Jose O?Shay?s is an Irish pub on right on the beach in Cabarete. The d?cor and general ambiance of the place make it a good point to the visitor that this is a place to eat, drink and relax while you watch the day pass you by.
Unfortunately, when it comes down to service and quality you discover in the most unpleasant ways that this place is to be avoided. First the waitress got out order wrong. We had ordered fish and chips, and she brought us some other type of fish (?mero?, in Spanish). Well, ?let?s not stress it? we said. Let?s just enjoy our meal together. When the bill arrived, we saw it totaled RD$1,700, including tip and taxes. That?s US$58.62 at today?s exchange rate. So we also noticed we were paying Irish prices for a simple lunchtime meal.
But the price did not bother me as much as what came after. My companion and I spent the rest of the afternoon, night and morning with terrible stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. This ruined the evening we had planned, and prevented us from enjoying the rest of Cabarete. The next morning we had to go to the local clinic in Cabarete and had some medication and antacids prescribed. My companion was dehydrated from the vomiting the night before, and had to have an intravenous injection that was administered. When we made it to Santo Domingo in the afternoon, she had to go the doctor again because the symptoms of her food poisoning kept getting worse. She had to miss a day at work because of this.
All this thanks to a crappy meal at Jose O?Shay?s.
I told some friends what had happened and they were not surprised. They informed me that a friend of theirs also got poisoned by the fish at Jose O?Shay?s.
Unfortunately, when it comes down to service and quality you discover in the most unpleasant ways that this place is to be avoided. First the waitress got out order wrong. We had ordered fish and chips, and she brought us some other type of fish (?mero?, in Spanish). Well, ?let?s not stress it? we said. Let?s just enjoy our meal together. When the bill arrived, we saw it totaled RD$1,700, including tip and taxes. That?s US$58.62 at today?s exchange rate. So we also noticed we were paying Irish prices for a simple lunchtime meal.
But the price did not bother me as much as what came after. My companion and I spent the rest of the afternoon, night and morning with terrible stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. This ruined the evening we had planned, and prevented us from enjoying the rest of Cabarete. The next morning we had to go to the local clinic in Cabarete and had some medication and antacids prescribed. My companion was dehydrated from the vomiting the night before, and had to have an intravenous injection that was administered. When we made it to Santo Domingo in the afternoon, she had to go the doctor again because the symptoms of her food poisoning kept getting worse. She had to miss a day at work because of this.
All this thanks to a crappy meal at Jose O?Shay?s.
I told some friends what had happened and they were not surprised. They informed me that a friend of theirs also got poisoned by the fish at Jose O?Shay?s.