Wanker (Celebrity) Chef...

Wtf ?

I pushed the boat out over the weekend and Me and Mrs me went to a nice pricey restaurant. During the meal which overall was acceptable, Mr Wonderful appeared and did his rounds with most of the punters licking his arse.

He came to my table and asked how was the meal. Lovely says I but the sauce on the lamb was way too salty and watery. What did he say ? '' Obviously this is your first time in a fine dining restaurant'' **** !
He could not take any negative feedback at all. Gob****e...

Car99

You don't like your lamb au jus sir?

Your Face

An unpleasant chef?

That's a new one.

Wtf ?

He was a Narssisist (spelt that wrong) but you know what I mean. Wanker

Ken.

Getting ideas above your station there wtf. Your a McDonald's man and you'd do well to know your place.:D

policarp

Your Face wrote: »

An unpleasant chef?

That's a new one.

Desert should be free.

cocaliquid

next time eat your dinner and then proceed to projectile vomit all over the place and ask for an ambulance to be called. That will sort him

Wtf ?

Nosnon wrote: »

Getting ideas above your station there wtf. Your a McDonald's man and you'd do well to know your place.:D

Basically thats what he was saying ? Wanker

'Celebrity' chef = Jesus walks among us.

McDermotX

Chefs, for the most part, are absolute twats.

They think they're curing f*cking cancer in the kitchen FFS.

Service providers. That's all they are.

mickdw

Was he wrong?

policarp

Wtf ? wrote: »

I pushed the boat out over the weekend and Me and Mrs me went to a nice pricey restaurant. During the meal which overall was acceptable, Mr Wonderful appeared and did his rounds with most of the punters licking his arse.

He came to my table and asked how was the meal. Lovely says I but the sauce on the lamb was way too salty and watery. What did he say ? '' Obviously this is your first time in a fine dining restaurant'' **** !
He could not take any negative feedback at all. Gob****e...

The customer should be the judge.
But sometimes they read the menu wrong.

storker

Wtf ? wrote: »

I pushed the boat out over the weekend and Me and Mrs me went to a nice pricey restaurant. During the meal which overall was acceptable, Mr Wonderful appeared and did his rounds with most of the punters licking his arse.

He came to my table and asked how was the meal. Lovely says I but the sauce on the lamb was way too salty and watery. What did he say ? '' Obviously this is your first time in a fine dining restaurant'' **** !
He could not take any negative feedback at all. Gob****e...

Marco Pierre White?

Car99

Calm down chef It's just a bit of food mate. Bit of bisto wouldn't go astray.

How Soon Is Now

Name of the restaurant?
Name of the chef?

policarp

mickdw wrote: »

Was he wrong?

The customer is always right.
Sometimes.

mickdw

Don't get me wrong I'm more of a take away pizza man than fine dining and I wouldn't waste the money only to be hungry leaving those fancy places but if for whatever reason I found myself in such a place, I think it would be unfair and just alittle bit smart arsed to tell the chef his sauce was watery or whatever if I had no previous experience of such dining.

kneemos

Who's to say what the sauce should taste like?
It's a bit like art, he's right because he's in the inner circle.

Rubberchikken

it would be the only time id be secretly ashamed of my kids would be if one of them had ever wanted to be a chef.
imo the most over rated meaningless job there is.
only to be done by the desperate when they cant do anything else.

stay out of 'fine dining' establishments op, over priced nonsense. youd probably get better value in a maccyd

mickdw

Well maybe he is right because he has spent a life time perfecting classic dishes, working under top chefs most likely all over the world.
I think it's understandable then that they might get annoyed if a customer says something like the op.
A comment such as - it wasn't for me or some such might be reasonable but the op said your sauce is too watery and too salty.
Take any other trade and if a newbie comes in and bluntly tells the leading man in his field that he has been doing it wrong all these years, you can expect a swift response along the lines of - who the f*ck are you.

kneemos

mickdw wrote: »

Well maybe he is right because he has spent a life time perfecting classic dishes, working under top chefs most likely all over the world.
I think it's understandable then that they might get annoyed if a customer says something like the op.
A comment such as - it wasn't for me or some such might be reasonable but the op said your sauce is too watery and too salty.
Take any other trade and if a newbie comes in and bluntly tells the leading man in his field that he has been doing it wrong all these years, you can expect a swift response along the lines of - who the f*ck are you.

