3 star Michelin restaurant

scamalert · 18-10-2017 07:29PM

^ pic above is what i imagine all food looks in 3* places, id prob starve the portions when you look online the reviews is like for a 3yr old.

basically your pain to get 10 ounce some bollox meat that was put into plastic bag soaked in boiling water ,dripped with some oil and bazil and blown some artificial firewood smoke onto it :cool: with a dribble of some fanes squirt.

look up cooking in nature on youtube that stuff is like 10 stars compared to most micheling crap.

ohnonotgmail · 18-10-2017 08:05PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I was just looking at the menu in Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud in Dublin, which has 2 Michelin stars, and I'd find it hard of order anything I might like, although I am a bit of a philistine when it comes to food. I won't even eat cheese or pasta or eggs or peas or mushrooms or lettuce or cucumber. :pac:

That a la carte menu looks fantastic. the lunch menu not so much.

enricoh · 18-10-2017 08:25PM

dilallio wrote: »

I've eaten a few curry cheese chips from a 1987 chip van with 3 Michelin tyres and 1 Bridgestone. Does that count?

Yes it does count. I hope you took photos of the meals and shared with fellow foodies on social media.
What drinks did u pair with the food. I find a crisp chilled lucozade really complements the curry!

Miss Demeanour · 18-10-2017 08:32PM

Look.....when you cook like a 3 star michelan chef like I do.....no need to go and pay that money.

pickarooney · 18-10-2017 08:37PM

smurfjed wrote: »

I was given about 10kgs of excellent truffles a few years ago, we added them to a lot of various meals and gave them away to friends, I really couldn't say why people find them so amazing. And i seriously cant understand how a burger with truffles and gold can be worth 1100 Euros.

10kg of truffles are worth roughly 9,500 euros. Pretty nice gift!

Rezident · 18-10-2017 08:55PM

I've tried 1 and 2 stars which were both excellent but not a 3 star yet. Should be amazing, but be warned, in their quest to outdo themselves, experiments such as 'spherification' are risky and will not be to everyone's tastes.

Here is that legendary review of a 3 star that includes such wonders as:

Other things are the stuff of therapy. The canapé we are instructed to eat first is a transparent ball on a spoon. It looks like a Barbie-sized silicone breast implant, and is a “spherification”, a gel globe using a technique perfected by Ferran Adrià at El Bulli about 20 years ago. This one pops in our mouth to release stale air with a tinge of ginger. My companion winces. “It’s like eating a condom that’s been left lying about in a dusty greengrocer’s,” she says.

Full review here (well worth a read):
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner

HeidiHeidi · 18-10-2017 09:00PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'm fascinated by that dessert!

How do they produce it? Do they construct it on the table in front of you after they've cleared away your main course plates? Or ask you to leave the room like at a wedding so the band (dessert) can be set up? Or bring a giant table-sized board with it pre-prepared from the kitchen?

Looks delicious though!

Seriously, can anyone answer this for me???

Snotty · 18-10-2017 09:06PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Seriously, can anyone answer this for me???

It's just a very large pane of glass that they decorate the desert on and then put on the table.

_Dara_ · 18-10-2017 09:06PM

Personally, no food is worth dropping that money on. Just not for me. It’s just food. I’m going to L’Ecrivain next month but with the help of a voucher.

18-10-2017 09:06PM

There was some pretentious twaddle on a social media site about the best lunch in Dublin, anyway someone keep spaming the site with reviews of chicken fillet roles and when to find the cheapest chicken fillet role it was very funny.

Snotty · 18-10-2017 09:08PM

All this chat of 1 and 3 stars, you's are nothing but peasants, there a 4 star down the road from me.
Pizza always comes within 25 minutes or less.

zuutroy · 18-10-2017 10:35PM

Anyone who's not convinced, book the chefs table at Chapter One with matching wines and thank me later.
One of the best nights out you could have in Dublin for the same price as a heavy night on the piss.

A Battered Mars Bar · 18-10-2017 10:52PM

The subtle nuances of deconstructed hemoglobin globules permeating marbling evokes visceral naval eloquence tantamount to salivating perpetuated by gristle delivers the quintessential test of forbearance to which maceration and delivery to the gut is the only logical conclusion.

TheAnalyst_ · 18-10-2017 10:56PM

I can't stand inverted food snobbery. Usually coming form ***** that spend 5-10 grand a year on booze.

Marcusm · 21-10-2017 02:42PM

server down wrote: »

Yes but you don’t eat Michelin starred food everyday do you? So somewhere between a carvery and a Michelin starred restaurant is where we would find you. As to why carveries are worse than any other average restaurant, that’s never explained.

Until it’s most recent refurb, The Savoy Grill was a Michelin starred carvery!

Ubbquittious · 17-08-2018 10:43PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Some of the menus are weird. Like they all seem to include foie gras. Why would anyone ever want to eat that =/

Tastes lovely

So it does

mad muffin · 17-08-2018 11:07PM

Yes, I’ve eaten at the bridge house.

andekwarhola · 18-08-2018 08:43AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Seems a little bit crass to talk about Michelin * restaurants when some people are still barely getting by, in my opinion.

We best just put a stop to culture until utopia is ushered in, so.

andekwarhola · 18-08-2018 08:44AM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Each to their own I reckon.

