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How the Minds Behind ‘The Menu’ Created an Authentic Fine Dining Hellscape

EATER

Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world’s creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. What was your experience with fine dining before working on this film?

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. How much effort is placed on the design of plated foods, the contrast and complement of colors, shapes, and assembly?

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Restaurant Design Tips

The Restaurant Group

Restaurant Design. While great food and customer service are essential for return business, the ambiance and restaurant design are equally as important. Your restaurant’s design sets the stage for a customer’s dining experience. Your restaurant’s design sets the stage for a customer’s dining experience.

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More French Food? Oui, Chef.

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Yes, Balthazar and Jean-George still thrive, but French cuisine is no longer the be-all-end-all of fine dining. But look around and a certain nostalgia for the white tablecloths and frisée aux lardons of French dining is manifesting. The brasserie and the bistro are distinctly not fine dining.

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Chefs Dish on Black Comedy

Modern Restaurant Management

"The Menu" hits the screens next month and chefs are already dishing about the black comedy focused on fine-dining. Personally, the end goal for me is to spend more time having “fine dining” experiences and visiting Michelin star restaurants. .” Here are what some shared with us.

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THE REALITY FOR AN AGING CHEF

Culinary Cues

I also assume that, like me, you have entertained lofty ideas of your ability to “do it all over again” with the same energy as you did a few decades earlier. This patience can save an operation from designation as a hostile work environment or an unstable kitchen that is not a place where cooks want to work.

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Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur

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Lille Allen/Eater A former fine dining server dishes on how the flambé, a dying convention of French haute cuisine, became the ultimate tableside flex I can feel sweat soaking through the armpits of my $5,000 Tom Ford suit and a nagging itch along the starched collar of my custom-fitted tuxedo shirt. What’s that thing with the fire?”