My father used to tell me that if you want to know how hygienic a restaurant's kitchen is, take a look at their bathroom. Because if a place can't be bothered to keep a customer-facing facility like the restroom clean, what makes you think they'll hold half as much regard for the back end?\n\nFlat Top's was not the worst case I've ever seen, but I did want to run far out of that bathroom the second I walked into it. The same could be said of the whole restaurant...it had this ugly open-air setup which felt like a cafeteria lined with tacky decorations.\n\nHowever my main issue is with the food. The meat was tough and had a paper-like consistency. All the sauces tasted the same. The whole meal was dry, flavorless, and just plain tough to eat. But the most truly unforgivable offense was the blatant disregard for food safety. The buffet from which you pick your food for frying is a disgusting mess.\n\nWhen you hand your selection of meat and vegetables to the cooks, you stick a wood marker in the food to identify it as yours. My marker was handed to them inside a bowl full of raw meat. When the food was brought out to me, that same marker was sticking out of my meal!\n\nI ended up picking at my food at the sides of the bowl away from the marker, and throwing the whole thing away.\n\nIt should come as no surprise then, whether it was a case of cross-contamination or not, that I spent the rest of the day fighting a pretty serious stomachache.