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Thread by popular demand. This thread is for those posts when only acting like a bellend and taking photos in a Michelin starred restaurant will do or trying to recreate it at home with your endless array of weird shaped plates, spots of sauce, skid marks of sauce across the plate, single grains and micro greens and portion sizes for ants etc 
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Obi Wan said:
I ve never gone to a fine dining restaurant but does all that fill you up and what s the last dish?
My experience is that the answer to that is, it depends.At the really established ones like Ramsay hospital Road I would say yes whilst at some of the others, in my experience at a lower price point maybe not.
The difference is that in the best places alongside the advertised tasting menu there will be a number of small things delivered as the meal progresses and you don t get this everywhere. The courses also tend to be richer than you get at a normal restaurant and richness is more filling
Also, if your experience of eating out is going to a toby cavery and filling a plate jenga style, Indian restaurants with sides, bread and rice for everyone kind of places then no it won t fill you up. The take away thread and people talking about two double muffins and hash browns from McDonald s on tbe breakfast thread as if it s a meal for one suggests there are many people on PH that are seriously overeating. If you re a normal sized portion three meals a day type then it will generally fill you.
It s an unusual way of eating if you re not used to it for sure. If you are not sure if you would enjoy something like that the my advice would be to try somewhere like Six at Nico that will give you some of the experience without whacking your wallet. Some of what the do is quite good for what it is.
Edited by craigjm on Tuesday 23 December 15:48
Back in the 80's I was with a party of people that took a large client (we handled the imports for a large, well known Home Shopping Catalogue)
We were told that we were going for a Nouvelle Cuisine Meal, when it was very trendy and I was convinced that we would be going to McDonalds either on the way there, or home, but it could not have been further from the truth.
The food was very dainty on little plates, but there were a LOT or courses.
My biggest memory though, was getting absolutely sh1faced on Red Wine, with zero after effects the following morning.
I guess you get what you pay for.
We were told that we were going for a Nouvelle Cuisine Meal, when it was very trendy and I was convinced that we would be going to McDonalds either on the way there, or home, but it could not have been further from the truth.
The food was very dainty on little plates, but there were a LOT or courses.
My biggest memory though, was getting absolutely sh1faced on Red Wine, with zero after effects the following morning.
I guess you get what you pay for.
This thread is exactly the right level of commitment to both fine dining and taking it far too seriously. The plating game in good UK restaurants has genuinely improved over the past five years though — there's much less of the 1990s 'tower of food' nonsense and more confident, simpler presentation that actually suits the camera. Though nothing beats the theatrical absurdity of a restaurant that serves bread in a miniature cast iron pan or dessert on a piece of slate with a drizzle of 'sea foam'.
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