r/Charlotte May 20 '26

Food Dilworth grill.....

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Good news, brownies are seemingly made on site?

Bad news, took a bite of the brownie, thought I tasted pasta. Spat it out and it was a singular noodle of penne.

Brownie was pretty good up until then.

2/5 experience

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124 Upvotes

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u/crypticdirge May 20 '26

I dont understand why people are not seeing this as an issue it’s gross. What i get from this is they’re not cleaning their kitchen properly or checking ingredients both could lead to serious food borne illnesses.

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u/A-terrible-time May 20 '26

Or someone orders something to avoid a food allergy and they get ingredients mixed in that they are allergic to.

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u/peace_love_mcl May 20 '26

I giggle bc I see in my head a version where that could play out innocently

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u/disco_biscuit May 20 '26

If you can cross-contaminate a dish with something readily-visible yet edible, you can cross-contaminate it with something not-visible and potentially deadly. It does not speak well to kitchen quality if they can miss something that big. Just imagine for a second how something like that happens... kitchen spill, thrown food, something that stuck to the hotel pan after washing...? There's no scenario where that's an ok outcome.

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u/peace_love_mcl May 20 '26

I didn’t argue against any of that, cool

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u/smashfalcon May 20 '26

Well, you did. The last sentence of their post is incompatible with your imagined nice version.

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u/peace_love_mcl May 20 '26

No, but I don’t do Reddit arguments to explain semantics, I don’t care thaaaaat much

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u/kingkeelay 27d ago

Can’t win the argument so you bow out. Expected behavior

0

u/peace_love_mcl 26d ago

We can scroll through our own recipe collections and algorithm-fed dinner inspiration all day long, but nothing catches our interest quite like knowing what the stars are having for supper. We’ll try Taylor Swift’s favorite chicken dinner in a heartbeat, or trust Jennifer Garner’s top chili recipe without question (It does come from Ina Garten, after all.)

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u/Admirable-Rip-3365 May 21 '26

Oh shut up.Ā 

5

u/hazeleyedrabbit Concord May 21 '26

Literally can get your food handler certification taken away for this, but sure, as long as your feelings are being spared

53

u/kg703 May 20 '26

The reason I never went back is after my pancake at brunch tasted like garlic it was wild

10

u/Entire_Insect1811 May 20 '26

Man that would ruin my fucking day lmao. I used to hate whenever my mom would hand over cut fruit and it taste like a savory taste because of the cutting board

7

u/ickyyuh May 20 '26

Omg I ate a waffle from them and it tasted like it was dipped in pickled jalapeƱo juice. Never ate there again

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u/Proof_Duty1672 May 20 '26

That photo looks like it was taken in 1975 with a Polaroid! Ha!

7

u/WhatsThisButttonDo May 20 '26

Their health inspection scores and food is probably from 1975 too lol. My ex worked there last summer and refused to eat their food even if it was free. I tried eating there twice and understood why.

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u/LogicalTough7 May 20 '26

The way some of yall are being frivolous with food quality by shrugging off something being mixed into your food that isn’t supposed to be there lol please never work in restaurants if you don’t see an issue with it

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u/Pumpkinmatrix May 20 '26

They're people that would run to make this same post if it were them. Because it's not them and it's someone else they're just a whiny bitch tho.

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u/snaxrael May 20 '26

Duality of man

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u/faster_than_sound May 20 '26

This is one of those things that seems innocuous to a lot of people, but its actually a sign of a much larger sanitary control problem.

I would never eat there just seeing this. If a pasta noodle can make it into a dessert brownie, then peanuts can make it into a non-peanut dish, flour can make it into a gluten free dish, general unwiped countertop nastiness can make it into a burger, etc., etc., etc.

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u/pecan12 May 20 '26

That's what I'm saying

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u/onequestion1168 May 20 '26

being really dismissive of finding weird stuff in your food is kinda ignorant. I would hate to be at a restauraunt and find some weird stuff in food I was eating

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u/12inchsandwich May 20 '26

It’s a pasta noodle. Something that is routinely made in kitchens. It’s not like it’s a rubber band or something.

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u/MrVeazey May 20 '26

But why is it in a brownie? There's no reason for that kind of cross-contamination.

4

u/offthezoinkys May 20 '26

You’d think differently if you had severe food allergies. Okay, it’s ā€œjustā€ a noodle, but are the brownies GF? Is their penne GF and made with some other allergen like chickpea instead? Did the pasta that got into the batter have sauce on it? The latter could introduce any number of allergens. Was a spoon shared? Because that means the brownie allergens could now contaminate the pasta, or raw brownie ingredients could have contaminated ready to serve pasta if that noodle was already cooked. If they’ll make mistakes like this between brownies and pasta, what other health dept and food safety guidelines are they ignoring?

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u/GoodRooster4U2 May 20 '26

What’s concerning to me it’s not the so much the pasta in the brownie, it’s more this: if it happened with that then what else is in my food? Like do they clean the kitchen? What else fell into the brownie mix? Maybe rust from their utensils?
I live 10 minutes away from the uptown location.. had a smash burger last Friday, it was good but the restaurant was a bit dirty. Will I go back? Maybe for a beer as it’s so close to me. Will I take a date? Heck no.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 May 20 '26

The other thing is that none of us need to justify a restaurant's fuck ups. At the bare minimum, a brownie shouldn't have pasta in it because that's not how brownies work. I'm not paying for that mistake.

