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.

My father's ex-wife used to make something she called a peach brulee, which was actually nothing like a proper brulee , but instead was a layer of tinned peaches, then a shit ton of stiffly whipped cream, then a nice thick layer of caramelised brown sugar. It was the dog's bollocks, but in no way supposed to be a crème brulee.

As a side note- if all those who are claiming to make the world's best sticky toffee pudding would care to send samples my way, I'd be very happy to do a taste test for you...

(When I was pregnant with ds2 I had a sticky toffee pudding with cream, ice cream AND custard. I was Very Sick that night, which was a shame, because it was a great STP)

I went out with some friends a while ago we had a nice main meal but two people ordered cheese cake . It came in a a oversized wine glass affair , the topping was a bit thin the base was very thick and we all commented the fact that they must of running low and just had enough to scrape them together .
When they tried to eat the base it was just powder, not a biscuit crumb in site , it was more like very finely milled porridge oats. they called the waiter over and asked for a explanation , she went to the kitchen and was back in seconds and said that is the way the chef here makes them . my friend responded as quick as a flash 'not if he wants me to pay for them its not ! ' They got it knocked off the bill but it spoilt the meal .

That is actually dangerous, in several different ways. So no, you should not have been charged for it.

A friend and I were once out in a cafe and ordered what looked like (and was labelled) chocolate fudge cake.

Alas, black forest gateau.

Waitress was surprised when we asked her to take it back, as if chocolate cake often has jam etc in it and couldn't understand our disgust.

Err, no.

Creme brûlée is one of my favourite desserts.

I would have been deeply disappointed.

But I am often disappointed in restaurants.

I love it when they say ' next time' and I raise an eyebrow.

I was taught to remember the spelling difference between desert and dessert as "2 s's in the one you'd like 2 of".

and YANBU. I'm a stickler for traditional recipes. DH teases me by threatening to put oysters in the turkey stuffing. If they're not going with a traditional recipe there should be a thorough description on the menu.

Raw hazelnuts - yuck.

YANBU to be disappointed though I wouldn't have expected a refund.

I learned that too, Justsay 🙂 and also a desert is bare, has almost nothing in it, so only one S.

No no no! That's terrible! You shouldn't have to check how a creme brûlée is made. That's like ordering a sirloin steak and finding out it's been boiled not fried! Or someone making you beans on toast but with a tin of kidney beans!

Creme brûlée is my all time favourite dessert and I think I would actually weep if they brought that to me.

Yorkshire cheesecake with sultanas? Curd tart?

Baked German cheesecake is the best sort of cheesecake. I've heard it referred to as Jewish cheesecake before as well.

LTBhth

Yes cheesecake is a big thing in Jewish cuisine. Cheesecake, challah, and chicken soup. You could survive on those three CHs

(although I'm not Jewish and suspect challah is only eaten at religious celebrations so forgive me if that's a bit crass)

Quite fancy some creme brulee/cheesecake nowbut it's gone midnight/don't happen to have those things in the fridge... dohhopefully i'll survive he night

I love challah -no youre ok fiddle you can eat it whnever

Yabu for thinking creme brulee is a great pudding, it's awful.

I once ordered French toast in a restaurant for brunch in a very fashionable and upmarket tourist resort. What I got was a slice of cold fruited brioche. I called the waitress over and queried it and was told in a very patronising way ‘oh, we don’t do French toast the traditional way here’. Unfortunately for her, I wasn’t a tourist but a resident and was able to reply that they had prepared it the traditional way every other time I had eaten there and I sent it back. I was very cross as I had been looking forward to it all morning.

As I was leaving she came running after me to tell me that chef apologised and someone had made a mistake in the kitchen. So obviously the ‘we don’t do things in the traditional way’ excuse was a load of bollocks intended to cut off complaints.

My Jewish grandma whose parents were Polish/ German always loved baked cheesecake with sultanas. She also loved Yorkshire curd tart which is similar but with a pastry base. I really love Yorkshire curd tart but I know dried fruit divides opinion!

OP is NBU - raw hazelnuts in a Creme Brûlée with no warning is disgraceful!

Castle Terrace in Edinburgh does an AMAZING traditional non fucked about with creme brûlée if anyone is ever looking for one.

that was wrong of the chef, to mix it up, it should be in the description

you shouldnt have to ask

A chef I worked with once used bloody table salt instead of sugar on top of the creme brûlée’s. He even blowtorched it and didn’t twig that it wasn’t caramelising... I mean you’d think a chef of all people would be able to tell the difference? But no, he still sent it out.

He also made an ice cream sundae with mayo instead of whipped cream, and bloody sent that out as well 🙃 He was let go shortly after.

Dried fruit in sticky toffee pudding (or anything where you're not explicitly expecting it) is an abomination. That's all.

Anyone have a nice creme brulee recipe? Just plain , vanilla but good. I might make one today.

I can't believe someone would put sultanas in a cheesecake! Madness.

I hate bits in things. Even ice cream which I love, I won't touch it if it has chips in it, I just hate it the feeling of it. It's like jazz music. It's the uncertainty.

Once I was in a restauraunt and they put sprinkles on my ice cream, those colourful hard rice sized things on my ice cream, like pellets of shit on my dessert. Thanks.

Worst dessert ever was a lemon mousse. It was beyond bitter. I could have just about coped with tart but this was something else. I literally couldn't eat it. I actually wonder if there was something wrong with it. It was at a wedding and I hadn't paid so thought better of complaining.