremely crunchy. The seasoning is good, the crisp is there. I think we have enough to write a review. Gotta see what my fortune is. A lifetime of culinary adventures is coming.

We've made it to Natalie's pizza. Allie says, there are only two things that happen when you you enter Natalie's. One, you get into a fight. Two, you get food poisoning. That's all. You better have your dukes up when we walk in there. I'm ready. Andrew said, there should be rules concerning how one can make a pizza. This place used canned mushrooms like they just learned how to cook. What an insult to my taste buds. Apparently, Andrew likes fresh mushrooms. As you can see, they don't just serve pizza. They also have hot weaners. And Theo said, I ordered a hot weiner and it was a Walmart weiner. What's a Walmart weiner? I'm assuming he means they just bought it at Walmart. Yeah, I don't know. This is cool. Hello.

Thank you. How about here? Let's eat some pizza. Wow. Hacelink picture perfect. Looks really good. It gives me almost like throwback vibes from like the school cafeteria too. Let's see.

Same thing. It's like perfectly round. You're gonna get in a fight with Dennis hitting him with the box like that. Here's the fight we're talking about right there. It's a great slice. It's hot. It's greasy but not too greasy. There's nothing dripping off my pizza.

I would have like this cooked a little bit more, but I like the crust. There's plenty of cheese. It doesn't look like any sort of canned sausage, can pepperoni. This looks like a legit. piece of pepperoni right here. It's a damn good pizza. I'm actually gonna dive into the we need to see whether or not they're Walmart winners.

You know, a hot dog is not supposed to be aesthetically pleasing also, right? I mean, you're not gonna open a hot dog and think, wow, that's the most beautiful looking hot dog I've ever seen in my life. It's all about the taste. For me, it's the snap. I like the snap. The snap.

I'm actually going to pull out the dog to see if I think it's a Walmart weiner. How would you know? I looked at a photo of the weeners they serve at Walmart. This doesn't look as dark in color as those ones. It is almost a neon orange. So I'm actually going to go ahead and say, I don't think it's a Walmart wiener.

We're pretty hot on the pizza. The wieners, it's not great. It's not bad. Wouldn't start a fight over it. I think we have enough to leave a review. We are now pulling up to Long John Silvers, a one-star fast food restaurant. Long John Silver.

This restaurant's a two-for-one. I call it a two-for. You got Long John Silvers and you got Taco Bell. One of the biggest news sources in the world literally called it the worst meal in America. I didn't even know they were still open. Bill from Texas said, I stopped going to the store for a year because asking for extra tartar sauce was like pulling teeth.

Today I stopped by again and told them I needed 12 tartar sauces. When I got home, only half the sauces I asked for were in the bag. Who needs 12 tartar sauce? No kidding. Another review came from Phil, who looks a lot like a fisherman himself. Yeah, he could be on look at tuna. I would buy fisherman. He said the fries were so overcooked and tough that not even his tears could soften them.

The best part about the meal was literally the green beans. What fast food place has green beans? We're ordering some. Oh, why are we? Lauren said, I have been sitting in the drive-thru behind two cars for nearly 30 minutes. 30 minutes? We've got to see if the fast food line takes 30 minutes.

Let's do it. Thank you for coming to come. Yes, hi. Is Long John Silver is open? Yes, but I need five minutes, five minutes. What are they catching the fish? What is, what's up with this? Okay, how will we know when it's open?

No, it's open right now. It's open, it's open. Oh, we can order. You're just going to make it. Yeah, I can order them, but you need a way. Can I please do just one regular plate of fried fish? Yes, please. Just water, please.

I know how about it water. I'll try Baja Blast. Okay, any else? Do you have green beans? No. How are you? Thank you. Oh, can we have 12 tartar sauce please?

Sure. Yeah? We'll park right there. Thank you so much. He was so nice. You never like to be in a fast food drive-through and you're waiting. But if they really are making it fresh, I'll be happy.

In my experience as a health inspector, chain restaurants are usually the cleanest because they have levels of management that oversee that. It's been almost four and a half minutes. Still no sign of our food. It's not really fast food if you think about it. Well, oh, oh, Dennis, you want to grab it?

Is this, is this high? It says Taco Bell, though. Elephant in the room here, it came in a Taco Bell back. Luckily, inside the bag, it is Long John Silver's. Open up and say, oh, yeah. Yeah. Aw yeah. Oh yeah.

First, let's count the tartar sauces. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Twelve. Looks like we got some shrimp. That is you, Pete. Then we got this giant box of stuff, which is mine. Dennis, you did not get anything. They did not put Dennis's food.

