#1 yuck - Honey's Beestro

located: 1601 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough (@ Ellesemere)

Part of a trio of yuck's - fair to mention that the Pizza Hut and the Burger King at the same corners were awful in their own rite...this place has, in short, shitty food, shitty service, shitty staff...shitty all around.

having just moved into the neighborhood down the road in June, we continued our eatery adventures and thought it looked interesting to try out. BIG MISTAKE!

This is how it all went:

Wifey and I walk in. server/waitress greets us with a mixed look of confusion or...wtf? "OMG two fucking lesbians just walked in!!!!!" Rather than seating us with the rest of the folks, she directly pushes us into the back bar area where NO ONE was sitting. Was this an act of kindness so we could have more privacy? I highly doubt it...rather more the fact she didn't know what else to do with the two of us and clearly had issues with our orientation with all the gufawed looks and nervous tension around us. Needless to say, this area we were forced to sit in was loud, raucous and noisy as hell with out of control staff, VERY loud voices and unprofessional staff bantering...yes, in front of us, the customers.

We look at each other to see if we should bother staying...well, we were STARVING and decided to stay despite our gut instincts.

Looking over the menu, we decided on an appetizer mix of deep fried veggie mix (apparently, no longer on the menu). BIG MISTAKE again. "Tossed" onto our table...or imagine this...the plate miraculously somehow slid across to us like a well-thrown frisbee, the only comment I can make is that we would have probably eaten less dripping oil if we had dipped the veggies into the Exxon oil spill ourselves (the oil spill being big news still at that time).

Almost as greasy but not quite was my wifey's Fish & Chips dinner. I had high hopes for my stuffed 'meat' dish, fortunately no longer within my memory (also no longer on their menu). Yet, after merely 2 bites, I could no longer eat it nor the day(s) old mashed potatoes floating in a greasy gravy.

During all of this awful eating experience, the staff continued to be extremely loud and acting like a family of buffoons in the jungle...none of which was amusing to us nor do I doubt would have been to any other customers. Add to this that the waitress practically ignored us, didn't come by to see if all was ok, didn't see if we needed anything else...only came by when we asked her for the bill, clearly noting that neither of us enjoyed our food by the fact we left 3/4 of it on our plates. No questions, no discount offered...nothing but an air of 'let's get you both the fuck out of here'. Gladly. I don't clearly remember but I don't think we left a tip or if we did, it would have been very minimal. To date, we still have the need to make barfing noises when we pass by.