At alinea, you don’t necessarily have the option to choose what you order. You basically make reservations and pay, then you show up and basically just eat whatever menu they have set that day (the menu changes daily). Funny joke though
Grant explains it in Lecture 6 of the Science and Cooking series at Harvard. It really has nothing to do with anything he did to the food. It was a unique mistake that the pattern in the plastic table cloth they use for this course just happens to form those corners.
I agree that when you go to Michelin type restaurants, it's not about quantity but quality and an experience for your tastebuds. Desserts are first all about presentation which is an art on itself, but doing these directly on the table provides mostly visual entertainment, getting around it is another matter!
They have a silicone table cloth covering the table and the texture of that silicone makes the liquids turn into different shapes depending on their densities.
This "dessert" is known for it's element of surprise. They used to drop a bowl of chocolate that would be filled with goodies. When they nonchalantly cracked open the larger pieces at the end, I was like "Ah what's the grand finale?" And I realized the custard everyone started to forget about ... and thought it would be another glaze or sauce, that was poured into the glass, actually turned into a solid during the duration of the presentation and they finished with a creme brulee ending. Culinary theatre - this sure is!
This is so about the experience! How much fun would this dessert be? Think back to when you were a child at dessert time, you wanted everything! To me this takes me back to dreams of mountains of ice cream sundaes, candy covered trees, rivers of chocolate, and cotton candy clouds that rained gumdrops and m&m's, but now has evolved with age. Truly creative!!!
Every time I watch Alinea plate anything, I LITERALY start to choke up and hold back tears because of the beauty on its own (don't even get me started on the skill involved). However when you know the story behind the head chef, and the health sacrifices he makes in order to make every dish happen it is truly incredible, and tear jerking, to watch these feats of majesty. I have followed this restaurant for a while, and their incredible skill of manipulating simple ingredients is amazingly innovative and the creative mindset of the head chef is a mindset I strive to instill in myself every day. As soon as I am able to afford a trip to Chicago and I am able to get off of work, this is what I will plan my trip around. I look forward to Chicago because of Alinea and the wonderful ideas of Grant Achatz (not to mention the deep dish pizza). Hopefully I will meet this incredible culinary team soon. Best of luck Alinea and GODSPEED!
@kevin42253 Wonderful miracle of thermodynamics, not sure what they put in there but it allows the chocolate to cool faster on the thinner edges as gravity pushes the circular chocolate down.
Sometimes on the search to being 'Out of the Box' or being Creative one can actually go extremely over the top. As much as I enjoyed watching the creation of this art-food, I know I would have been irritated trying to eat it.
I've eaten it and it wasn't irritating at all. It was the best presentation and dessert that I've ever had well worth the trip to Chicago to eat at Alinea.
So gross artongant useless Fake good idea ridiculous dégénérescence of cooking then thy think they are genius liké this stupid ballon 🎈 this Guy really think hé IS Big shot its sad Big prétentious mess on table abd peoples in zxctasy its just ripoff
Honestly stupid anal square dot.then from large circle to small dote to fibish broken Frozen merringue then After 15 minute of that freack show on thé end look liké garage Can on Ur table are not enough for u wake UP call ??? Noooo
+Leonar12345 Its the unique experience at the restaurant. This is something that you will go and tell your friends about and something that will earn you the stars.
Habanosify yeah, it is a unique experience. that's the whole point of restaurants like Alinea. You go there are have food that you wouldn't have anywhere else because very few chefs are this creative with their cuisine. and stars aren't earned by popularity.
It's really frustrating me that the comments are saying that they'd prefer it on a plate or that's a mess? The point of Alinea is the experience. That food can transport you to a different place. The point of this dessert is not to have you're classic chocolate lava cake on a plate. Your dessert literally becomes an edible piece of art. Grant has always questioned the notion of "you can't play with your food". Why can't we? Food is there to be enjoyed and like any other profession, he is pushing the boundaries of what "cooking" is
It looks good but seems like you would waste a lot of it trying to scope it from being smeared all over the table and I wouldn't like a burned creme brule to the point of it being black like that.
Lol, Contemporary art. Some restaurants ask silly questions like "would you like a table sir?"....I'm like no, no...we came to eat on the floor, Carpet for 5 thanks.
