To be disappointed about my desert?

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Just had a meal in a local restaurant.
I ordered creme brûlée, it’s my favourite pudding. To me a good creme brûlée should have a hot burnt sugar crust with a smooth creamy light custard.

The pudding arrived looking spectacular with a high tower of spun sugar but bloody hell, when I tasted the custard it was thick with chopped raw hazelnuts. The texture was heavy as if it had been overly thickened with gelatin. It felt and tasted awful. So unlike what I expected, surprisingly as the main course was really excellent.
I ate the sugar but left the rest after tasting it.
I politely told the waitress that I couldn’t eat it, I would not have ordered it if I had been told it contained raw nuts (toasted nuts may have been ok, but still I would have preferred an ordinary creme brûlée)

She said ‘oh dear, what a shame’ but charged us for it. She suggested that in future I should check what the brûlée contains as the chef likes to mix it up and try different flavours.

So no tip for her.

Do you think they should have charged me? AIBU to think that if the chef changes a classic recipe, then the menu should indicate this or the waitress should have let me know that when I ordered it?

Puddings are really important, aren’t they? You just can’t mess with a dessert like this. It’s anarchy. What will future generations do if we allow this kind of thing now? I have children, I can’t bear to think that this is their future, a future containing raw nuts in creme brûlée.

I have to go and lie down. My heart is broken. My head is wrecked.

If there was no mention of nuts in the description then that’s really poor! You need to be so careful from an allergy perspective if nothing else.

I wouldn’t have been happy paying for it.

Desert? Or Dessert? I wish I could spell...

I think you should sue them.

Haha! It's clearly a day for it. I took my sister out for lunch today to mega fancy restaurant. Creme brulee for dessert. No crust at all. Not even an attempt at one! it was absolutely gorgeous, but it was NOT creme brûlée!

I would not have expected nuts in a creme brulee. No I don't think you should have been charged for it.

If it didn't mention that it was a 'raw hazelnut' creme brulee then I think you have every right to be surprised by it. I've never heard of CB being anything but the classic version or occasionally having some fruit in it. raw hazelnuts sound horrible. I wouldn't have paid. Did it say what it had in it on the menu ? - you shouldn't have to ask if it just calls itself 'creme brulee' you expect the classic version.

You have made me want creme brulee now. (without hazelnuts)

They had an allergy disclaimer on the menu. They were mean to charge, weren’t they?

my DM makes it with bloody fruit in! that's WRONG!

She suggested that in future I should check what the brûlée contains as the chef likes to mix it up and try different flavour

Well she was very wrong on this account, as if you are going to mess with a classic recipe then it's up to the restaurant to sell it as 'hazelnut brulee'.She was being cheeky to suggest this really.

Was it really that bad ?

On holiday last year I had a Panna Cotta that the chef had put in a jar and poured pineapple over...it totally destroyed it and the waitress offered me something else which I didnt want so didn't charge me. Chef agreed it was a mistake

I would have rejected it as soon as the nuts had been revealed, and asked for it to be removed from the bill or replaced with something less controversial.

Also would not have let her get away with blaming me for choosing creme brulee as a classic when WankerChef is buggering about and going rogue in the kitchen.

I once ordered sticky toffee pudding. Now, my Dad makes the best sticky toffee pudding in the world, light, airy, but deliciously flavoursome, so I wasn't expecting perfection. However, they had added cranberries and candied peel. It was awful and not a sticky toffee pudding.

This would have been dangerous for me. I like creme brulee, I would quite likely have ordered it after checking the menu did not say it contained nuts. If when it arrived I took a bite without looking closely it would have meant a trip to A&E. Not displaying the correct allergen information is going to get them in trouble sooner rather than later. They might kill someone.

@Lougle I'm sorry but you're mistaken. Your dad doesn't make the best STP-I do!! You're welcome to come over to confirm 😂. And there's no fucking peel or cranberries in mine!! Heathens!!

Once, I went to a place that served my sticky toffee pudding with chocolate ice cream. They had obviously run out of vanilla, and substituted with chocolate, as if that were an acceptable thing to do. To this day, I regret not complaining and just eating it in a shocked manner.

Yanbu it’s like an episode of black mirror. Make sure you draw your curtains when you go for a lay down to make sure you can properly recover!

I want non-disgusting creme brûlée now 😁

WHAAAAT? Thats just wrong.

My local pub does amazing crumbles, apple and salted carmel being the best. Ordered the blackberry one night and it was beyond horrid. Inedible completely. Apparently they had soaked the blackberries in gin.
I don't drink so was a bit miffed not to have been told this was anything but a standard blackberry crumble. They didn't charge for it though and i now check that chef hasn't been on the gin again.

I find desserts are often disappointing when I eat out. They’re like an afterthought on the menu. Especially cheesecake of the day - is cheesecake really so popular that we’d get excited about a different one every day. And I’m sure a lot of them are bought in for convenience.

@babyno5 I'm always very happy to oblige

YANBU. I had a similar experience in Tenerife when I was given a deconstructed flan (essentially tiny pieces of flan with lashings of cream). Rubbish.

That could have made me very ill and I don't belove a disclaimer in the menu is enough these days

At Christmas work do treacle tart was on the menu. It was actually treacle pudding. A totally different thing. Waitress said ‘it’s the same thing’. We left it but should have challenged her.
Most places would/should either offer an alternative or not have charged. Good will is worth way more than the cost of a dessert.

sorry Mamma but I had to at the image of you eating your chocolate icecream accompaniment in a shocked manner

There is no disappointment that matches up to finding something shite at the bottom of your creme brûlée. Last one I had was fucking crunchy passion fruit juice at the bottom.

I found it hard not to throw it at a wall and wail. 😡

I have been given a “chocolate brownie” that was actually chocolate cake. It was very nice cake but it most definitely wasn’t brownie.

Sacrilege! I mean, I know some people insist on flavouring creme brûlée but if they do so a) they are wrong and b) it should be clearly specified on the menu.

PS @Lougle @babyno5 sorry, but my DH makes the best sticky toffee pudding in the world and I will not be convinced otherwise without evidence (but am willing to sample both efforts just to be sure )