Pretentious food/ways to present food...

Nibble · Mar 12, 2015

These will take some beating but what's the most ludicrous way you have been served food? I got served pizza on a frisbee in Dusseldorf.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/what-do-we-want-plates-when-do-we-want-them-now

Hillian1 · Mar 12, 2015

On a plank of wood ffs.

Ridiculous.

mikeyjh · Mar 12, 2015

Hillian1 said:
On a plank of wood ffs.

Ridiculous.

100% this - Teddies in SBS serve breakfast on a plank, generously priced at a tenner......

Badger · Mar 12, 2015

I had the "burger on a wooden chopping board" experience recently, in the Nelson on Trafalgar Street. I think the chips came in a miniature bucket too (whoever makes them must be RAKING it in from "trendy" pubs).

I also had food served on a SLATE once, I can't remember where it was though.

Shatner's Bassoon · Mar 12, 2015

Got served a meal on a slate in London once. It didn't help us to commune in pleasancy.

Thunder Bolt · Mar 12, 2015

I wonder about the hygiene when food is served on wood or slate. At least with plates, you know they should have gone through a very hot dishwasher.

I hate when food is served in a tower, ie each ingredient piled on top of the other. It's another way of serving very small portions for the same price as a regular meal.

Icy Gull · Mar 12, 2015

A smear across the plate which looks as though somebody has run their tongue over your plate, doubt you can get more pretentious than that. Although Heston Blumenthal giving you a set of headphones so that you can eat listening to the sounds he thinks enhance your food also takes some beating, as well as being ****ing unsociable.

brightn'ove · Mar 12, 2015

Icy Gull said:
A smear across the plate which looks as though somebody has run their tongue over your plate, doubt you can get more pretentious than that.

backson · Mar 12, 2015

I'm always intrigued by new ways of serving chips with a meal, the fashion is to be in some kind of side container, like a wire basket or something.

Tudor Lodge in Ferring serves them in a used tin can. Strange, but to be fair it kept them nice and warm.

backson · Mar 12, 2015

And slates can f--k right off, especially with cutlery, it's like nails down a blackboard.

beorhthelm · Mar 12, 2015

what is wrong with these places. i can just about accept the wood board, but as we see its the thin end of the wedge opening up a world of tarty bollocks.

brightn'ove · Mar 12, 2015

Mustafa said:
This comes as one of 3 courses at £175 pp at The Square, Mayfair.

I'd literally gobble it up in one bite and feel extremely disappointed afterwards.

What are you complaining about? You get a healthy portion of SIX grains of rice!

The Large One · Mar 12, 2015

I feel someone, some day, is going to have to explain the word 'trendy' to me. Seems such a meaningless word.

Badger · Mar 12, 2015

Mustafa said:
This comes as one of 3 courses at £175 pp at The Square, Mayfair.

I'd literally gobble it up in one bite and feel extremely disappointed afterwards.

I'd probably sit there waiting for them to bring the vegetables round.

mikeyjh · Mar 12, 2015

brightn'ove said:
What are you complaining about? You get a healthy portion of SIX grains of rice!

Rice? No. That's a confit of albiono rat droppings.

Bozza · Mar 12, 2015

Mustafa said:
This comes as one of 3 courses at £175 pp at The Square, Mayfair.

I'd literally gobble it up in one bite and feel extremely disappointed afterwards.

Three courses are £90 at The Square.

The tasting menu is 9 courses for £115, or £185 with wine pairings.

Badger · Mar 12, 2015

mikeyjh said:
Rice? No. That's a confit of albiono rat droppings.

Indeed, and that's not sauce it's "jus" (calling it this entitles you to charge three times as much).

pasty · Mar 12, 2015

backson said:
I'm always intrigued by new ways of serving chips with a meal, the fashion is to be in some kind of side container, like a wire basket or something.

Tudor Lodge in Ferring serves them in a used tin can. Strange, but to be fair it kept them nice and warm.

The only acceptable occasion of serving an item in a separate container is with a full english, serving the baked beans in a ramekin, thus avoiding the tomato sauce/egg yolk mix.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Mar 12, 2015

pasty said:
The only acceptable occasion of serving an item in a separate container is with a full english, serving the baked beans in a ramekin, thus avoiding the tomato sauce/egg yolk mix.

Sorry, epic fail, 'ramekin' sounds like something an elf or pixie would eat out of. Has no business being linked with the honest unpretentious baked bean.

pasty · Mar 12, 2015

Tom Hark said:
Sorry, epic fail, 'ramekin' sounds like something an elf or pixie would eat out of. Has no business being linked with the honest unpretentious baked bean.

You're absolutely right, sorry, so middle class of me. :lolol:

The only acceptable occasion of serving an item in a separate container is with a full english, serving the baked beans in a dish, thus avoiding the tomato sauce/egg yolk mix.

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