+hakimi badrul Yeah I was wondering that too jaja. I was thinking, "Maybe I'll try on the kitchen table tomorrow" jeje. I figured the table had something to do with it. I'll check the link soon!
Those that are saying that this is stupid, you obviously haven't been to a Michelin starred restaurant. It's not just about the food, it's about the experience. These chefs are passionate about food and what they do with it.
the tablecloth that is used is for deserts and has small indents in it. Depending on the viscosity (as said by pants) it will either become round or become square. So precision is necessary
@@nogoglobal imagain having mouth cancer loosing your ability to taste, eating causes you extreme pain. Yet you open one of the most prestigious dining experinces despite that has ever existed. A dinning experience blending science art and food. Boredom maybe. Stupidity not at all
well the tablecloth allows for a bigger display as well as having special properties to the table cloth (there are small indents in the cloth). You obviously don't eat this with complete strangers.
Roughly, because of the rectangular knitting of the drape. The chocolate has different resistance forces for every direction it flows, which causes it to run faster in certain directions.
Call me unsophisticated if you want, but this seems unnecessarily outlandish and pretentious. If you have fantastic flavours, you don't need stunts like this.
you say that because you're poor, this is rich people stuff, their bored with their money so they wanna try new things lol. it really is more for the experience and yea it's unorthodox but to call it outlandish and pretntious, i dunno about that. there's a reason why it's ranked as one of the top restaurants in the world and has earned mutiple michelin stars. and alinea is known for the artistry with food.
i’m not that into it but just because i don’t like dessert in general. it’s sad though how people get so self-righteous about food. if people want to experience something new like food as a fun art performance/science experiment, then what's wrong with them trying it? instead of having the same old mcdonalds every other day for a month, you can cook your own food at home and save that money and have one interesting experience like this once a month. i normally go for something cheap like mcdonalds or some asian fast food but i don’t regret those times i save up and get to try something different. just because people don't do the same things that you do doesn't mean that you're better than them. unless you’re just envious that they have more money than you to spend on stuff that you think is 'useless' (like a phone or video card or a concert ticket or basketball game or alcohol)…then that’s your own problem.
No one's against people trying new things. We're just making fun of how utterly pretentious and ridiculous this whole thing is. Food is not art. Food is food. Put it on a fucking plate.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you know how much a chef working at a Michelin Star restaurant makes compared to an 'average' chef? Would love to know.
Sorry I’m late. They can be paid usually starting around $100k-$150k if they’re working in a restaurant and they have 1 Michelin Star, which is decent. But the real money starts coming in with a 2nd star plus when they open their own restaurant, as they can scale to multiple restaurants
If this is supposed to be art then that's great, but just text me a picture of it to look at later then put all of mine in a bowl so I don't have to lick it off the table like a rabid dog for $500.
I give Grant huge respect for being one of a small few who stepped out of the typical culinary world filled with simple techniques and lack of creativity to creating a one-of-a-kind experience that has never been done like what was done in the video before. His goal was to create an experience unique to only his restaurant and he achieved it marvelously. To those bashing his creativity is ignorant to how the industry works. This is a tough industry to be known and unique because its filled with too many aspiring chefs who want to be where Grant, as well as many other accomplished chefs, are currently. So, think twice before you try to act like you know better. I'm not trying to sound rude, but it's demeaning to us aspiring chefs when someone bashes a chef's hard work.
Thank you for being one of the few people who get it unlike these other assholes. They basically think that creativity is bad. Alinea is awesome and I can’t wait to work there
@kevin42253 it is actually the design of the silicon mat ... it has a square print thingy there which makes the sauce to spread into square shapes .... u can see chef grantz explain this dish at lecture 6 .
as a chef i'm just glad that this sort of pretentious bullshit is on the way out. rustic and simple food is on the way back and no amount of liquid nitrogen shenanigans is going to stop it.
