Nick DiGiovanni
I Tested 1-Star Restaurants
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMT
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You won't believe what happened at the last place...
Chapter 1: What are the craziest one-star Yelp reviews?
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 Xander said, I do love Chinese food, as long as it's made by humans.
But I must say, the poo-poo platter looked 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 Trahan, 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?
Chapter 2: How did the health inspector react to the food?
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's good, the crisp is there. I think we have enough to write a review.
Chapter 3: What happened at Natalie's Pizza?
Gotta see what my fortune is. A lifetime of culinary adventures is coming.
We've made it to Natalie's Pizza. Ali says, there are only two things that happen when 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 use 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 wieners. And Theo said, I ordered a hot wiener, and it was a Walmart wiener. What's a Walmart wiener? I'm assuming he means they just bought it at Walmart. Yeah, I don't know. This is cool. Hello. Oh, we're just picking up. Thank you. How about here?
Let's eat some pizza. Wow. It's, like, 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 going to get in a fight with Dennis hitting him with the box. Here's the fight we're talking about right there. Let's go. 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 liked 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, canned pepperoni. This looks like a legit piece of pepperoni right here. It's a damn good pizza. I'm actually going to dive into the wieners. 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 going to 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 wiener. How would you know? I looked at a photo of the wieners 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 gonna 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 Silver's, 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 Silver's 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 sauces?
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Chapter 4: Why are Long John Silver's reviews so negative?
No kidding. Another review came from Phil, who looks a lot like a fisherman himself. Yeah, he could be on Wicked 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, are we?
Lauren said, I have been sitting in the drive-through behind two cars for nearly 30 minutes. 30 minutes? Who's got that kind of time? We got to see if the fast food line takes 30 minutes. Let's do it. Yes, hi. Is Long John Silver's open? What, are they catching the fish? What's up with this? OK, how will we know when it's open? Oh, we can order. You're just going to make it?
Can I please do just one regular plate of fried fish? Yes, please. Just water, please. Water. I'll try Baja Blast. Do you have green beans? How are you? Thank you. Oh, can we have 12 tartar sauce, please? Yeah? We'll park right there. Thank you so much. He was so nice. You never like to be in a fast food drive-thru 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.
Chapter 5: What is the experience like at Fire and Ice buffet?
Well, oh, oh, oh. Dennis, you want to grab it? Is this ours? It says Taco Bell, though. Elephant in the room here. It came in a Taco Bell bag. Luckily, inside the bag, it is Long John Silver's. Open up and say, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. First, let's count the tartar sauces. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12.
12. 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. In fact, 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. I think that might have been one of the best bites of fish and chips I've ever had. I think he was being honest about cooking it fresh. The fish on the inside, it's buttery. Flaky.
Chapter 6: What food is served at the Fire and Ice buffet?
Yeah. Is that one also ours? 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 buffet restaurant, fire and ice. Genasia 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 Ratatouille. 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 Ratatouille.
You remember what happened to the health inspector in Ratatouille? I don't. Didn't end well. Another review came from Miss Review. She wrote a very long free verse poem that I'm gonna 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. 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 it to 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.
While he's cooking, I've been looking around on the floor, and I have not seen any ratatouilles yet. Nor have I. Which is a good sign. And I haven't seen any evidence of that. Oh, your food. Thank you. I'll see you guys at the table.
Thank you so much. Ooh, that looks great. They chopped up my glizzy. Did he just start eating without us? Honestly, this stuff all looks pretty amazing. It's very good. I keep having flashbacks about the guy saying, 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.
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