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Wanker (Celebrity) Chef...

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  • #32
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,086 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #35
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    policarp wrote: »
    Desert should be free.

    Free the Kalahari!! ;)


  • #36
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


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


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  • #37
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    rgmmg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


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


    ;)


  • #40
    evil_seed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    Oh the irony


  • #41
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭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???


  • #43
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Was it that wanker in Cavan???

    You'll need to be waaaaaaaaaaaay more specific.


  • #44
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #45
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    policarp wrote: »
    Desert should be free.

    party-in-the-desert.jpg


  • #46
    AryaStark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭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!


  • #47
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #48
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭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


  • #49
    lalababa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    'Celebrity' chef = Jesus walks among us.

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


  • #51
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Free the Calamari!! ;)

    FYP


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  • #52
    Wtf ?
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Wtf ?


    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.
    Oooh, Very close....


  • #53
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    I don't think jesus was the chef, the sommelier surely.

    Good bumper sticker idea "Jesus is my sommelier".


  • #54
    blue note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭blue note


    I'd say chefs in fine dining restaurants have to deal with a lot of people more accustomed to carvery dinners eating in their restaurants. And getting the odd comment back that the sauce is too wattery because they're used to the gloup from the something inn that they have their favourite table in.

    Fine dining isn't for everyone. Plenty of people are not interested in unusual flavours and texture and pairings. And that's fair enough, we all have our own interests and hobbies. And you can't please everyone with the food.

    Opera isn't for everyone too. But the difference between the two, is that people don't go to the opera and come out telling people it was crap because they like Bruce Springsteen and they didn't play any. They accept that they went to the opera and heard opera. Whereas with fine dining, if people come out and didn't get their ideal meal, they will proclaim it bad.


  • #55
    magic_murph
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    who was the Chef / restaurant?


  • #56
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    magic_murph wrote: »
    who was the Chef / restaurant?

    Its very difficult to figure out as theyre all **** and so it could have been any of the 'celebrity'* chefs.


    *I use this term in the loosest possibly sense.


  • #57
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,365 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    blue note wrote: »
    I'd say chefs in fine dining restaurants have to deal with a lot of people more accustomed to carvery dinners eating in their restaurants. And getting the odd comment back that the sauce is too wattery because they're used to the gloup from the something inn that they have their favourite table in.

    Fine dining isn't for everyone. Plenty of people are not interested in unusual flavours and texture and pairings. And that's fair enough, we all have our own interests and hobbies. And you can't please everyone with the food.

    Opera isn't for everyone too. But the difference between the two, is that people don't go to the opera and come out telling people it was crap because they like Bruce Springsteen and they didn't play any. They accept that they went to the opera and heard opera. Whereas with fine dining, if people come out and didn't get their ideal meal, they will proclaim it bad.

    or maybe the sauce was just too watery.


  • #58
    blue note
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭blue note


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    or maybe the sauce was just too watery.

    I wouldn't rule it out. It was a general point i was making.


  • #59
    mikeymouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭mikeymouse


    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 should have called it gravy, and asked for it on the side in case you didn't like it, that would have jus(t) p1ssed him off!
    Or this


  • #60
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    mikeymouse wrote: »
    You should have called it gravy, and asked for it on the side in case you didn't like it, that would have jus(t) p1ssed him off!
    Or this

    And some bread to dunk in the gravy


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  • #61
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    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...

    Maybe its you that is the pretensious prick seeing everyone else enjoyed the meal.
    Wherever you go there is always one gob****e trying to show off " Is this cheese from the milk of goats reared on the western side of the Pyrenees? and similar bull**** observations


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