***** well i guess than that you should know that it's not all about filling your tummy but also the taste and experience...of course you wouldn't eat this kind of food in a daily basis though so people will still continue eating simple food anyways but maybe on a special occasion try something different and special like this
VA51L implying simple foods are not tasty. im sure this tastes delicious but it serves no practial purpose. for me the true test of skill is what you can prepare with the least amount of ingridients and time and still make it delicious. and from my experience these kinds of dishes never live up to the hype, not to mention they're expensive as shit
I was hoping I wouldn't have to scroll down too far to hear someone echo my thoughts on how pretentious this is. It would just look like a fucking disgusting mess afterwards too. Imagine walking into a fine dining restaurant and the table is covered in chocolate and sauces? It would look like a fucking 2-year-old got a hold of the hersheys syrup bottle again. Fucking stupid.
lol im sorry, im alll about fancy but this is fucking hilarious...they throw all these ingredients on the table, smear the sauces (ofc creatively) and bam....heres your dessert....i'd much rather get a plated dessert than a mess like this....
ando1135 It's a special mat.That's what I mean by "plated" So yes it's like a plate. Lots of restaurants have share plates and some have it so you can order food and whoever can eat what they want (lots of asian restaurants in NA have this). This is no different just it's much larger. Not pretentious just out of the ordinary. If ths wasn't a restaurant that served high quality food for a price it'd be a cool new thing to do but because it's quality food people try to go against it for no good reason.
3:02 she asked a guy who is clearly just a server, "Are you the head chef here?". Basically you can have all the money in the world to eat at restaurants like these, but money cant buy you a brain lol
@r3never If you're referring to the San Pellegrino list, Achatz is actually number 6. Heston Blumenthal just edged him out of the top 5. New one comes out in spring, I believe. I wouldn't be surprised to see him edge up into the top 4.
"Excuse me waiter, I didn't order this"
LMAOO
At alinea, you don’t necessarily have the option to choose what you order. You basically make reservations and pay, then you show up and basically just eat whatever menu they have set that day (the menu changes daily). Funny joke though
Casey Baker haha
@@Frogbjb I know if I'm paying I choose what I eat.
Disturbed One87 you can’t here it’s a course meal
oh yeah i forgot to say, could i get it to go please?
Tom -"sure, we'll pack the table for you"
Ignacio Sandoval -that would total up to 50 grand thank you...
lol
Tom they don't give takeout
@@YouEatHam80 No shit Sherlock.
I have never seen the term "we will get this for the table" taken so literally.
Is it just me or those white sauce circles just magically shaped themselves into square shapes?? It's odd I keep looking and it's the same
It's due to the weave of the cloth......cover, that the sauce is being applied. Surface tension is holding the edge of the sauce .
kev d than this is clearly not your cup of tea;)
Simon Davies ...I just... I don't want to believe that..
I totally had to go back and double look, lol I thought I had missed something
Yea its because they are induced with a powder from the rectangular fruit called squaras.
I'd like to see video footage of the customers actually eating the dessert.
Perhaps they had to lick it off the tablecloth?
coralarch not cloth
I'm thinking the table was cold or the Frozen stuff they put on the table at the end solidified the chocolate so they could just pick them up
@@an-insane-llama I'm way late on this, but neither of those is the case, you just eat it with your spoon, and treat the table like a plate.
@@ltsBoxes What? Won't that be messy?
I love how he says "have fun" at the end, which is realy what Achatz's dining is all about!
to me seem more a restaurant for wannabe idiots
75% presentation, 25% restaurant employees laughing in the kitchen when they peek at the customers trying to figure out how to eat it.
+Taiyo mn Brilliant! I think you nailed it!
"I FIGURED IT OUT!!!"
*FLIPS TABLE*
"ART!"
Lick it off
By the handful
You’re not supposed to eat it... you gotta admire the art and take pictures
"Ummmm chef can you stop putting shit on my table and give me a plate!!"
"Sorry. We ran out of plates after your 20 courses."
XD
Lmao!!!
Here after watching the menu
Same. Looking at thos after the end feels both interesting and unsettling
"s'mores" is on alinea's secret menu. you can only order it once in your life though.
I'll just get some Ben & Jerry' at the 7-11
I ordered chicken.....
You don’t order food here my dude. Its a 20 course tasting menu.
@Swiit Lime I work in one of the best Sushi restaurants in Texas and I still eat KFC. Stop acting like a snob
😂
✨💆♂️✨
Being the 20th course, they're probably happy to just look at it.
Being that the portions are probably one-biters, I would bet that some might be hungry af still lol
Nah this place is mainly experiences and using all sense so youd provably be super hungry
Grant explains it in Lecture 6 of the Science and Cooking series at Harvard. It really has nothing to do with anything he did to the food. It was a unique mistake that the pattern in the plastic table cloth they use for this course just happens to form those corners.
