Naive American tourist hilariously falls for ‘genius’ London restaurant prank:
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This American tourist got served — in more ways than one.
Liam Nelson, a New York comedian in London for a gig, thought he’d sniffed out a hidden culinary standout when he stumbled across glowing online reviews for Angus Steakhouse in Leicester Square.
But what did he actually find?
A side of steak with a supersized helping of British sarcasm.
“I went on Reddit, every single response was Angus Steakhouse in Leicester Square,” Nelson said in a June 1 TikTok video, captioned “Talk about a mis-steak…,” which quickly racked up over 127,000 views.
“I thought maybe this is a little hole-in-the-wall area next to all these shops, like a secret hidden gem.”
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Turns out, he was the latest victim of a long-running British prank — London Redditors have been “love bombing” tourist-trap chains like Angus with five-star reviews to keep real foodies away from the city’s actual best eateries, as reported by The Daily Mail.
“I found an article about how London Reddit has tried to send tourists to Angus Steakhouse to preserve the good steakhouses for themselves — genius,” he said in his nearly six-minute clip.
“I have never seen Reddit all agree on a restaurant before,” Nelson added. “And they all had these glowing reviews … Some voice in the back of my head was saying ‘this is wrong, this is not normal’ and I ignored it.”
Not exactly a red flag he picked up on — until it was too late.
The joint, he soon discovered, was actually “loud,” “chaotic” and came with a “giant neon sign.”
Angus Steakhouse sign.
A New York funnyman thought he found a sizzling hidden gem in London — until a juicy twist at Angus Steakhouse left a bad taste.
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Then came the gray slab of steak.
“It was bad. I tried the creamed spinach — worse than frozen somehow. London Reddit, that is one for you, zero for me.”
Fellow TikTokkers had a field day with the viral video.
“As a London Redditor who actively takes part in this joke; I’m not sorry,” one user gloated beneath Nelson’s clip.
Another added, “Hahaha I’m glad it actually got someone,” while someone else summed it up with, “WE GOT ONE.”
Others offered redemption suggestions in the comments section: “Go Flat Iron, it’s in Covent Garden, affordable decent steak,” and “Next time you’re in London, get a steak at the Guinea Grill Pub in Mayfair! Incredible steakhouse.”
A man in a bucket hat shows a gray-scale image of a steak, stating it's for color reference.
Turns out, Nelson got played — locals have been flooding tourist-trap chains like Angus with five-star reviews in a cheeky bid to steer foodies far from the real gems.
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The whole beefy debacle comes amid rising tension between real reviews and fake raves — a trend The Post has covered before.
Earlier this year, a Florida restaurant tried — and failed — to sue a customer over a one-star review.
Irene Eng, a prolific Yelp and TripAdvisor reviewer, was slapped with a defamation lawsuit by Hales Blackbrick, a Chinese eatery in Tampa, after calling its spare ribs “dry” and its coffee “lukewarm — a Cardinal sin!!”
The suit was tossed in February, with the judge siding with Eng’s First Amendment rights.
“I’m 1,000% for freedom of speech — you can say whatever you want,” chef Richard Hales later told the Tampa Bay Times. “We’re not thin-skinned, we’re just humans.”
Still, the great steak debate rages on
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