/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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But those are pretty rare, other than the places owned by Arabs and Mexicans and that sort of thing. "Local" midwesterners by and large are distrustful of places that don't have at least a half dozen locations in the area. Look at what happened when Jean-Georges Vongerichten tried to open a spot in Minneapolis. Shuttered within a year because in the minds of locals, high end restaurants ought to serve prime rib, mash, and maybe some fine imported beers like Becks or perhaps a grasshopper, like I saw Frank Sinatra drinking one time in a documentary about Las Vegas.

Exact same thing happened to Marcus Samuelsson although I think that was largely race related (I mean you can understand their shock and confusion when a guy with a last name like that turns out to look like pic related and STILL has the temerity to charge $100+ for dinner)