I agree that when you go to Michelin type restaurants, it's not about quantity but quality and an experience for your tastebuds. Desserts are first all about presentation which is an art on itself, but doing these directly on the table provides mostly visual entertainment, getting around it is another matter!
Regardless you’re going to eat a huge amount of food. If each dish is maybe 2-5 bites, stretch that over 20 courses, that’s a crazy amount of food.
They have a silicone table cloth covering the table and the texture of that silicone makes the liquids turn into different shapes depending on their densities.
This "dessert" is known for it's element of surprise. They used to drop a bowl of chocolate that would be filled with goodies. When they nonchalantly cracked open the larger pieces at the end, I was like "Ah what's the grand finale?"
And I realized the custard everyone started to forget about ... and thought it would be another glaze or sauce, that was poured into the glass, actually turned into a solid during the duration of the presentation and they finished with a creme brulee ending.
Culinary theatre - this sure is!
It's shit.
this video is great! ill go drive to my local mcdonalds and grab a double cheeseburger and some nuggets
“Are you the head chef” lol i dream to go to this place and meet Grant! So fortunate!
how do you eat this ? did they decorate on the tablecloth itself ?
Next level:
- The chef climb on top of the table, pulls his pants down and takes a huge dump at the center of table.
LOL.And they would eat it cause it's expensive
You still have to do the spoon smear
this comment is way underated
It is finger licking good
are you dumb or what
I can do that on my dining room table....Hold my beer.
You're Sweet gets smack by mother*
You can shit on your table.. Nothing more
😂 i may have thought the same
Amazing unbelievable professional top class art work! I cant believe how in sync two people could be to create one beautiful masterpiece!
creative it is but its also so unnecessary lol....just give me a well thought out plated dessert over this fiasco.
This looks incredible.
This is so about the experience! How much fun would this dessert be? Think back to when you were a child at dessert time, you wanted everything! To me this takes me back to dreams of mountains of ice cream sundaes, candy covered trees, rivers of chocolate, and cotton candy clouds that rained gumdrops and m&m's, but now has evolved with age. Truly creative!!!
Every time I watch Alinea plate anything, I LITERALY start to choke up and hold back tears because of the beauty on its own (don't even get me started on the skill involved). However when you know the story behind the head chef, and the health sacrifices he makes in order to make every dish happen it is truly incredible, and tear jerking, to watch these feats of majesty. I have followed this restaurant for a while, and their incredible skill of manipulating simple ingredients is amazingly innovative and the creative mindset of the head chef is a mindset I strive to instill in myself every day. As soon as I am able to afford a trip to Chicago and I am able to get off of work, this is what I will plan my trip around. I look forward to Chicago because of Alinea and the wonderful ideas of Grant Achatz (not to mention the deep dish pizza). Hopefully I will meet this incredible culinary team soon. Best of luck Alinea and GODSPEED!
+Ben Horak The guy is a hack.
*Putting food on the table* taken to a whole new level
Where can i buy the grey silicon mat?
they left out the bit where they put the plates in front of each guest before smashing them into tiny pieces.
This looks really interesting! I don't think I'd have it more than once, but it seems like a neat experience
That is beautiful!
okay around half way I was thinking ... when can i smudge it all together already?! 😊
I found this fascinating but Is there a video on how to eat this labor intensive dessert?
and this is how my toddler makes her plate at the dinner table!
aww your sweet
Uma obra de arte!
This is seriously artwork.
howtobasic should work here.. he would be amazing
the answer to the big question!!!: the squares are done by preparing the blanket with special binding essences
@kevin42253 Wonderful miracle of thermodynamics, not sure what they put in there but it allows the chocolate to cool faster on the thinner edges as gravity pushes the circular chocolate down.
I like how all the square pools of sauce align in the same direction
A question👋🏻. How do you guys eat that?
+lee dan bi That's what I'm wondering. It looks really cool, though.
+lee dan bi I've watched a few videos like this but none have shown it being eaten =\
You take off your clothes and rub it all over yourself. Then you lick it off each others skin.
8bitpineapple I died I’m my car bro😂
Looks like an orgy..byo boobs and dks.
