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We Want Plates is the hilarious Twitter account and website that brings together some of the worst food plating disasters seen in restaurants around the world. We've written about them before on the site and they just keep getting better and better. Seemingly, some chefs just haven't learnt their lesson.
Here, we've collected 39 of the worst food plating ideas ever from We Want Plates – some are a little misguided, some outright bizarre, and others well, possibly illegal, certainly unhygienic. Would you like to eat your breakfast from a dog bowl? No, thought not.
Once you've stopped laughing you'll be sitting there in a state of disbelief, wondering how on earth these chefs thought these food plating ideas would work – that was our reaction at least.
Have you experienced something similar or worse? Let us know over on our Facebook page.
And here's how it should be done: 100+ amazing food plating ideas to try.
More laughs: Chefs share 58 of the stupidest food orders ever
You can't go wrong with a classic Shepherd's Pie. Unless you're the Old George Inn, South Cerney.
(Pic: @headcovers) pic.twitter.com/eNp4qLS1ou— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 24, 2016
Enjoy your fry-up tomorrow morning, but spare a thought for people who still eat off garden tools.
(Pic: @Bassboy73) pic.twitter.com/CyHGPRtrVy— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) October 16, 2015
Sausage, chips and... other stuff... at Varsity, Warwick.
Yes, that is a dog bowl.
(Pic: @zoecarrington) pic.twitter.com/Uk25iPcBw2
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) July 27, 2015
Chefs who serve pancakes and syrup on a board with no gutter have clearly never waited tables.
(Pic: @gavroche2000) pic.twitter.com/h2rE0IdJaE
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) October 4, 2015
"Tonight's special is the fish."
"What sort of fish?"
"A gold one. And we'll need it back."(Pic: @DARRENR6) pic.twitter.com/BQsouKkkW3
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 19, 2015
Coleslaw in a shopping trolley. The end of the world is nigh.
(Pic: @bobgranleese) pic.twitter.com/eUUJ3P2J5m— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) February 26, 2016
"Would you like some bread while you wait?"
*five minutes later*
"I'M FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD."
(Pic: @megoizzy) pic.twitter.com/OKajYfWSl1
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 9, 2016
"What's the soup of the day?"
"Cream of wild mushroom, with a hint of insole and corn plaster."
(Pic: @simonraess) pic.twitter.com/ChaLTrcV0j— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 30, 2016
Squid in a clog.
A CLOG.
(Pic: @hcbn) pic.twitter.com/634Z2uJONZ
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 21, 2015
"How would you like your iced coffee?"
"Deconstructed and served on a child's book, please."(Pic: Lyn Nguyen) pic.twitter.com/deBZOZ7JPj
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 29, 2016
A Sunday roast "with all the trimmings" - Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, parsnips and moss. pic.twitter.com/SCmY3xKx90
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 21, 2016
"Chef, we can't keep charging people so much for some bits of fruit on a plate."
"FETCH THE MUG TREE AND A DRILL."(Pic: @Aunty_Marianne) pic.twitter.com/63h3uIiuFp
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 15, 2016
Happy #NationalBurgerDay ? pic.twitter.com/Nhs5enx3KY
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 25, 2016
Call us cynical, but we don't believe this skateboard will see the inside of a dishwasher.
(Pic: @GabrielGTweets) pic.twitter.com/xJmcyPw6JS— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) July 20, 2016
I told the waitress, ripping the piss, that she forgot to give me the brush. Ripping the piss, she brought me one. pic.twitter.com/OoX496S3pW
— Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) March 21, 2016
Life Of Pi, of course.
(Pic: Jayne Brown) pic.twitter.com/xVUXuDTODY
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 6, 2016
Because why wouldn't you want onion rings hanging on salvage from the restaurant's bathroom refit? (Pic: @FSekeleni) pic.twitter.com/mDk4ip87aH
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) December 6, 2015
A reminder to all chefs during #BritishSausageWeek: sausage and mash does not belong in a glass. (Pic: @mickmcavoy) pic.twitter.com/nEr7zJ719m
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 4, 2015
A hollowed-out cricket bat, handy for dispatching the food straight back to the kitchen.
