Another high end SF restaurant is closing (Aphotic), and while I think they had a good run, I don’t think they were worth $400pp.
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@skinnylatte this sounds a lot like the high-end chef in Portland who opened a lasagna shop out of his home kitchen
one lasagna once a week, take-out reservations only
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@skinnylatte I bet he would love that! Now if only there were a "high end Chinese restaurant" in Phoenix…
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@kf I would like that
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@gglockner London, Toronto, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, mostly maybe even San Gabriel Valley but with caveats. Gotta be a place with lots of Chinese business people who like great Chinese food and good wine
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@gglockner @skinnylatte Bistro Na's in SGV (SoCal) is pretty good! In case either of you find yourselves in that area.
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@skinnylatte happy birthday!
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@skinnylatte it's interesting because I agree that SF's high end dining has really kind of blanded out... it's generally uninteresting and not a great experience and expensive to boot. But New York hasn't had the same problem -- like I ate at bōm back in August (high end Korean with French techniques) and it was *excellent*. Interesting and delicious. Lots of unusual fermentation which I loved. And a killer non-alcoholic pairing.
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@skinnylatte I wish I'd succeeded at El Bulli. But now is now and that was then.
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@samantha @gglockner yay thank you!
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Paul Lalonde last edited by [email protected]
@Flux I got a table just in time for my college ‘grad trip’. It was fun. Not sure it would be for me now, but I also remember it being vastly cheaper than some of these mediocre restaurants here I’m talking about
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Samantha last edited by [email protected]
@samantha I think the only places in sf that sound close to that are Ssal and Benu, and I don’t know that I would do that.
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@skinnylatte Adria was adamant about keeping a seat to 200euro to keep the experience accessible. But with only 8000 seatings a year...
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@Flux the surprising thing about eating in Spain (after spending all my money at El Bulli) is discovering that lunch at most nice restaurants was a flat EUR 10-20
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@skinnylatte it may just because I grew up poor, and seem to be whatever the opposite of a supertaster is (undertaster?), but high dining has never appealed to my #actuallyautistic palette.
I feel envy at some “rich people” experiences. But… never fancy food. I want to eat what people eat, I don’t want to eat food that can only exist if we have too many rich people around