I think I need a guide to eat a dessert on the table
SIGA map and compass?
Because putting things into your mouth is more difficult when it comes off of a table rather than a plate
This is brilliant, like an abstract work of art created in real time on your table. And you can even eat it!
Love how everything has a purpose on this table. You truly couldn't add or take away anything to make it more perfect! Stunning.
Sometimes on the search to being 'Out of the Box' or being Creative one can actually go extremely over the top. As much as I enjoyed watching the creation of this art-food, I know I would have been irritated trying to eat it.
I've eaten it and it wasn't irritating at all. It was the best presentation and dessert that I've ever had well worth the trip to Chicago to eat at Alinea.
Try using the provided spoon
So gross artongant useless Fake good idea ridiculous dégénérescence of cooking then thy think they are genius liké this stupid ballon 🎈 this Guy really think hé IS Big shot its sad Big prétentious mess on table abd peoples in zxctasy its just ripoff
Honestly stupid anal square dot.then from large circle to small dote to fibish broken Frozen merringue then After 15 minute of that freack show on thé end look liké garage Can on Ur table are not enough for u wake UP call ??? Noooo
I don't care how pretty that looks, I still would have preferred it on a plate.
100% agree on that
+Straddllw Yeah but then you don't get the stars from whatever morons organization decides that shit.
+Straddllw the point is for it to be communal so the whole table shares the dessert
+Leonar12345 Its the unique experience at the restaurant. This is something that you will go and tell your friends about and something that will earn you the stars.
Habanosify yeah, it is a unique experience. that's the whole point of restaurants like Alinea. You go there are have food that you wouldn't have anywhere else because very few chefs are this creative with their cuisine.
and stars aren't earned by popularity.
I didn't notice that until you said something and now my mind is blown.
idk, I had the firey banana dessert thing once. It was pretty frickin neat.
It's really frustrating me that the comments are saying that they'd prefer it on a plate or that's a mess? The point of Alinea is the experience. That food can transport you to a different place. The point of this dessert is not to have you're classic chocolate lava cake on a plate. Your dessert literally becomes an edible piece of art. Grant has always questioned the notion of "you can't play with your food". Why can't we? Food is there to be enjoyed and like any other profession, he is pushing the boundaries of what "cooking" is
So what is the socially acceptable way to eat that? I just find it baffling
@@randot6675 With a fork and spoon
Next concept is licking food of the bottom of the chefs shoes. It will be worthy of another michelin star
and how does the light brown sauce just naturally spread into soft square-ish shapes? :O
lovely...looks great
“Chef! We’ve run out of plates!”
*chef looks at table and smiles*
I make this every night for my son
hahahahahahahahahaahahaha
incredible is the only word that comes to mind.
Ima gonna come here one day. Oh lord the detail
I would have loved to see how they ate that
It looks good but seems like you would waste a lot of it trying to scope it from being smeared all over the table and I wouldn't like a burned creme brule to the point of it being black like that.
+random fun times lmao at not enjoying a burned creme brulee. literally means burnt cream
That looks like an INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE. I WISH I WAS A PART OF THAT. WOW🤩
Watched it again, some shapes became square. Cooooolll~~~~
The longer I watch it, the more perplexed I become. How is the chocolate squaring?
"Need to whip up dessert in a hurry? Dump a bunch of ingredients on the tale and eat them off the table like an animal you piece of shit"
Lil' Biiiits
Sugar Jay well done for copying a other persons conment
Ah yes I love to have my food poured and smeared on a table. Next restaurant they'll just dump your shit on the floor "its ART"
its clear your used to eating at mcdonalds lol
You are the sucker reason they can charge $500 for stupid shit like this. But hey, it's your money dude.
All art is that way. Paintings that a 2 year old can do are worth millions now.
sirmolio Moron
Lol, Contemporary art. Some restaurants ask silly questions like "would you like a table sir?"....I'm like no, no...we came to eat on the floor, Carpet for 5 thanks.
Good call I was trying to figure that out and it took me a while...
Where do I set my drink?
How come that poured chocolate can shaped into square?
I was wondering the same thing
+shaq newton I had read article about this matter on google. its about the cover material their used.
