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"At Alinea, there aren't any à la carte dishes; instead you feast on the restaurant's 22-course tasting menu, which costs between $210 and $265 per person, depe
by 0xbear 9y ago
"At Alinea, there aren't any à la carte dishes; instead you feast on the restaurant's 22-course tasting menu, which costs between $210 and $265 per person, depending on the day. Additional wine pairings range from the standard $135 per person to $195 for the reserved pairing, which features rare pours."
Which kind of perfectly follows the description. 300 dollars per person, show with minuscule quantities of food.
- mathw 9y agoWhen there are 22 courses, you don't want each one to be very big or you'll never get to the end of it.
- Factory 9y agoFine dining generally has small portions, but there tend to be many courses and they really like to use meat so it actually adds up to a very substantial meal. If you ever go to one pace yourself, otherwise the last few courses will be quite unpleasant.
- 0xbear 9y agoI've been to some restaurants with crazy number of courses. Last time I went I got to gorge on a steak that was significantly smaller than a matchbox. Honestly, the only good thing about these restaurants were wine pairings.
- 2muchcoffeeman 9y agoYour criticism is like saying a programmer is bad because they didn't solve the problem you're interested in when it's not their job to solve your problem, and they didn't use enough lines of code to do it. Haute cuisine has always seemed highly experimental to me. And I think that's the point. To find new ways to cook food. Often in ways that are extremely impractical. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Some people enjoy the weird, others don't. But to say that these chefs aren't driven by taste or that the prices are set that way so that their customers can boast? You must be a troll. If you don't like them so much. Stop going to them!
- thebooktocome 9y agoThen save your 300USD and buy a month's worth of Soylent. I'll gladly eat tasty food in your absence. :)
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- Broken_Hippo 9y agoHow do you figure that 22 courses is a minuscule amount of food? Sure, since it is a tasting menu, the portions of each course are going to be smaller than if you ordered them in a non-tasting course. Overall, though, that's 22 different foods. This will probably take at least 1.5 to 2 hours for the eating, so it'll seem like more. Plus wine, if you should choose it. Additionally, I'm pretty sure some of the dining is the experience itself - at least for most of us, who rarely spend $300 on a group for dinner, let alone on one person. And it'll probably be a bit better than fast food. Besides, you can easily do things like have dessert, a bedtime snack, eat a quality breakfast and/or lunch. Or, you know, spend your money on something more fitting to you. Edit: Forgot a line.