Might be a blessing. But I must say, this actually looks really good. this piece of crispy golden fish right here is kind of remarkable Dennis we can share the tartar sauce does look like mayonnaise actually it's pretty good wow I think that might have been one of the best bites of fishing chips I've ever had I think he was being honest about cooking it fresh the fish on the inside it's buttery flaky yeah is that one also are thank you check out what's in that what is going on I have no idea you can't make this up that's not our food oh no we've made it to a a buffet restaurant, fire and ice.

Janazia said, we were paying our bill, and we saw a mouse run under one of the black cabinets. One of the waiters joked around saying Rattitoui. The manager offered us a voucher. We do not want to come back. I would be mad about a mouse if they hadn't said Rattitoui. You remember what happened to the health inspector in Rattitoui? I don't. Didn't end well.

Another review came from Miss Review. She wrote a very long, free verse poem that I'm going to let you read on your own time. It's well written. And the last review comes from John, who's an elite Yelper. John has way too much time. Just saying. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Exclamation point.

I feel like we shouldn't be going here. I like it here. You go here? I do. My wife and I come here every year on my birthday. He really doesn't like it, but I do. Have you ever read the reviews? I don't really care.

Let's go inside. So here's how this restaurant works. All the food is raw in a buffet. So we grab the food, then we bring into this big giant ring of fire in the middle where they cook it right in front of you. And then you get this nice, hot, fresh food. So it starts on ice. and it ends with fire. Hence the name fire and ice.

All right, one bowl per trick. I'm going to go a little fried rice, baby corn, a few pieces of zucchini, a little bit of marinated chicken, and I got to top it off with a full glizzy. And we'll have to see what they do with this. Oh, there you go. Wow.

I love this place. They may get the trophy. Thank you. You can do whatever you want. Molly's coming. I've been looking around on the floor, and I have not seen any ratatouis yet. No have I.

Which is a good sign. And I haven't seen any evidence of that. Your food. Thank you. I'll see you guys at the table. Thank you so much. Ooh, that looks great. They chopped up Mike Lizzie.

Did he just start eating without us? Honestly, this stuff all looks pretty amazing. That's very good. I keep having flashbacks about the guy saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What's not to like? I don't get it. I got everything I could want here.

I got a hot dog, I got mini corn. This is trophy contender. I agree. You love this place. I can't stop eating. So will you be back next birthday? My wife hates it. My birthday, though.

I'm back to my childhood days at Dave and Busters. What's G says? Crap Food. Gordon Ramsey couldn't save this kitchen. So go have some drinks and laughs with your crew. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, then go eat someplace else. I feel like this is gonna ruin all of our childhood memories.

Well then Gary said, food, absolutely hated it. I ordered a burger, it was so salty, it cut my tongue, and I had blood on my bun. End of story. So obviously we need to order a burger. And this last review said, I had to wash my hands multiple times because I was sticking to everything. Think I'm joking? My kids thought it was a game and would count to see how many things they could stick together.

Table, menu, silverware, and plates. I hate a sticky restaurant table. Yeah. Before we go in, one of the funniest things I saw in all of Yelp didn't come from the reviewers. It actually came from the restaurant. Dave and Busters replied to a bunch of things saying, We're sorry your food was anything other than fire. Love that energy.

Dennis, do you know what fire is? I do. What is it? It's the best. Riz? No, I don't know Riz. You do have the Riz though. Okay.

Hope it's good. Dennis, you've never been here even. No. Oh, did you guys hear the stickiness just now? That review might carry some weight. Look at the photos on the menu, though. They look really, really good. What is that about?

That's s'mores cheesecake. Should we get it? More cheesecake? We'll do one mozzarella sticks because you can't nod it, Dave and Buster, I feel. One burger just to share. What is the grape chill? It's kind of like a slushy.

What do you? 12? I'd like a grape chill, please. Let's do the pretzel sticks, and we'll call it a day there. Before we sat down to eat, we obviously had to play a few arcade games and try to win some prizes. The lowest rank? I'm sorry to do this, guys. I have to do it right away. Mottorella stick. Pull it.

Okay, baby. This is choking. Peace drink came with a temperature color changing straw. When you touch it, it changes colors. Of course it does. I kind of want to try one of these breadsticks. these breadsticks. One thing I'm immediately noticing is there's a bit of a film over the cheese. It means it's been sitting there for a tiny bit, but let's not judge a book by its cover here.

The cheese sauce is more complex than a normal cheese sauce. That's actually really good. That is a mean looking burger. Huge bite. That's really good. The seasoning on these fries reminds me the seasoning on Cool Ranch Doritos. It's very well done. It's evenly dispersed. You can see it. You can taste it. I like it. Looks like a perfectly golden brown melted marshmallow. Oh, yeah. Yeah? Coming into this place with the reviews, I legitimately thought it was going to be one of the worst places we ate at this video. But I think this is in contention for the trophy. Let's leave the review.