+hakimi badrul link to that article please please
hakimi badrul thank you thank you
+hakimi badrul Yeah I was wondering that too jaja. I was thinking, "Maybe I'll try on the kitchen table tomorrow" jeje. I figured the table had something to do with it. I'll check the link soon!
I must say that I have personally been to the new renovated version of Alienia and it was f###ing amazing I wish I could go back
This was stunning, so beautiful; the chocolate went from round to square!. Wow!!!. Amazing.
Those that are saying that this is stupid, you obviously haven't been to a Michelin starred restaurant. It's not just about the food, it's about the experience. These chefs are passionate about food and what they do with it.
half of us are watching this and thinking of 3 letters....
lsd
Mines were W T F
+Jenna G. HahahHHHAahahahaha
S E X
Next time they will start eating on the floor like birds and call it a revolutionary idea, haha.
There's already something like that. To make it worst. You have to eat in the dark. 0.0
I'd love to see that! Lol 😂😂
So how do i take it to go if im already full 🤔
Where do i find a torch like that !?
How the hell are you supposed to eat all that? Scrape if off the table cloth? It looks sloppy and barbaric.
You use silverware lol. The table becomes the plate, It is a silicone mat they lay out before the 'plating'. It isnt a tablecloth.
hey guys! I'm really interested in knowing how to make square dots like those. thanks
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Came for the same. Really really been wondering how aswell.
probably has something to do with the texture of the table and the viscosity of the liquid
the tablecloth that is used is for deserts and has small indents in it. Depending on the viscosity (as said by pants) it will either become round or become square. So precision is necessary
Use square spoons
That looks SO good! !
lol makes me just want to clean it...how exactly do you eat this?
the first world has become so ridiculous lately
Lot of bored stupid ppl for sure..I dont mean u.
lately, yup)
@@nogoglobal imagain having mouth cancer loosing your ability to taste, eating causes you extreme pain. Yet you open one of the most prestigious dining experinces despite that has ever existed. A dinning experience blending science art and food. Boredom maybe. Stupidity not at all
Looks tasty, but wtf. Can't they just do this on plates in front of each person?
well the tablecloth allows for a bigger display as well as having special properties to the table cloth (there are small indents in the cloth). You obviously don't eat this with complete strangers.
@@jonathandpg6115 It is so fucking wierd that you seriously explain this idiocy. It is bullshit for really stupid people.
As the stuff that gets poured into the glass cools, it becomes more stable.
Roughly, because of the rectangular knitting of the drape. The chocolate has different resistance forces for every direction it flows, which causes it to run faster in certain directions.
Call me unsophisticated if you want, but this seems unnecessarily outlandish and pretentious. If you have fantastic flavours, you don't need stunts like this.
i know right, this is the definition of pretentious
KaregoAt alinea was voted as the best restaurant in the world once so I'm sure it tastes good
KaregoAt this is why it's a Michelin starred restaurant. It's not just about the food, it's about the experience.
I mean, I don't know about y'all but I get a better experience eating from an actual plate than by scraping droplets of sauce from my tablecloth.
you say that because you're poor, this is rich people stuff, their bored with their money so they wanna try new things lol. it really is more for the experience and yea it's unorthodox but to call it outlandish and pretntious, i dunno about that. there's a reason why it's ranked as one of the top restaurants in the world and has earned mutiple michelin stars. and alinea is known for the artistry with food.
i’m not that into it but just because i don’t like dessert in general. it’s sad though how people get so self-righteous about food. if people want to experience something new like food as a fun art performance/science experiment, then what's wrong with them trying it?
instead of having the same old mcdonalds every other day for a month, you can cook your own food at home and save that money and have one interesting experience like this once a month. i normally go for something cheap like mcdonalds or some asian fast food but i don’t regret those times i save up and get to try something different. just because people don't do the same things that you do doesn't mean that you're better than them. unless you’re just envious that they have more money than you to spend on stuff that you think is 'useless' (like a phone or video card or a concert ticket or basketball game or alcohol)…then that’s your own problem.
No one's against people trying new things. We're just making fun of how utterly pretentious and ridiculous this whole thing is. Food is not art. Food is food. Put it on a fucking plate.
pavel brodskiy food can be art, art is a expression
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you know how much a chef working at a Michelin Star restaurant makes compared to an 'average' chef? Would love to know.
