/ck/ - Food & Cooking

without wine you can get a meal like that for 50 bucks or less

try lunch specials

>>12546101
>allah cart

>>12546101
>allah cart

If you're hungry basic foods will result in maximal amount of dopamine being released.
Billionaires eat fast food and enjoy it just fine.
You have to offset the cost some othe way, like social benefit or taking it as a life experience or something to calibrate your world view.

>>12546101
best meal ive ever had was like a 50$ filet and lobster mac and cheese at this chophouse in my city. it was good but it wasnt this boujee shit where every plate is a bite of food. id have to eat a fuckin tbone and half a loaf of bread before hand just to not leave pissed the fuck off and starving. these meal services can take hours too, even if i went there not hungry by the end id probably still fuckin be hungry. starting to think this fine dining shit is a combination of lying to yourself and having the disposable income a 100$+ snack is not even remotely a concern

>>12546272
That's exactly what I was thinking.
It's like when people look at modern art of some dyke with shaved armpits and her fist up her arse and labelling it some shit like "Arrogance" and metropolitan hipsters praise it like it's the Mona Lisa.

I think people lie to themselves for the sake of trying to gain access to the prestigious pretentious club.

>>12546101
Fucking allah cart

>>12546272
oh no, please don't tell me "boujee" is some faggot american way of saying "bourgeois"

>>12546319
Your insecurity is showing
>>12546343
I think it's a black thing

>>12546345
but is that what it's supposed to mean? bourgeois?

>>12546343
its a nigger way of saying bourgeois, they actually think thats how its pronounced. i like it though it makes me think of what some wealthy american black queen type chick would think of as high class

>>12546349
What else would it mean? Beaujolais? Bogie? Boogie? Boogers? Context cues are everything, anon.

>>12546349
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sJp1FfG7Q

>>12546272
who wouldve thought that fine dining is about the taste of the food and not the quantity

>>12546357
well obviously that was my best guess but i still wanted to make sure because it's so retarded
>>12546359
lol

>>12546362
because becoming 'not-hungry' is probably the most important function of the process of eating you fucking retard. i cannot understand why this part is ignored. the ego of these chefs is so insanely high they genuinely believe their food is so good that its worth ignoring the entire point of fucking eating food. thats why i respect chefs like gordon ramsay, hes a fuckin fag but atleast he serves portions of meat that wont leave you hungry after spending 200 fucking dollars.

>>12546272
any multiple course pre fixe is almost always designed for normal guests to be full after eating everything you fat and poor fuck. in my experience some weeb dinners are specifically designed for you to be not overly full but just content, that's the only time I can think of where I wasn't completely full

>>12546101
I think it's helpful to think of fine dining more as entertainment than sustenance. That's not to say it isn't nourishing but you're not really paying to get full like you are when you go to a greasy spoon for a slop o shit. Also ratatouille is a peasant dish you could easily make at home for less than 5 dollars

>>12546404
i am fat and poor
fuck you

>>12546437
Fuck poor people lol

>>12546378
>becoming 'not-hungry' is probably the most important function of the process of eating you fucking retard
Not when you’re at a fine dining restaurant you fucking retard. The most important function when you’re at fine dining restaurant is enjoyment, pleasure, appreciation. Filling you up is a fucking low bar to clear and these restaurants have no interest in pandering to your bias that the best plate of food is one with more than enough slop to sustain three people strewn atop it

>>12546437
at least you admit it unlike the other "if its not a slop o' shit on plate for $10 its not real food" posters

>>12546357
Bougie is actually French for "candle".
As to answer OP yeah and it's rather 7 course meals not 3 course ones and unless you take some wine it can be less than 100€ per person. We don't have to tip 500% here though. If you think you're gonna eat wellington or plain foie gras at a gastro restaurant you're mistaken though.

>>12546449

I'm not going to get enjoyment or pleasure if I can't get full. Simple food is almost always better.

>>12546378
Mate, fine dining establishments do not leave you hungry. 6-12 dishes and a bottle of Wine easily give you 1500-2000 kcal of food

Also
> I cannot believe
aight m8, eat your grub

>>12546437
That's why fine dining seems pretentious to you. It would be pretentious for you to eat like that because it's not meant for people of your social class.

>>12546101
Lamo
I just dropped $600 usd pp on a meal the other day, it’s sad you’ve never had the pleasure. Seems that you never will with that mindset. For the poor man, think weed high but while sober. That’s the level of food. And impeccable service.

>>12546901
They proofed the bread table side. Seasonal fruit. Then it was baked with hot stones and served with a butter rolled in a concentrated powder to resemble moss. Really good bread.

>>12546101
>sorbet
>fine dining
you seem really out of touch. fine dining is not so much about the food itself but the experience and service.the food is generally excellent but also meant to be prepared in exciting and interesting ways. beef wellington and ratatouille are not interesting dishes.
last year at alinea one of the course was a server came tableside with a cart. there was a flaming bucket of salt on the table that had acted as a torch, it had been put out by a juniper branch in a previous course. the server pulls a potato out of the bucket of salt. it had been cooking in there! then he makes a deconstructed clam chowder with that, vegetables and spices, and a clam chowder foam. it tasted amazing too. some of the things they do are kind of corny though

>>12546101
>allah cart
Lol
The term you're looking for is a la carte, which is a style of service rather than a dish. Most 'normal' restaurants do a la carte service, where you pick what you want off a menu and get charged for each individual dish you order. The alternative is prix fixe, where you pay a set price for the whole meal of however many courses.

$200 for 3 courses is quite steep even for michelin starred restaurants. For example, a 12 course dinner at Blackbird, a michelin starred restaurant in Chicago, is $150, and a 9 course menu at Le Bernardin, a 3 star restaurant in New York, is $225.

Imo these meals are generally very worth it if you have an interest in that style of food. It's also really not insanely expensive- the profit margins in really upscale restaurants are actually really thin. Tons of expensive high-quality ingredients, essentially no bulk purchasing- often new deliveries of all proteins and produce every single day- and TONS of skilled labor involved. You're getting 6, 10, even 15 courses, each with many intricate components that take a lot of prep time and require a lot of hands both during prep and service. In a chain restaurant where prep is minimal and service is mostly reheating, they can run the kitchen with very few cooks, which saves labor cost. In some extremely high end restaurants, in order to put out the food they do, there can be as many or more cooks as guests. Fine dining isn't the rip off a lot of people here seem to think it is- while it is expensive, it's actually a way better deal than going to a shit tier chain, because the latter is making waaaaay more profit off you.

>>12546952
this