The bigger the menu in a restaurant, the worse the overall quality is going to be. They cannot keep enough fresh ingredients and train the chefs well enough to do all that cr#p well, so you end up with tons of prepared and frozen stuff thrown together.
#20 Understanding the steak has to do with people who have butchered many kinds of animals and has respect for what it takes to get a good size piece of muscle with a proper cross-grain cut and decent fat marbling. It's rare on an animal.
"Any restaurant where portion sizes get smaller as the price goes up is the very height of epicurean pretentiousness. Like if they actually serve you enough food to be satisfied, it might as well be McDonald’s."
The bigger the menu in a restaurant, the worse the overall quality is going to be. They cannot keep enough fresh ingredients and train the chefs well enough to do all that cr#p well, so you end up with tons of prepared and frozen stuff thrown together.
#20 Understanding the steak has to do with people who have butchered many kinds of animals and has respect for what it takes to get a good size piece of muscle with a proper cross-grain cut and decent fat marbling. It's rare on an animal.
A good steak, done correctly (medium rare or rare) is wonderful! Hardly a cult, though. Vegan or vegetarianism, now that is a cult!
The bigger the menu in a restaurant, the worse the overall quality is going to be. They cannot keep enough fresh ingredients and train the chefs well enough to do all that cr#p well, so you end up with tons of prepared and frozen stuff thrown together.
The Cheesecake Factory comes to mind with their 20 plus page menu
Wait'll you discover pie.
I'll have Chinese Chinese any day