AIBU to think that if you order Chicken, Bacon and Avocado salad...

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It should have some flipping avocado in it? Even a tiny bit?

Just been out for dinner at that Chiquitos Mexican chain place (Shit-eatos it should be called, all restaurants of this ilk are not my choice ever but the DC wanted to go there and we were in a hurry) and I ordered the chicken, bacon and avocado salad and it turned up with no avocado.

Apprently the kitchen had run out even though it's a Mexican theme chain and they must have gallons guacamole for the fajitas and they never thought to offer me any of that instead so they just decided without consulting me that they'd serve my 3 MAIN NAMED INGREDIENT salad without one of the main ingredients.

I really hate it when restaurants do this. It happens to me a lot. I recently ate somewhere where the halloumi salad that arrived in front of me was doused in a warm spicy tomato sauce (not mentioned in the description at all on the menu at all) buy totally minus the rocket salad it should have come with, as per the description.

It's not on. It's not. AIBU?

Ex bf once stopped at a Little Thief only to be told they were out of fried eggs and only had scrambled. They were brought in frozen

And thank you, op, you've just chosen mil's Christmas present!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have to force the stone out of an avocado, then the avocado isn't ripe? When they're not ripe don't they give you indgestion and have no taste?

You're lucky they didn't slop that manky mass produced guacomole on your salad. Also was the chicken was little cubes of white, tasteless reconstituted meat? Those kind of fake mexican places are horrible.

YANBU, I go to restaurants to eat food that is better than I can cook myself, but if I choose something from the menu, it should at least be the same thing that arrives at the table.

Oh god YANBU. My worst ever experience of this was in Pizza Express (Manchester King St branch about five years ago... Still bearing a grudge). I had a Niçoise salad - it came with no tuna and no eggs.

I complained and they said the chef run out of tuna & eggs - nice that they'd thought to tell me. They offered to make me something else but we were rushing to the theatre so I watched DP eat his pizza and then we left.

hackmum nooo at cucumber! Imagine someone in the kitchen thought 'ah, they'll probably never notice..'

I have just remembered going for a meal out where we got jelly and ice cream for DS for pudding, and when it came it looked somehow not quite right. Tasted it and it was cubes of raw jelly chopped up, with ice cream on top. Presume someone in the kitchen had only ever seen ready-made jelly and had no idea what to do with the cubes...

Just remembered the time I went to a well known chain restaurant and ordered Farmhouse Pate, with caramalised onion chutney on granary bread.

I got one slice of white toast, a lettuce leaf and strawberry jam

I was told it was the chefs first day.

I can only guess it could also have been his last!

Just read the whole thread. I used to be an almost weekly Chiquito's customer between 1993 and 1995 - the Leicester Square one - and it was brilliant value for impoverished trainees. Free tortilla chips and salsa, free ice cream on your birthday, free cocktails after Christmas if you saved up tokens. Went back a couple of years ago and it was crap.

A fiver off could be good value dependent on the cost of the salad. Not an avocado fan though - I subscribe to the slimy and lethal view.

LOL at Little Thief

We went to Chiquitos once, never again, it was all shit. Wahaca is a favourite when in London but not so good the last time we were up, hasn't it been sold on now? Which might be the reason for the frozen guacamole in Cardiff, it all tasted fresh and lovely the first time we went to Charlotte St. Her cookbooks are excellent though and my go to guacamole recipe. If you want a real treat try Cantina Laredo they make the guacamole fresh at the table, it is delicious.

The salad was £14 I think, so not brilliant value really given that avocado is a pretty important ingredient in a dish that is has it in the title.

I am ROARING with laughter at raw jelly cubes and a Nicoise salad with no egg and no tuna. I can just imagine the chef saying 'Of course it's a Nicoise sald, look there's a few green beans it in, and there's a balck olive under there, what's the matter with you, woman?'

I am another one who has also had a dollop of strawberry jam plonked onto a savoury dish as a weird substitute for chutney. When I complained the (foreign) staff were bewildered about what the problem was. Obviously all jams, chutneys, cranberry sauces etc. look like they should be interchangeable on account of coming in similar looking jars.

YANBU. And I knew before I clicked on this thread that it would be missing either chicken, bacon or avocado!

Mmm you've reminded me that I have some avocados that need eating

LOL at your thinking Chiquitos make their guacamole in house!

We went to chiqitos in London very many years ago. It was packed. I spotted a mouse under our table and bring polite and a lot less assertive than I used to be quietly told our waiter.

After that it was like Fawlty Towers with various members of staff trying to spot the mouse without alerting customers. I rather got the giggles.

Never been back though.

Perfectly No, if you read my OP again you'll see I didn't think they made it in house, but I thought it might have at least have occurred to them to offer me some guacamole as an alternative to having fresh avocado, rather than give me no avocado at all!

LittleMissStresshead the Barefoot Contessa calls a BLAT a California BLT.

Avocado means "testicle tree".

I love avocado, simple, safe but unhygienic way to remove the stone, use your teeth, I only do this when its just me eating ( honest!)