Seriously though, what 's the point of restaurants like this?
>>21948385this may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone just horks down gobbs of cheap food. some people like to eat the best food, and different types.
It’s a bit lame how they all use that same minimalist Star Trek space dinner plating style.
>>21948385Sometimes it's a nice change up to try different foods. Especially if you're not lacking in funds.
>>21948385>restaurantsthat's just your house
>>21948385Restaurants are an experience. You'd know this is you had a conception of one without the "fast food" prefix.
Rich people think they are better than non rich people so they flaunt how they can spend money on garbage and act like it's amazing.
>>21948385restaurants like these serve multiple courses, you get served several plates like this. you're not leaving hungry. the point is to experience a variety of flavours and textures arranged artistically.
>>21948389>best food>fucking leavespick one, dummy.>>21948385it's to dunk on poors that will never even know you dunked on them.
>>21948448Insane poorfag cope.
>>21948385The point of these restaurants is to enrage the uncultured, as can be seen in this thread. Their tiny minds cannot comprehend that a reasonable amount of money doesn't equate to a mountain of food stacked upon their plates. They'll always lash out like toddlers because they'll never experience this genre of cuisine.
>>21948385they're not for you. just stop seething over it and move on.
>>21948385Pallet experience.
>>21948385To try many different courses of foods around that portion size that are made and presented in such a way as to contrast off each other and make it a continuously interesting and memorable experience. But you knew this already.
>>21948385To provide a different flavor profile from sysco sloppa.
>>21948385There are many suckers amongst the rich as well. They will spend lots of money on an intangible >>21948445 >>>>experience that may or may not add anything to the core value of food tasting good. It's a bit of an ego thing, knowing that you have the expendable cash to dump a middle class mortgage payment on the gussied up version of a basic human experience. It could be completely indistinguishable from something prepared by a chef with half the notoriety, but it still provides the consumer with the emotional boon of having done something exclusive that very few have the chance to. No matter what anyone tells you, having renowned chef Pierre Shidfart de la Cûm bring you some minimalist deconstructed steak diane in a dimly lit warehouse or whatever has no meaningful aesthetic value, it's a ritual of exclusion.
>>21948559fpbp
>>21948561why are you replying to yourself?
>>21948568I'm not faggot and I'm phone posting so you can't accuse me of being an element inspector either
>>21948653>samefag is an ESL phoneshitteryikes, even worse!
>>21948561what do you think fpbp means?
>>21948559>that may or may not add anything to the core value of food tasting good.If someone enjoys the variety and novelty then obviously it does add to the value of the meal for those people. Seeking out new experiences does not make a person a sucker, that is something everyone desires to differing extents.>gussied up version of a basic human experienceIf you have more than one type of plate in your cupboard then you gussy up your own basic human experience without needing to, just within your own particular means just like they do within their means, but biting that bullet is a no-no.
What an "artistic" plate of beef should look like.
>>21948494It’s really annoying to see as a fellow poorfag desuObviously yes, some rich people do that, but that’s not the basis of the fine dining industry. It’s high art, i can dig that>>21948559You sound more pretentious than the rich kids i know. Equally insufferable desu
>>21948660I accept your graceful concession.
>>21948711>muh pretensionI was talking about the psychological motivation behind enjoying high end restaurants that focus on creative presentation over technical culinary excellence. I wasn't making value judgements, I'm not an easily offended midwit like some of us in this very thread.
>>21948389You can make delicious high quality dishes without it being a handful of faggy looking crumbs of food served on some avant garde art piece of a plate. And I know your lying ass is aware of this but im taking the bait just so I have an opportunity to argue with a stranger on the internet.
>>21948732>creative presentation over culinary excellence as if they do not usually go hand in handThose dishes require a decently high baseline of culinary excellence to develop and reproduce to exacting standards, though. You can not enjoy the end product and still recognize that there is a lot of skill and effort put into the dishes themselves as well as their relationship with one another on a tasting menu.
>>21948792I mean on a price scale, I'm not sure how to put it. You can get food that is prepared as expertly as many of these minimalist food establishments for less money. I'm not saying that these restaurants are not quality food, but that their price has reached an approximate ceiling on quality food and they have shifted focus to presentation. They rely on novel expressions of the solved problem of food so that they may increase their price to levels that satisfy the spending urges of the 0.001% of elite diners.
it's the food equivalent of modern art or iphones. people realized that they couldn't distinguish themselves from the competition with nothing but food quality so they do retarded shit so they can market it as an "experience" or a "lifestyle" thing.
