yep it's the silicone table cloth. Grant has said that it was an accident. They didn't know it owuld do that. But for some reason the molecular structure of that particular sauce, it's viscosity, and other properties takes the shape of the silicone cloth which is made up of squares. real cool, still. Crazy though...his other sauces don't do that. It's all about the specific molecular interaction.
although i found the meal as a whole a bit pretentious (especially the dish served exclusively on spoons and forks) the ending was absolutely astounding. The shock of the "pinata" was genius and the silicone mat with the square sauces was brilliant.
That's a matter of opinion. You could also say not caring about presentation or not having a back story is lazy. The idea is to enhance your dining experience.
roger hermite The silicon mat is striated if the sauce is very fluid it forms circles , if it is a bit thick it follows the striations and thus flows to make squares
Honestly the menu presentation is over the top I came to check it out and seriously no just no,especially the venison dish is about to collapse, the ginger bites, as well the scatter canapé spoons.. You get the point.. But it should taste good at least
One of the best meals I ever had was at Chez Panisse. Part of the dessert course was fresh clementines, served on the branch the chefs had literally just cut off a clementine tree in the back of the restaurant - totally bad ass, in your face, this-is-just-really-good-food-and-it-speaks-for-itself. I understand Grant is amazingly creative and wants to make a whole experience for the diner, but when he smashed that chocolate pinata into a mess on the table I had to just slap my forehead.
What bullshit. Pretensions food. Way too over the top. The flavor pairings are amazing I am sure but what's up with the hacking down primals with hatchets. Where is the soul? See magnus nilsson.
Gabi Perez Food is art but not like this. don't you think it's crazy to spend an awful lot of money in a restaurant only to listen to someone lecturing and telling you how to eat. A little table presentation is always great but this has reached the irritating level. Imagine bringing your date there, you can't speak and enjoy your time there because that pretentious dude won't shut the hell up.
If the waiter stood by me and presented a 3 minute story and backstory of each dish for 4-6 hours I'd be really irritated. It would end up like work or class. I understand Americans love an origin story and things that market a dish/restaurant/brand better but there is a limit, Jesus.
How ridiculously pretentious is this guy? "feel free to move it toward you"? Yeah, I think I'll feel free do whatever I want. Oh, permission to move the plate herr waiter. Theses guys are great at making not so complex stuff sounds like rocket science.
yep it's the silicone table cloth. Grant has said that it was an accident. They didn't know it owuld do that. But for some reason the molecular structure of that particular sauce, it's viscosity, and other properties takes the shape of the silicone cloth which is made up of squares.
real cool, still.
Crazy though...his other sauces don't do that. It's all about the specific molecular interaction.
although i found the meal as a whole a bit pretentious (especially the dish served exclusively on spoons and forks) the ending was absolutely astounding. The shock of the "pinata" was genius and the silicone mat with the square sauces was brilliant.
That's cool how they made dashi stock with a siphon filter.
That's a matter of opinion. You could also say not caring about presentation or not having a back story is lazy. The idea is to enhance your dining experience.
ok so it all looks really amazing .. does it taste amazing too ?
I get they want to do something different and taste is very good...but dude...the amount of food is like the amount i eat WHILE i prepare my food.
Except the pinata thing...that was just insane ;)
That's because its a 21 course meal.
Oh daym...sign me up then !
Btw, you really are a cool guy XD
emiN roblack Lol
Not exactly the kinda place that wants to get you full and get a to go box for your leftovers
I want to know how he does the squares??!
Love it!!!
Can some one explain to me how the sauce turned into squares with the dark chocolate ball
they dont know why yet as far as i know
roger hermite The silicon mat is striated if the sauce is very fluid it forms circles , if it is a bit thick it follows the striations and thus flows to make squares
Oh my god lol "piñata" BAM
Honestly the menu presentation is over the top I came to check it out and seriously no just no,especially the venison dish is about to collapse, the ginger bites, as well the scatter canapé spoons.. You get the point.. But it should taste good at least
One of the best meals I ever had was at Chez Panisse. Part of the dessert course was fresh clementines, served on the branch the chefs had literally just cut off a clementine tree in the back of the restaurant - totally bad ass, in your face, this-is-just-really-good-food-and-it-speaks-for-itself. I understand Grant is amazingly creative and wants to make a whole experience for the diner, but when he smashed that chocolate pinata into a mess on the table I had to just slap my forehead.
wheres the food?
I'm sure this is just for this video.
This reminds me of the nouvelle cuisine of the eighties.And not in a good way.......
Although like that guy below said, this comes across a bit pretentious too.
Although most likely delicious, presentation and back stories are very pretentious and kinda ridiculous.
What bullshit. Pretensions food. Way too over the top. The flavor pairings are amazing I am sure but what's up with the hacking down primals with hatchets. Where is the soul? See magnus nilsson.
Art, buddy.
Gabi Perez i feel like that's just an excuse to charge a shit load and bring slight solace to the fools that eat there...
Gabi Perez Food is art but not like this. don't you think it's crazy to spend an awful lot of money in a restaurant only to listen to someone lecturing and telling you how to eat. A little table presentation is always great but this has reached the irritating level. Imagine bringing your date there, you can't speak and enjoy your time there because that pretentious dude won't shut the hell up.
the owner is so pretentious he mentioned "other three star restaurants" like three times
honestly he has every right to be pretentious. Alinea is ranked 14 in the world's top restaurant. If you got that achievement you can be too
look up the definition of pretentious. this is one of the highest-rated restaurants in the world on a consistent basis....
If the waiter stood by me and presented a 3 minute story and backstory of each dish for 4-6 hours I'd be really irritated. It would end up like work or class.
I understand Americans love an origin story and things that market a dish/restaurant/brand better but there is a limit, Jesus.
Pretentious twaddle. A distillation of abstracted emptiness characteristic of the modern ethos. Bah humbug!
How ridiculously pretentious is this guy? "feel free to move it toward you"? Yeah, I think I'll feel free do whatever I want. Oh, permission to move the plate herr waiter. Theses guys are great at making not so complex stuff sounds like rocket science.