Was in P Guilbaulds for a celebration lunch. It was grand, but I felt a bit out of place. I don't know how to explain it. Food was good, ambience good, service excellent, but it was a little bit, I don't know, toffee nosed. There were a lot of corporate types there all sucking up to the boss, doing deals. You know what I mean.

Anyway, not knocking the stars or anything. But I prefer cheap and cheerful and a noisy fun atmposphere. I know that is not verboten in these places, but it can be awkward.

Is it just me? Probably is.

Just ignore them and enjoy the food? They probably didn't even notice you.

RasTa · 18-08-2018 09:37AM

I got a Michelin star meal for €7 in Tokyo and you ordered it from a vending machine. Since then I've no interest in a 3 star

enda1 · 20-08-2018 01:38AM

Zombie thread alert!

JupiterKid · 20-08-2018 01:55AM

I’ve dined in Guilbauds a couple of times - the first being my university graduation - and it was superb but I felt very self-conscious there and not very relaxed but the food was amazing. All the waiters were French.

I prefer somewhere that does top quality food that actually fills you up and is informal and relaxed - like a gastro-pub place (but no sports on the telly - and preferably no telly at all).

Mid-price cozy restaurants like Ciao Bella Roma, Dunne and Crescenzi, Il Baccaro or The Green Hen are great spots. Food comes first, then service but ambience and coziness is very important too. And of course the company you’re with can make all the difference.

I ate a Chapter One years back - very, very good. 101 Talbot is great and not too pricey. I also like Yamamori, The Chameleon, Trocadero, Mulligans in Stoneybatter and Browne’s Steak House. I’m not fussy.

Ireland has such a superb range of restaurants now and an eating out culture that simply was pretty much non-existent a generation ago.

endacl · 20-08-2018 02:00AM

mariaalice wrote: »

I suspect people are not just going for the food its an 'experience'.

Carvery and pints is a lovely experience.

prinzeugen · 20-08-2018 02:22AM

Ahhhhh! That bloody word "experience".

You eat in a restaurant or visit one. People are just getting lazy now.

Does "experiencing" a 5 * Michelin restaurant on tv mean I have "experienced" one?

After all, going by the latest adverts for Sky Tv, we don't watch TV anymore. We "experience" it.

On that basis, I have experienced many great a Michelin restaurant. I experienced them on TV.

20-08-2018 02:35AM

Never eaten in one and not really into fine dining but would love to some day.

Dougal, there is nothing wrong with a splurge once or twice in life. It doesn't mean someone is rich, it means they value things differently and perhaps that experience is something they would enjoy more than a city break in Europe for example.

pleas advice · 20-08-2018 02:50AM

It's like a McDonalds, tastes grand, but leaves you hungry afterwards...

prinzeugen · 20-08-2018 02:58AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Never eaten in one and not really into fine dining but would love to some day.

Dougal, there is nothing wrong with a splurge once or twice in life. It doesn't mean someone is rich, it means they value things differently and perhaps that experience a visit to a expensive restaurant is something they would enjoy more than a city break in Europe for example.

FYP. Can nobody be arsed to speak proper english now? "Experience" is a lazy or uneducated persons verb.

Witchie · 20-08-2018 04:09AM

Larbre34 wrote: »

I love good quality and special or unusual food, but the best meals I have had werent in the couple of Michelin Star places I have visited. I'd much rather an informal and relaxed place where you can chat to the staff and maybe have a drink after hours with them and talk about food and drink

Personally Id check out the Bib Gourmand or similar lists for top class food in gastropubs and the like. For example, I recently ate in The Batch Loaf in Monaghan Town, fairly new by all accounts and no endorsements I could see except the local recommendations, but the meal was one of the nicest Ive had in a few years, all for €130 for 2 including wine and cocktails.

Thanks for making me home sick for their veggie risotto, big lump of batch loaf still warm, slathered with good Monaghan butter followed by Amelie's Creme Brulee washed down with some Brehon Blonde.

The Batch Loaf or the Eastern Balti House in Monaghan are the scene of most of our family's special meals for years now. Bliss.

I have not done Michellen started places but my aunt and uncle who live in France have and yet say both the places I mentioned are amongst the best food they have ever had.

They stayed with me in Kuala Lumpur a few months ago and fell in love with my favorite Indian restaurant here. They said Gem's butter chicken was one of the nicest things they ever ate. A meal in Gem for 2 with a few beers costs about €20. Best food ever.

20-08-2018 05:24AM

prinzeugen wrote: »

FYP. Can nobody be arsed to speak proper english now? "Experience" is a lazy or uneducated persons verb.

It also starts with an "e".

metaoblivia · 20-08-2018 06:10AM

I ate in a 3 star Michelin restaurant in January and they tried to serve me pigeon brain that was still in the pigeon skull. We don't have time for me to list all of the restaurants I would eat at before I ever went back there.

But seriously, pigeon brain aside, the whole experience was bizarre and came with more than a whiff of pretension. There ended up being something like 13 courses total, all small servings, which was fine. They approached dining as more of an art form than a function; each dish was designed to build off of the preceding dish and set you up for the next dish. Boundaries were challenged, and I can see where that kind of experience would appeal to a certain type of foodies.

I, however, am not any type of foodie. I'm glad I had the experience, but I won't be seeking it out again any time soon.

Edited to add: I went to this restaurant on a date - per the suggestion of my date - and did not pay for the "dining experience." I would probably be a lot more bitter about it if I had.

3 star Michelin restaurant

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