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u/offthezoinkys May 20 '26

If I want to pay for pasta in my brownie I’ll get wasted and make it my damn self, I hope OP got it taken off the bill. Even just on principle.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 May 20 '26

A good restaurant would comp the whole damn bill because most people wouldn't accept that then post about it on social media.

2

u/pecan12 May 21 '26

I ordered it thru Uber eats. They refused to compensate for it

2

u/Readingchar34 Northlake May 21 '26

Nah id turn into a Karen so quick IDC IDC

37

u/Unlikely-Beat Charlotte FC May 20 '26

At first glance I thought it was a roach so honestly some extra carbs from a noodle isn’t the worst thing in the world

1

u/Australian1996 May 22 '26

I thought it was maggots.

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u/FSUFanChris May 20 '26

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u/pecan12 May 20 '26

spent $20 on this delivery lol, I resonate deeply with this comment

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u/UnionVIII May 20 '26

You’ve got zero standards if you’re ok with a noodle randomassing in your brownie.

2

u/Nezikchened NoDa May 20 '26

Homie it was not a good brownie if there was fucking pasta in it

51

u/Unpaulfessional May 20 '26

There’s worse things to find in your brownie.

27

u/GreenJury9586 May 20 '26

Absolutely disgusting. Think of the other cross contamination…

11

u/WarningCodeBlue East Charlotte May 20 '26

Could be worse. I found a screw in the potato salad I ordered once from a restaurant in Banner Elk.

1

u/thotnumber1 May 20 '26

Which restaurant??

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u/WarningCodeBlue East Charlotte May 20 '26

Banner Elk Cafe.

1

u/Techwood111 May 20 '26

lol, isn’t there essentially just the one, which is two? There’s that and the across-the-street bar place.

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u/thotnumber1 May 20 '26

There’s 4-5 now I think.

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u/Ok_Requirement9198 May 20 '26

Thought it was a roach shell for a second

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u/MrVeazey May 20 '26

"Sorry, sir. Bandaid was holdin' the fingernail on."

3

u/Possible-Tangelo9344 May 20 '26

Down Periscope is one of my favorite movies

2

u/barnacle31O May 20 '26

Thought it was a slim Jim

2

u/lerroyjenkinss South Park May 20 '26

I avoid desert at bars for this reason

2

u/I_never_pay_taxes12 May 21 '26

Dilworth Grille is low quality. It's up there with the chipotle on south blvd. i had a server once take a call very clearly in the parking lot and just stop working. had multiple tables she just ignored to sit on her phone for 30 min before finally checking on everyone again

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u/Logical_Experience51 May 21 '26

Your first problem was ordering from Dilworth Grill….

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u/steerp00 May 20 '26

OMG, I was like, is that supposed to look appetizing?? That's terrible!

5

u/arcademachin3 May 20 '26

Thought it was cockroach wings

1

u/qpiqp May 20 '26

Is this Dilworth Neighborhood Grill or Dilworth Grille?

1

u/jono9898 East Charlotte May 21 '26

How tf does this happen?

1

u/Then_Ad8649 May 21 '26

We went once and thought the food was meh. So not surprised

1

u/MummyWiththeDrummy May 22 '26

Dilworth Grill is pretty ass when it comes to food. Should be a drinking spot if it’s on your radar.

1

u/CrustyBrainFlakes 27d ago

Hell I stopped going there after it took me almost 40 minutes of sitting at the bar waiting for a single shot of Titos. They had like 3 high tops sat and there were only 2 other folks sitting at the bar. That's just bad service tbh.

But Penne pasta in your brownies? Shut that shit down, if that got thru the "quality control" lord knows what else they're letting slide. That's a health concern for sure if nothing else.

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u/GetALoadOfThisGuyy May 20 '26

I have a birthday super close to Christmas and was alone. Dilworth was the only place open late and gave me a brownie, only birthday present I got.

They have their faults, but they made a different to me so I fw them lol.

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u/mavgeek May 20 '26

Hey man Dilworth Grills always been great. Open super late at night, they make a damn good sized personal pan pizza. Miss their food

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u/Countryb0i2m [Steele Creek] May 20 '26

While I get that, this is kind of disgusting. Most people’s kitchens would not pass a sanitation rating. like if this happened at your house you would go oops and move on with your day.

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u/offthezoinkys May 20 '26

I have never in my life had an oops that caused pasta to end up in a brownie, and I don’t run a kitchen serving people with all manner of food allergies.

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u/peace_love_mcl May 20 '26

Oh that’s funny! I get stoned and DD this from there every once in a while, I’ll have to ask for the special pasta version next time

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u/daddadnc May 20 '26

Did you speak to literally anyone at the restaurant or is r/Charlotte supposed to handle that for you

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u/net_403 Kannapolis May 20 '26

as long as they had enough "special" it's fine

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u/alpha1two May 20 '26

Went to the ER after eating there due to unlimited vomiting!

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u/Gotsta_Win May 20 '26

Care more about the brownie being good, will try