IanWorst Dining Trends
November 18th 2009 01:14
Like fashion, dining changes with the times, ebbing and flowing with new ideas as chefs and restaurant owners try to stand out from the crowd.
Depending on your opinion, some new dining trends in recent years may have been less than appealing. Sometimes a new trend will start out OK, but become overdone, while others are simply a bad idea from the start.
The Chicago Tribune asked top Chefs what they thought were the worst dining trends of the last decade. The results are below. Read the full article here.
Not just at establishments sporting Beard awards and gravitas. At your neighbourhood bistro. Enough.
Carl's Jr.'s Big Carl burger (920 calories). Hardee's Monster Thickburger (1,420 calories). KFC's Double Down (bacon and cheese between fillets of fried chicken serving as bread). The entire menu at the Heart Attack Grill? A dare? A brazen red-state response to blue-state delicateness? The genius was to market them not as mere meals but extensions of your civil rights.
They cook, of course. They also sell shoes and star in reality shows. Sometimes they cook. Rocco Di- Spirito, a middecade pan flash, is arguably the finest example. "There are celebrity chefs who manage to stay chefs and run excellent restaurants," said Zagat, "but there are times when you wonder what a chef is supposed to be doing. TV brings people into their restaurant. But when do they find time to cook?"
Said Michael Schwartz, the chef/owner of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami: the communal table "assumes people who don't know each other want to sit together."
Extreme Yelpers and likewise. "In particular, the opening-night blog reviewers," said Don Lindgren, co-owner of Rabelais, a food-centric bookstore in Portland, Maine. "You can't judge a restaurant from its opening night. It may be exciting to be there early. But to review it based on that first day is crazy and wrong."
Depending on your opinion, some new dining trends in recent years may have been less than appealing. Sometimes a new trend will start out OK, but become overdone, while others are simply a bad idea from the start.
The Chicago Tribune asked top Chefs what they thought were the worst dining trends of the last decade. The results are below. Read the full article here.
The $40 entree
Proudly obnoxious fast food options
The chef as media whore
The communal table
Knee-jerk online reviews
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