Waits. We are now at Viva, Mexico Cantina and Grill. But first, our review from Kaley. She said, food was amazing will absolutely return. Just kidding, they stole money for me, literally never going back. What? That took a twist. Destiny said, in all caps, saw a dog that was very evidently not a service animal,

walk in and out of the kitchen, clearly in kitchen for extended periods of time. Dennis, what do you think about that from a health inspector? No, no, no, no. You can't have animals where food is being prepped. Would that be a failure? Violation of the health code. What would the punishment for that be? Obviously, you have to eliminate the dog.

Kill the dog? Not kill the dog. Remove the dog. Well, unfortunately, another review came from Crystal who said, Chips undercooked and no one seemed to care. While waiting for the food, we're going to look for the dog. Ola! What's that?

I thought it said men's room this way. Clear. No dogs? No dogs. That's good news. way someone said something about the chips. Oh, that's a crime. It's a perfectly good chip. I think it's a great chip. Salty, well-seasoned. They got some salsa. It's a great chip. So far so good. Okay, let's dive it. Chinks. Dennis, have you had street corn before? I don't know what that is. One of my favorite Mexican foods ever. Oh, that is good. I love the look of it. The color is really nice. The corn is cooked really, really well. For me, there's just too much sauce on top and nothing on the bottom. Dennis, do you like tacos? I don't. Do you like cassidias? I don't know.

You've never had a cassidia. Is that odd? That is odd. Talk in the comments. Is that weird that he hasn't had a cassidia? It's not bad. Pete, you try the burritos. I will try the tacos.

It looks pretty well rounded. You got meat, you got guac, I think, rice, a bunch of different spices. I'd say pretty solid burrito. So for the tacos, what I like is immediately I see on the meat. There's that nice golden crust. They've gotten a perfect char on this beef. So I know the flavor's gonna be there.

These are corn tortillas, which is classic. I like that they double wrap it. Probably my favorite thing here actually. It's a little bit spicy, but it's well-rounded. It's a very good taco. I think the only complaints I really have about this place are that it's a little pricey. Maybe you pay for the experience.

Come in, pet the dog, have some good food. There's no dog. Then what are we paying for? We traveled a long way for this place. It's called the melting pot. It's a fondue restaurant. And Ginny's review says, fondue?

More like fond don't. This place smells like a porta potty. Prices are a highway robbery. Pound cake felt like a temperatechetic mattress. Extreme suss vibes. If you go there, take lots of complimentary mints. Don't know what to make of that.

KC also said, I regret to inform you that our experience at melting pot was nothing short of a disaster. Our weight stretched to an excruciating four hours, during which our server proved to be inexperienced and inattentive. We'll see about that, Casey. We were seated immediately. Not a four hour wait, a four minute wait. So, Casey, you were wrong. Sorry. The questions that remain are whether the pound cake feels like a temperatechetic mattress.

I have a temperedic mattress. Is it a nice mattress? Very nice. We still need to figure out if there are extreme sus vibes. Personally, I'm not feeling that yet. And when we leave, we need to try to find the complementary mints. We're gonna do one cheese fondue.

It comes with tons and tons of different sides. And then we're gonna do a chocolate fondue. Hopefully, it actually comes out with the yin and yang looking like this, because that's really cool. Who doesn't like chocolate and cheese? Our waitress made our cheese fondue from scratch using Rold Griehre, Reclat and Fontina.

And the chocolate fondue looked exactly as advertised. Wow, this is sweet. We got the spread. Fondue, chocolate. How great is this? There's all sorts of amazing looking sides. There's no limit. to what you can do.

I'm starting on the cheese. Here we go. Look at the cheese pole. It's delicious. I feel like I'm in Switzerland. I lived in Switzerland, and that's a good fondue. I feel like we're on top of a mountain. We're all wearing crackers, and we're eating fondue together.

So far, one of my only real complaints about this place is that it could get really messy. Like, look at that. Definitely. So, Dennis, before you dive into the dessert, does this seem like temperate? Well, the beauty is that it's soft, but it's firm so it doesn't fall apart. I don't get a mattress vibe out of it. First dip into the chocolate. Oh, you messed up the pattern.

But it looks so good. The cheese fondue was amazing. What about the chocolate? I confirmed it's one of the best pieces of pound take that I've ever had. Not a temperapeutic mantis. This is what I think of the melting pot. Very nice.

Do you guys have like complimentary mince? Unfortunately, don't. I don't know if we have some in the back. I can definitely go double check for you. All right, that'd be cool. Oh, you're right a mince. We came back for the best restaurant that wowed us in this.

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