Hilarious restaurant review (and response from the chef)

[dolorosa_12]

Some of you may have seen this review of a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant, which was going viral on several of my social media platforms yesterday.

Now, I'm a food snob, and have eaten at several of this type of restaurant — the kind where you get multiple smaller courses, rather than a substantial main course, and where everything is matched to wine pairings and so on. But on every such occasion, the food was excellent, the staff were professional and helpful, there was an actual menu (and people were clear about allergies and dietary requirements), and I left feeling full. This restaurant — at least on the occasion when the reviewer and her friends dined there — is like a bad parody of this type of fine dining, and the review is hilarious.

And, like the icing on the cake, the chef has posted his response (towards the bottom of this article), and it just adds to the utter absurdity.

Comments

[kore]

THE HORSE PAINTINGS Was that last one some kind of abstract classic I don't know or like the scribblings of a five-year-old child??

"WHAT IF FOOD"

[corvidology]

... I think I know what those meat droplets were made from...

[dolorosa_12]

I got to the horse paintings and just about died of laughter.

[myrdschaem]

Following that has been an absolute delight! I think some fancy molecular dining would be fun, but it's also something where I would 100% plan to go to a fast food place before or after. They are more about the ambitious form than anything else. But the head chef being so obnoxious just really hammered down this particular restaurant and it keeps on giving as a story!

What if food indeed.

[dolorosa_12]

It's one of those stories where it just got wilder with every sentence, and as soon as the chef weighed in things became completely ridiculous. If it had just been someone complaining about small portions, it wouldn't have been as funny — it's the pretentious obliviousness of the chef that makes it so hilarious. It's my favourite kind of internet drama — low stakes, but being treated like super serious business.

[myrdschaem]

It is! There is no real world bad besides a pretentious douche and ultimately it's something to laugh at even for the people who lived through it. It's the best!

[lirazel]

YES. (Also the fact that this dude doesn't understand that food is actually substantially different than art and that most people want things that taste good and that's not just because we're all philistines.)

[rachelmanija]

Is a plaster cast of the chef's mouth full of foam art though.

[dolorosa_12]

I got to that point of the review and just lost it. The whole restaurant seems like a bad parody of pretentious expensive tasting menus.

[isis]

HORSE DRAWINGS HOLY SHIT HEEE.

(My one experience at a Michelin-starred restaurant, in Spain, was superb: the food was amazing, when I didn't care for one dish they immediately offered me alternatives, and the service was the best I have had anywhere.)

[dolorosa_12]

Isn't it just the funniest thing?

My one experience at a Michelin-starred restaurant, in Spain, was superb: the food was amazing, when I didn't care for one dish they immediately offered me alternatives, and the service was the best I have had anywhere.

Same — I've been to a Michelin-starred restaurant in Prague, and twice in the UK, and my experience was the same as yours. The servings were generally just a couple of mouthfuls, but there were ... well, carbs, so by the end of each meal I was as full as if I had eaten a single filled plate of a generously-sized main course. Certainly not just shots of vinegar and cuttlefish ice-cream!

[likeadeuce]

I love it.

[dolorosa_12]

Isn't it just hilarious?

[corvidology]

Like you, I've enjoyed several of these types of meals but they were never this much of a joke.

I mean, this meal reads like a Monty Python sketch. At least we all got a laugh out of it. :D

[dolorosa_12]

Oh indeed — I laughed the hardest I've laughed in ages.

[trepkos]

Thanks for this - incredible!

[dolorosa_12]

Always happy to give everyone a good laugh!