(Pic: @SarahASculpher) pic.twitter.com/sRBDEpGCth— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 21, 2016
"Chef, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived, they've ordered the tempura shoe to share."
(Pic: @eeketht) pic.twitter.com/8d0NCWhrSX— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) March 28, 2016
Macaroni Cauldron and Ketchup Syringe: two obscure indie bands for the price of one.
(Pic: @GraysonThe) pic.twitter.com/ujBWfAPDpE— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) October 28, 2016
Bloody Wimbledon.
(Pic: @msleannefraser) pic.twitter.com/BeCMbxAQcO
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 27, 2016
"How are the BBQ prawns served?"
"On a tree with a ceramic rabbit."*blinks*
(Pic: @SStenlake) pic.twitter.com/4rjvEUZvxX
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) April 21, 2016
Chefs: transform sausages into more expensive sausages by putting them in a goth's ashtray.
(Pic: @BrightSparkleJ) pic.twitter.com/QYq6sjbvrI— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 18, 2015
"Can we have the cheeseboard for dessert, please?"
"Cheese cupboard."
"Cheeseboard."
"CUPBOARD."(Pic: Laura Geary) pic.twitter.com/eEOqTwnsIQ
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 7, 2015
"The chicken lacks something, chef."
"Seasoning?"
"No."
"Jus?"
"No."
"Reproduction medieval sword?"
(Pic: M Graham) pic.twitter.com/LyVs7gwpmH— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) March 20, 2016
CHEFS! Stop food sliding onto tables by serving it on non-slip industrial flooring.
Or plates.
(Pic: Rob Wyborn) pic.twitter.com/VQTsJBksZr
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 5, 2016
"Today's specials include fish on a stick in a rock on a mirror."
"Literally?"
"Literally."
(Pic: @Sinead_aka_Nade) pic.twitter.com/9IiFGzJh9P— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) March 1, 2016
A very Toronto thing that happened tonight: I ordered a Caesar salad and got this. Was told the restaurant doesn't "do cutlery." pic.twitter.com/GDaugBjTlK
— Rhiannon Russell (@rhrussell) May 27, 2017
On #BeefWellingtonDay we take a solemn moment to recall the mini ones served on barbed wire.
(Pic: @AstridsTaste) pic.twitter.com/nGrtLFg4bf— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 18, 2016
Chips in a shopping basket ✅
Fish on rocks ✅
Plastic seaweed ✅
Fake market crate ✅
Eye-drop vinegar ✅A #NationalFishAndChipDay full house! pic.twitter.com/qhanBXR70n
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 2, 2017
"I'm sorry our chef hasn't assembled your pulled pork burger, he's very busy buying slates online."
(Pic: @Cuff76) pic.twitter.com/fP778EHlrP— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 13, 2015
The end of the world is nigh.
(Pic: @wyahaw) pic.twitter.com/WeaW8iVAjT— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 14, 2015
"What's in your surf and turf?"
"Battered prawns, madam."
"And the turf?"
"Some turf, madam."(Pic: @SianLouiseT) pic.twitter.com/4Nd8lOzct9
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 26, 2015
"Chef! We've run out of dessert bowls!"
"Don't panic, I kept a load of ashtrays after the smoking ban."
(Pic: Jess English) pic.twitter.com/EZUhidXzY4— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 25, 2017
Increasingly-familiar 'bacon washing-line' idiocy, plumbing new depths with salvage from a restaurant re-fit.
(Pic: @h1dudley) pic.twitter.com/iXoqMkeQIk— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 21, 2017
What fresh hell is this office canteen? My colleague has been served breakfast in a cup pic.twitter.com/fJuQPTjqGW
— Andy Roo (@ViewFromEssex) May 10, 2017
Lamb chops and potatoes, in a glass, on a slate. A sheep died for this.
(Pic: @ellabellalisa) pic.twitter.com/U62vGrCsWH— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 3, 2015
Chicken tikka staircase and chutney cupboard at the Tourist Janpath Hotel, New Delhi.
A CHUTNEY CUPBOARD.
(Pic: @philipotts) pic.twitter.com/cnihDRzSXZ
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 14, 2017
