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Have you ever been to a Michelin star restaurant?

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  • #362
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    notnumber wrote: »
    Knockers, where I wanna see?

    (@)(@)


  • #363
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    fussyonion wrote: »
    (@)(@)

    Twirly nipples. The best kind.


  • #364
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    I ate in thorntons and it was comfortably one of the most memorable meals in my life. Absolutely outstanding.

    The bill for the two of us came to around €280, and believe it or not I would say that was good value.

    What I mean by good value is this -

    Many times I have spent €70 or €80 on a meal for two plus wine and it was entirely forgettable, rushed, uncomfortable, unimpressive, could do better myself.

    If you were a person who went out once a fortnight for a meal....and spent on avg €40 per head, incl wine ....I think you'd be far better off going to Thorntons once, and then not going out for dinner for a few months to make up for it.


  • #365
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Twirly nipples. The best kind.

    wtf

    am I on the right thread?

    thought it was about restaurants.

    Edit.....its all about context eh?


  • #366
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Sorry Tom. I'll contribute while I'm here:

    No, never been to a Michelin star restaurant. I like to feel FULL after a meal.
    Bag of chips, glass of wine-sorted.


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  • #367
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    wtf

    am I on the right thread?

    thought it was about restaurants.

    It is. Twirly Nipples have 2 stars - their meringue is legendary, bested only by the souffle.


  • #368
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    It is. Twirly Nipples have 2 stars - their meringue is legendary, bested only by the souffle.

    :pac::pac:


  • #369
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sorry Tom. I'll contribute while I'm here:

    No, never been to a Michelin star restaurant. I like to feel FULL after a meal.
    Bag of chips, glass of wine-sorted.

    Cheap date. :D


  • #370
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Cheap date. :D

    Nope, I like to think of myself as down to earth, easy going and not pretentious.
    I'd only cost ya €30 on a night out!
    No lobster or champers for me :)


  • #371
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Nope, I like to think of myself as down to earth, easy going and not pretentious.
    I'd only cost ya €30 on a night out!
    No lobster or champers for me :)

    So you're not a fussy Onion>?


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  • #372
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    So you're not a fussy Onion>?

    The fussy part of my name relates to the fact I check every pack of Denny ham in the shop before purchasing; I check to make sure there is no visible fat.

    I am perfectly normal.


  • #373
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Can I just say, and piss a few of you off - that I used to be a PA to banker ****. Chapter One was a regular choice. The company I worked for is now one of the infamous bond-holders.

    There's old money and there's Irish bonds lol.

    Be careful who you dine with.

    If I was reared on pheasant, I'd be into fine dining. I wasn't.

    I lived in Italy and the father's heart was broken trying to get me to try out boar and hare and rare this that and the other. I survived on tinned tuna. I used to have to say 'brusciatta' which means 'burned' and the chef would look at il padre and he'd nod and I'd get 'medium' steak or something.

    I'm not adventurous with food.

    I like small portions. I LOVE small tasty portions.


  • #374
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    Cantremember wrote: »
    You don't go to these sort of restaurants for a feed. **** off to supermacs for that. You go to appreciate the craft of cooking and the symphony of service, quality ingredients, superb cooking skills married to the best wine with the meal. It's an experience like a West End musical, El Classico or great opera. If you don't understand any of this **** off to supermacs.

    Riteo, a Mega Mac and Garlic & Cheese Chips it is so


  • #375
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Sorry Tom. I'll contribute while I'm here:

    No, never been to a Michelin star restaurant. I like to feel FULL after a meal.
    Bag of chips, glass of wine-sorted.

    Lots of them will make you feel full, especially if you're having a few courses


  • #376
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    I've haven't tried it and I would love to give it a go. However, I'd never pay that type of money for a meal and I wouldn't allow my dining partner to pay for me either


  • #377
    ringadingding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    Gotta laugh at so many people who have never been to a Michelin restaurant who declare that they'd still be hungry, it's a myth.

    Yes, the plates are not piled high like pigs troughs, but you get breads, amuse bouchés, starters, amuse gueles, starters, mains, pre desserts, dessert and petit fours.

    I genuinely, and I mean genuinely haven't left a Michelin place hungry, and I like a feed just as much as the next man / beast :-)

    And even if you're not full to the brim ( which isn't the point behind eating anyway), grab a bag of chips on the way home, it's not going to dampen your memory of the meal.

    I can remember when I first started cheffing, my boss surprised me to a trip to sheen falls lodge in kenmare, we felt so awkward parking an old crappy corsa in the car park, dressed in old clothes, it was alien to us.
    The good was stunning, and I can still remember the taste of my first proper buttery mash, real mash, pomme purée.

    Not once did I feel like people were looking down at us, and the only awkwardness was coming from us.
    Staff in high end places are usually real salt of the earth people, who love serving salt of the earth people, it's the snobs who get frowned upon.

    You can chat to your waiter the same you would your barman, well maybe not quite the same :-)


  • #378
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ringadingding wrote: »
    ...Not once did I feel like people were looking down at us, and the only awkwardness was coming from us.
    Staff in high end places are usually real salt of the earth people, who love serving salt of the earth people, it's the snobs who get frowned upon...

    "Snobs" as in head-up-the-hole, conspicuous-consumption, tuppence-ha'penny-looking-down-on-tuppence types, yes. They annoy most right-thinking people. Anyone who's met an actual, real toff will know that they are generally to be found in a battered old Land Rover or Subaru Forester with string around the britches. And that's the women! :D


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