Any other trade would give the customer what they want,not call them a pleb.

mickdw

Go in to Louis Copeland for a suit and he is only going to let you out the door in a suit that he can happily put his name too. If someone walks in looking for a style from 10 years ago, I'm sure he would steer them right. If someone walked in and told him he knew nothing about suits, I'm sure he might get offended.

kowloon

Ask where the ketchup is next time, see what happens.

hank scorpio89

You should have ordered the cream of some yung guy..

s7ryf3925pivug

"No. I'd really like to go to a fine dining restaurant though."

s7ryf3925pivug

kowloon wrote: »

Ask where the ketchup is next time, see what happens.

MPW loves ketchup though. I remember seeing him rave about it between telling his students to poach eggs in butter and describing his unnatural relationship with his mother. [That's just my recollection now, memory is vague.]

wexandproud

The thing about these celebrity chef's is , once they get on the telly they think they build a reputation which in their eyes is beyond criticism .
Personally i enjoy a good restaurant but i can equally enjoy an ordinary burger and chips if its what i fancy and if it's done well . Off the top of my head I've been to 3 '' celebrity'' restaurants and all 3 have been very disappointing . One in Ballsbridge , cant think of the guy who owns it , average food and poor service . Rick stijn's in Sandbanks near Poole , again very average. On tv he seems to be a supporter of local fishermen so i was surprised when i ordered bass that farmed fish was served , being surrounded by dogs and piss poor service didn't help .
Thirdly and worst of all was the Dunbrody in Ballyhack [ kevin dundon ] . Myself and the better half out for a drive one Sunday and both fancied fish and chips so dropped in here , pure ****e , if it was handed to you in a chipper you'd hand it back , so we both complained , the shock on the girls face that ''ordinary '' folks like us had the cheek to complain that the food was bad .
As a chef once told me if you can get basic ''fish and chips '' right you have a problem

The Bishop Basher

kowloon wrote: »

Ask where the ketchup is next time, see what happens.

I’ve had that happen while taking some US visitors out with work.

The chef was spitting fire.

All I could do was laugh.

The Tetrarch

You should practice coughing and saying "ar5ehole" at the same time.

Wtf ?

Order a steak then ask for 2 slices of buttered Batch :eek:

whisky_galore

Such bollocks this celebrity culture.

People would have laughed their heads off at the notion of a "celebrity" chef at one time. Why not celebrity plumber, celebrity bus driver or celebrity binman?

yosser hughes

storker wrote: »

Marco Pierre White?

I doubt Marco ever sets foot in most of his restaurants.
I'm guessing Irish 'celebrity' chef and I reckon Dylan McGrath.

El_Duderino 09

Wtf ? wrote: »

He came to my table and asked how was the meal. Lovely says I but the sauce on the lamb was way too salty and watery. What did he say ? '' Obviously this is your first time in a fine dining restaurant'' **** !
He could not take any negative feedback at all. Gob****e...

Seems like you couldn’t take his feedback either.

dxhound2005

Wtf ? wrote: »

I pushed the boat out over the weekend and Me and Mrs me went to a nice pricey restaurant. During the meal which overall was acceptable, Mr Wonderful appeared and did his rounds with most of the punters licking his arse.

He came to my table and asked how was the meal. Lovely says I but the sauce on the lamb was way too salty and watery. What did he say ? '' Obviously this is your first time in a fine dining restaurant'' **** !
He could not take any negative feedback at all. Gob****e...

You could overhear what they were saying? What did the minority tell him?

Badly Drunk Boy

policarp wrote: »

Desert should be free.

