Worst Food @ Glasto

[howlin_pete]

Potato wedges with cheesy sause. I have no one to blame for that but myself, a drunken panic buy

[hatman]

Ostrich should be cooked medium rare as it is a quality meat different to poultry - should be treated similar to beef steak. in face if it is overcooked it will dry out badly

[brightyoungthing]

Le grande bouffe after much anticipation was devastating! All of the people on here who championed it need their taste buds testing! One average sausage with tinned potatoes and some herbs shot in? £8? No thanks!

[mikeb]

'Gourmet Burger Company' or something similar in between Pyramid and JP it was a damp, warm horrible burger. was worse than a 99p McDonalds burger but for £5...no salad or anything.. Gourmet? I doubt it

[Tomo18]

with my love for BBQ saucy things, i was dissapointed with my BBQ noodles that tasted of water

[Wickedfaerie]

The pizza and pasta stall opposite the left field was dreadful. The pizzas didn't looked cooked enough, but I had carbonara for £7 and it was absolutely disgusting. It's got to be seriously bad for me to throw food away, but I really couldn't finish this awful soggy mess.

[dub-tech]

had a burger that tasted like the long drops smelled on the thursday - think it was from somewhere btween west holts and leftfield? utterly disgusting

[jjmcjohnson]

Thought Glastonbury wood fired pizza were bloody awful. I fell in love with them in 2011 and was the main food I was looking forward to. In a new area and looked like they spent all the money on a new stand and tasted like there was nothing left for the wood firing bit and used a microwave pizza.

[fur_q]

A lot of people mentioning the fish and chip place oppressite the Wow Stage, this was the Sea Cow, their cafe in London is really good but their festival operation seems to vary in quality massively, even at the same festival to the extent that I've had an a,a zing meal one day and gone back another day, only to be served complete sh**e. these days I always make a point of looking at the food as its served from the the van before queuing up and I guess I got lucky because my food was good.

Another mention fo he I love ostrich from me, there used to be good ostrich place near to Jazzworld that also sold kangaroo, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore. The burger I got from the ILO place was overlooked, dry and very bland.

Hog roast place on the path between other & silver haze was absoloubt crap too, only went there as it was the only place still open at 6am on Monday when I was walking home from Block 9 & I was absolutely starving.

Edited July 3, 2013 by fur_q

[airds]

Ostrich should be cooked medium rare as it is a quality meat different to poultry - should be treated similar to beef steak. in face if it is overcooked it will dry out badly

[Saul Goodman]

In terms of value of money. The beats Motel pancakes and Bacon was the worst thing I had all weekend. Tiny pancakes that tasted and looked like they where from a packet with horrible streaky bacon that had more fat than bacon. It was made all the worse by the fact I was really looking forward to it.

[Facetiousbob]

Me and my wife had a pulled pork burger near the west holts, undercooked. I had over half but soon realised and then felt crap for the rest of the day. It may have been heat stroke though...

I also had noodles from the corner next to the pyramid. M I N G I N G

[Georgeh]

Fish Finger Sarnie from the stall near Gate C £3.50 for 3 scabby tasteless fish fingers on very dry (verging on stale) roll. Told numerous others queuing at the stall whenever I passed over the weekend, not to bother.

[_jojo_]

The bbq place at the back right of west holts was pretty poor. Had a pulled pork bap and it was full of fat and had no sauces or anything.

The thai place near the bandstand was a big disappointment. I got chicken pad thai which would have tasted quite nice if it hadn't been sitting there for so long that they actually put it in the microwave to warm it up a bit. It was still cold after that.

[_jojo_]

In terms of value of money. The beats Motel pancakes and Bacon was the worst thing I had all weekend. Tiny pancakes that tasted and looked like they where from a packet with horrible streaky bacon that had more fat than bacon. It was made all the worse by the fact I was really looking forward to it.

[jimmy93]

Had a truly dreadful beef stir fry by the Pyramid. Probably the worst £6+ I've ever spent.

[legalaffairs]

Place called the cluck and moo or something. Awful chips, and the bacon was mostly just fat. Also had the meatballs from the place in the park that someone else mentioned. Cost 9.50, cold pasta.... Very average.

[eFestivals]

you can rate and comment on food stalls in the festival food section of this website.

[Inhaler]

Good because i think the prices/quality/portions are getting outrageous. In future i intend to cook more because of the generally poor quality, generic food stalls.

[Lexbank]

Totally agree with inhaler.

I know how this sounds before I even write it but this was by far the worst Glasto festival for food I've done I'm honestly struggling to think of one thing I enjoyed. Even the goat curry I tried wasn't a patch on what I'd previously had there. It's a festival, I don't expect gourmet food, but if I'm paying near to £10 from a fast food outlet I'd like to slightly enjoy it. There weren't many meals I finished and was often looking for long queues etc. there was a stall by the other stage selling sirloin steak and Stilton ciabattas, the queue was huge, it looked OK. £9 later I found out if not only wasted £18 on 2 I'd wasted half hour queuing.

Cooking next year for me too

Fantastic time by the way lol. Honest! :-)

[eFestivals]

I know how this sounds before I even write it but this was by far the worst Glasto festival for food

The markets manager was a new one this year. I don't know who it is and how they do the role, but the last one did the job to an obsessively high level (so much so that he was on site this year checking out all the stalls still ).

Someone posted above that a friend of theirs was a first time trader and was put in William's green food court, which I find a bit odd. I'd have thought that the fest would have wanted the traders they know well over many years and have a solid rep for quality in that part, and not newbies ... and it has to be said, some of the food in that part was pretty dreadful.

Edited July 4, 2013 by eFestivals

[Wooderson]

The veggie woodfired pizza place opposite the Astrolabe was fantastic.

[rexclark]

The half cooked pizza I got from somewhere in the Greenfields. Boggin.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

some of the food in that part was pretty dreadful.

[eFestivals]

I thought the food in most places was dreadful

well, true. But if you're going to have a dedicated 'food court', i'd have thought that you'd want to put only what you know to be great traders in there. That was what I was getting at.

- and a lot of it was the same. Crepe stalls, Mexican food, burger vans, fish and chips, jerk chicken, Chinese... I swear I saw most of the same vans there as I did at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor.

How many different food traders do you think there are, who can do enough business at temporary locations to financially support themselves?

Expecting any event to have it's own unique roster of traders is a laughable idea.