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The (IMO) best restaurant in my town has a small chalkboard as the menu with these three items on it: 10 15 18 These are the prices for the three portio

The (IMO) best restaurant in my town has a small chalkboard as the menu with these three items on it: 10 15 18 These are the prices for the three portion sizes. The chef makes what he makes.

gruez 6y ago
That seems a bit too simplistic. How much bigger is the 18 portion size compared to 10? Are you getting the same dish, just scaled up, or is it a different dish?
- bigtech 6y ago
  Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?
- bborud 6y ago
  Perhaps, but very effective. Most good restaurants I’ve been to don’t actually have a menu you choose from - you get what’s seasonal and what the kitchen has planned for. The only real inputs are how much you are going to eat and how drunk you want to be at the end of it. I’ve been to one restaurant in the lower price range that also adopted this concept, though with a twist. There’s not really a menu to choose from, you get what you get, but the waiter will update the blackboard with “what you get if you order now”. The reason I prefer this is because it tends to focus on what’s seasonal and what is the chef good at.
  - selimthegrim 5y ago
    My favorite chef in New Orleans releases the menu online each day for the upcoming evening (sometimes the day before) but you don't see the prices until you get there and the dishes are first come first serve (he makes a fixed amount)
- Freak_NL 6y ago
  You could just ask of course.
selimthegrim 5y ago
This reminds me of the time I went looking for a Somali restaurant in Minneapolis (this was 2007 or so, right when the Grindhouse double feature had been released) I finally found a place and poked my head in. A bunch of old bearded Somali men in skullcaps all turned and stared at me and Al Jazeera was on in the corner. No menu was visible so I approached the counter and asked the man behind it what was for lunch. He responded, “Goat.” I replied, “Can you be more specific?” He replied again “Goat.” but added “$8”
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The (IMO) best restaurant in my town has a small chalkboard as the menu with these three items on it: 10 15 18 These are the prices for the three portion sizes. The chef makes what he makes.

gruez 6y ago

That seems a bit too simplistic. How much bigger is the 18 portion size compared to 10? Are you getting the same dish, just scaled up, or is it a different dish?

bigtech 6y ago
Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?
bborud 6y ago
Perhaps, but very effective. Most good restaurants I’ve been to don’t actually have a menu you choose from - you get what’s seasonal and what the kitchen has planned for. The only real inputs are how much you are going to eat and how drunk you want to be at the end of it. I’ve been to one restaurant in the lower price range that also adopted this concept, though with a twist. There’s not really a menu to choose from, you get what you get, but the waiter will update the blackboard with “what you get if you order now”. The reason I prefer this is because it tends to focus on what’s seasonal and what is the chef good at.
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  My favorite chef in New Orleans releases the menu online each day for the upcoming evening (sometimes the day before) but you don't see the prices until you get there and the dishes are first come first serve (he makes a fixed amount)
Freak_NL 6y ago
You could just ask of course.

selimthegrim 5y ago

This reminds me of the time I went looking for a Somali restaurant in Minneapolis (this was 2007 or so, right when the Grindhouse double feature had been released) I finally found a place and poked my head in. A bunch of old bearded Somali men in skullcaps all turned and stared at me and Al Jazeera was on in the corner. No menu was visible so I approached the counter and asked the man behind it what was for lunch. He responded, “Goat.” I replied, “Can you be more specific?” He replied again “Goat.” but added “$8”

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