Free the Kalahari!!

murpho999

If the feedback was given in the manner that the OP's post were written then that might explain the chef's response.

murpho999

mickdw wrote: »

Don't get me wrong I'm more of a take away pizza man than fine dining and I wouldn't waste the money only to be hungry leaving those fancy places but if for whatever reason I found myself in such a place, I think it would be unfair and just alittle bit smart arsed to tell the chef his sauce was watery or whatever if I had no previous experience of such dining.

You should give them a try.

I've been to a few and it's a great experience and the notion that you leave hungry is entirely false especially if you go for a tasting menu.

Chapter One would be my favourite in Dublin and it's not really that expensive.

rgmmg

whisky_galore wrote: »

Such bollocks this celebrity culture.

People would have laughed their heads off at the notion of a "celebrity" chef at one time. Why not celebrity plumber, celebrity bus driver or celebrity binman?

Agreed. Calor Kosangas Housewife of The Year was all the celebrity the nation could handle.

Deebles McBeebles

Did you wash dishes in lieu of payment, OP? You sound like the type.

evil_seed

Oh the irony

ben.schlomo

Rubberchikken wrote: »

it would be the only time id be secretly ashamed of my kids would be if one of them had ever wanted to be a chef.
imo the most over rated meaningless job there is.
only to be done by the desperate when they cant do anything else.

stay out of 'fine dining' establishments op, over priced nonsense. youd probably get better value in a maccyd

How enlightened and knowledgeable.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Leave a poor review and mention how ignorant/arrogant and full of **** the chef was...that will put the wanker in his place!

Was it that wanker in Cavan???

Deebles McBeebles

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Was it that wanker in Cavan???

You'll need to be waaaaaaaaaaaay more specific.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

You'll need to be waaaaaaaaaaaay more specific.

Ok, was it that wanker in Blacklion, Co. Cavan??? You know the one with the face you'd never get tired slapping!

antodeco

policarp wrote: »

Desert should be free.

AryaStark

Rubberchikken wrote: »

it would be the only time id be secretly ashamed of my kids would be if one of them had ever wanted to be a chef.
imo the most over rated meaningless job there is.
only to be done by the desperate when they cant do anything else.

stay out of 'fine dining' establishments op, over priced nonsense. youd probably get better value in a maccyd

Being a chef and not just a cook is an amazing job... It opens doors all over the world and no matter where you travel to you can work.. in the kitchen language is not important, the quality of food is.

Chefs can be assholes but then so can everybody!

antodeco

yosser hughes wrote: »

I doubt Marco ever sets foot in most of his restaurants.
I'm guessing Irish 'celebrity' chef and I reckon Dylan McGrath.

I was in MPW a few years ago for the OHs birthday (shes a chef, who has a lot of time for MPW!). As we were leaving, in he walked!

nthclare

I remember year's ago being in a restaurant in Waterville in County Kerry.

The food was absolutely delicious, but the funniest thing was the chef who was a nice real Dubliner, not your Damo or Ivor type of ilk.

But a real Dub lovely accent, reminded me of Luke Kelly or Ronnie Drew you know a real Dubliner none of your alright Budd or yahhh roight yaw... types

Anyhow he came out towards the end of the evening, swigging a bottle of wine asking us all how we enjoyed our meal half cut.
Then telling us how he made the sauce now and again his vertigo's getting more noticeable lol

He suggested he's thinking of having a party, off back to his gaffe down the road....

Ironically it was my last weekend drinking, haven't touched a drop since 2003 sober 16 year's this year.

They say you'll never forget your last drink, that's for sure

lalababa

The whole celeb chef thing has gone stratospheric since the TV bean counters realized how much people like food porn and how cheap it is to produce. Tis grand on TV coz you can switch but God awful at a dinner party with some twit host talking bout nutmeg. Inconsiderate of the chef but sure tid be a bit boring if he took the customer always right attitude.

Auguste Comte

[Deleted User] wrote: »

'Celebrity' chef = Jesus walks among us.

I don't think jesus was the chef, the sommelier surely.

Spook_ie

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Free the Calamari!!

FYP