>>21948511?
>>21948717i accept you being a filthy turd worlder
Americans seething here, absolutely in a rage that not everyone is as classless as them. They're wearing it like a medal, as befits somebody with a mid-level 2 digit IQ.>god dayam faynceee
>>21948559>that may or may not add anything to the core value of food tasting good.Most food doesn't taste good; the average person subsists on stuff that's a step above gruel. The experience of eating a carefully cooked and plated meal in a comfortable setting is incomparable to the experience of chowing down a lukewarm McCumsock in your car on the way to work.
>>21948851Tell me you don't appreciate fine dining without telling me you don't appreciate fine dining. Which is fine; de gustibus non est disputandum, but at a certain point there is something to general aesthetic preferences, and while you may not value those as much, others do.Some of the best meals of my life have had dishes that look similar to OP's plate (early days at Le Pigeon in Oregon, for instance, had fantastic courses that didn't look all that dissimilar). On the other hand, some of the obsequious service expectations at 2+ michelin star level restaurants I've been to are tireseome and besides the point, though others get off on them. To each his own.
>>21948900>service expectations at 2+ michelin star level restaurants I've been to are tireseome and besides the pointare *to me* tiresome and besides the point
>>21948385It's something for poor people to spend money on so they can pretend they're rich because it looks fancyIt's the illusion of class that's important
>>21948907>I'm desperately trying to cope like a meek shrew and here's how...
>>21948732You’re not beating the pretentious charges with this>>21948792Exactly.>>21948851I don’t think you know much about about the cost of quality ingredients, the labor cost of people with the skills required, and the equipment to accomplish some of the more advanced presentations
>>21948910Exactly, it's cope for the middle class. It lets them pretend they're something they're not and the people selling them $2 worth of vegetables for $85 because it's served on a fancy plate can give them that experience
>>21948385when i go to a place like this i order a hamburger and fries with a diet coke
>>21948914The cost of some fag that knows how to plate sauce in an abstract pattern is high because of the fags willing to pay for it, not because it's some special skill. You could get mexicans doing it for 3 dollars an hour under a half competent head chef. In fact, I'm willing to bet that's actually what the back of most of these kitchens looks like.
>>21949315Oh yes, the skill that's important is the sauce plating, yess, indeed.
>>21948506lol, even Marco knows you're a rube for eating at these glorified appetizer places.
>>21949321Don't mind the poorfags with their cope-posts; they don't know any better and need to feel better about themselves. The really funny thing is that nearly all the great cuisines have their roots in poverty, but poorfags here today are more interested in resentiment and hating on fine dining (which is at its peak just playful expressions of simple foods elevated with creative thought and great technique) than they are in seeing the connection between foods they could make with enough thought and effort and the foods served at legitimately great fine dining restaurants.
>>21949420I don't, because I am a poorfag desu I paid my way through culinary school though, and can appreciate people who are more creative and talented than I am. Some people just can't! Which is really sad, I'll never understand crab-in-a-bucket types>>21949348Literal who?
>>21948385It gives the burger drive-thru more business as the diners get a burger on the drive home because their single bite of "high level" food didn't fill them up one bit.
>>21948385Richfags go out to eat for celebration or business. the food is secondary to the company or partythese people go to restaurants to talk about shit more than eating
>>21948389>some people like to eat the best foodwhich these places generally aren'tI've tried two Michelin-ranked ultra-fine-dining restaurants and neither were even remotely as good as a fucking Wendy's Baconator.One pureed everything into shot glasses and served something like 25 shot glasses of various things as their "experience".The other was just plain flavorless, with tiny portions, and cost 2X to 3X more than any other restaurant I ate at on that vacation. Like, your choice, do you want a nearly flavorless piece of fish tiny enough to hold in your clenched fist, but carefully decorated with leaves cut and arranged in the pattern of fish scales, arranged over a flavorless but bright green sauce, priced at $40, or do you want an enormous shawarma slathered with whatever sauce you choose, which tastes awesome and beefy and will fill you up for a whole day, priced at $12?
>>21951044>blah blah blah yada yada yada
>>21948385muh art. muh diner XP.muh tyres corpo tells me what to eat.>>21951046low quality shitpost
>>21948705post the pizza version of that.
>>21948385This looks great. What I take umbrage with is this overuse of FOAMS. Every generation has its clichés, but this one kind of offends me. Most applications were never half as good as they were novel and the novelty wore off 10 years ago.
>>21951044If you want to larp atleast get chatgpt to write it for you
to try stuff you will never cook yourself
