I had only 1 hour for a business lunch with foreign colleagues. Two of them were guests at the hotel and we decided to go to its restaurant as we were already there, and the restaurant was mostly empty. It turned out to be a disaster. Upon arrival I explained the waiter our time constraint and asked him if they could serve us a quick lunch. He responded me in a very friendly and understanding manner that he could serve us a risotto and the other dishes in 20-30 minutes. I, of course, trusted him. He gave us paper menus that were so worn-out that clearly should have been replaced weeks before. We ordered a risotto and a Brazilian dish, and the waiter left without taking our full orders. To cut this story shorter, we had to call the waiter back a few times to order drinks, fix our unsteady table and inquire about our dishes. Two of us had been served a glass of wine, but waited for our dishes so as to drink them along with the food. It turned out that, after one hour, when we should have already left for our appointment, we had not drunk our wine glasses, our dishes had not been served, the swinging table had not been fixed and not even a little bread basket had been offered us. At this point, we had requested our orders to be canceled and had asked for the bill. Since we had only had 2 glasses of wine and 2 small bottles of water, I had expected that the management would offer them to us as a courtesy. Instead, I was appalled to see that, for all that inconvenience, and instead of apologies, we were given a bill of R$ 81,00. For each glass of an ordinary red wine with almost no personality, we were charged R$ 35,00 (US$ 9,38 plus service), which seemed excessive. The total amount was payed for in cash, and the waiter still brought us the wrong change, as if the amount of the bill had been R$ 10,00 higher. It was a real disaster. In the end, I could not express to our colleagues how ashamed, disappointed and embarrassed I felt with this type of hospitality, which is, by no means, common in Brasília.…