Selecta Modern Pizza — Restaurant in Berlin

Update: another friend of mine was harassed verbally at this place by the waiters.

TLDR: Worst restaurant experience of my entire life. Harassed and threatened by the waiter, and hair found in the food. Waiter verbally abused us.

I went here in a group of 4 on a Saturday evening. What seemed to start off as a new pizza place we wanted to try out, ended up as one of the worst evenings I’ve ever experienced as a restaurant-goer.

Food: One of the pizzas arrived quite burnt, but we went along with it. After finishing more than half of the pizza, I found a hair in the sauce, that was quite obviously not mine (curly and small). I dont know if it’s just me, but I lose my appetite rather quickly after seeing a hair in my food. I didn’t feel like reporting this or causing any drama, or even ruining the experience for others, so I just left the remaining half of my pizza. Decided not to go ahead with dessert.

Service: Okay, now for the main part. When we asked for the bill, we had to wait 25 mins. Once he was ready, we gently asked him if we could pay by card, and he seemed a bit confused as to what the answer was. He first said no, then he said he could try, and then he reverted back to a no. Then he decided, EC card was the only card option that worked. We gladly obliged. However, while we were waiting for the card to work, we politely asked, why no other card was working. To which we were very loudly shouted at us, and said, “you could read the sign at the door and not walk in next time”. Please keep in mind, at no point did we refuse to pay or create drama out of the payment process. We were just very nicely asking. We were shocked and I asked the waiter to kindly lower his tone, and that there was no need to bring this sort of attention to us. He then harshly told us that we should “just learn to read as it is written on the door (no card payment?) instead of asking me anything”. He also added, “I own the place so I make the decisions”. We were SHOCKED and I was frightened and scared by this aggression.

The waiter then called my partner the f word, (which I can’t type out otherwise the review doesn’t get posted). We were absolutely shocked!!!! Who speaks to anyone like that? I asked him to repeat what he had just said because I couldn’t believe it, and he threatened to call the police on us. This is when I started recording, just so we could protect ourselves in case we needed proof that he was indeed the one being aggressive and verbally abusive, whereas we were trying to de-escalate. I have circulated this clip amongst my friends to warn them not to go to this place, and they were all absolutely shocked.

He even said to us, “be careful what you say, you don’t know who I am”. Which was a threat that made me extremely uncomfortable.

The few people sitting outside, all heard the waiter yelling at us, and threatening us. What is even more shocking was that neither of his two colleagues intervened to calm the situation down. Maybe this happens regularly and they are used to it?

All 4 of us have told everyone we know in Berlin not to go to this place, and I will continue to do so (just as our recommendation...

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