Fine Dining RIPOFF tactics. I am so sick of this!

[Joelist]

I have had the opportunity to see good Executive Chefs at work and also bad ones.

For example a dish like meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans. It was done up to look very nice (in fact the meatloaf was presented as a sphere) and everything tasted good as the food was all properly prepared. In fact the blend in the meatloaf was different but good.

On the other hand I had a French chicken dish where the Chef was into fru fru - it looked pretty but tasted like garbage. Chicken was way over cooked and the veggies were basically mush.

 

[Lord Ba'al]

The little place we ate at in Long Beach (Lola's) is packed almost every weekend, and I still don't understand why. There is another restaurant across the street called The Social List which is owned by the same people. I think that because it is in "Retro Row" and there is a heavy gay patronage from South Alamitos' gay community, they can get away with $12.00 hamburgers and $10.00 shrimp cocktail. I don't eat on Retro Row at all. I cook like...98% of every meal I eat.

12 Bucks for a hamburger is pretty normal around here, even a bit of the cheap side actually. Here you generally pay around 12 pounds for a burger or more. I personally don't find it worth the money. Sure, the burgers are better than McDonalds' burgers usually, but I think I'd still rather get two double cheeseburgers for 3 pounds total.

Here's a dish I made myself tonight by the way, I call it Pasta Vindaloo Parmesan with Balls.

It was "sweat on your forehead" grade spicy.

Basically I just cooked some pasta, heated up my left over Indian sauce in the microwave, put some herbs and spices on a pack of pre-made meatballs and cooked them in the oven and grated some parmesan. Super tasty, that it was.

 

[Overmind One]

12 Bucks for a hamburger is pretty normal around here, even a bit of the cheap side actually. Here you generally pay around 12 pounds for a burger or more. I personally don't find it worth the money. Sure, the burgers are better than McDonalds' burgers usually, but I think I'd still rather get two double cheeseburgers for 3 pounds total.

Here's a dish I made myself tonight by the way, I call it Pasta Vindaloo Parmesan with Balls.

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It was "sweat on your forehead" grade spicy.

Basically I just cooked some pasta, heated up my left over Indian sauce in the microwave, put some herbs and spices on a pack of pre-made meatballs and cooked them in the oven and grated some parmesan. Super tasty, that it was.

Looks delicious! Filling. Time to start contributing to the Recipes thread again...