Sorry I’m late. They can be paid usually starting around $100k-$150k if they’re working in a restaurant and they have 1 Michelin Star, which is decent. But the real money starts coming in with a 2nd star plus when they open their own restaurant, as they can scale to multiple restaurants
a whole new meaning to playing with your food :)
If this is supposed to be art then that's great, but just text me a picture of it to look at later then put all of mine in a bowl so I don't have to lick it off the table like a rabid dog for $500.
I give Grant huge respect for being one of a small few who stepped out of the typical culinary world filled with simple techniques and lack of creativity to creating a one-of-a-kind experience that has never been done like what was done in the video before. His goal was to create an experience unique to only his restaurant and he achieved it marvelously. To those bashing his creativity is ignorant to how the industry works. This is a tough industry to be known and unique because its filled with too many aspiring chefs who want to be where Grant, as well as many other accomplished chefs, are currently. So, think twice before you try to act like you know better.
I'm not trying to sound rude, but it's demeaning to us aspiring chefs when someone bashes a chef's hard work.
Christine J
Poor baby
it is simply pretentious.
It has been done before you dumb broad.
Thank you for being one of the few people who get it unlike these other assholes. They basically think that creativity is bad. Alinea is awesome and I can’t wait to work there
@@BFrydell yeah you call us assholes. We are the dumbfucks and pay $300 for this crap.
@kevin42253 it is actually the design of the silicon mat ... it has a square print thingy there which makes the sauce to spread into square shapes .... u can see chef grantz explain this dish at lecture 6 .
this looks beautiful and i bet everything is delicous but how the hell do you eat this
Having OCD, this would not work for me.
I wish someone would have sneezed at that table and blown their artwork to smithereens.
LOL
@Swiit Lime is this for me ? I was just laughing at the comment of Cali fornia. He is just funny
@TheKaty37 they actually serve this on the silicone mat so it's very easy to clean they took a whole thing away after we finish
Oh sorry, could I get this in a bowl?
as a chef i'm just glad that this sort of pretentious bullshit is on the way out. rustic and simple food is on the way back and no amount of liquid nitrogen shenanigans is going to stop it.
you are not a chef you are just a cook
VA51L lol no. actually went to school for it and have a degree
***** well i guess than that you should know that it's not all about filling your tummy but also the taste and experience...of course you wouldn't eat this kind of food in a daily basis though so people will still continue eating simple food anyways but maybe on a special occasion try something different and special like this
VA51L implying simple foods are not tasty. im sure this tastes delicious but it serves no practial purpose. for me the true test of skill is what you can prepare with the least amount of ingridients and time and still make it delicious.
and from my experience these kinds of dishes never live up to the hype, not to mention they're expensive as shit
I was hoping I wouldn't have to scroll down too far to hear someone echo my thoughts on how pretentious this is. It would just look like a fucking disgusting mess afterwards too. Imagine walking into a fine dining restaurant and the table is covered in chocolate and sauces? It would look like a fucking 2-year-old got a hold of the hersheys syrup bottle again. Fucking stupid.
I wonder what Gordon Ramsay has to say about this...
Rowbance IT'S FUCKING RAAAWWW!!!!
and how it looks after eating?
A question I posed to my culinary students. Is it ok that they touched the ready to eat food with their bare hands...?
they missed the fucking plate
lol im sorry, im alll about fancy but this is fucking hilarious...they throw all these ingredients on the table, smear the sauces (ofc creatively) and bam....heres your dessert....i'd much rather get a plated dessert than a mess like this....
it's just as much a plated desert just the plate is a lot bigger. The sauces aren't smeared I don't know what your talking about
Gabzo Avro
a table is not a plate.
but you have to admit this is not practical and is very pretentious
ando1135 It's a special mat.That's what I mean by "plated"
So yes it's like a plate. Lots of restaurants have share plates and some have it so you can order food and whoever can eat what they want (lots of asian restaurants in NA have this). This is no different just it's much larger. Not pretentious just out of the ordinary.
If ths wasn't a restaurant that served high quality food for a price it'd be a cool new thing to do but because it's quality food people try to go against it for no good reason.
3:02 she asked a guy who is clearly just a server, "Are you the head chef here?". Basically you can have all the money in the world to eat at restaurants like these, but money cant buy you a brain lol
Amazing
@r3never If you're referring to the San Pellegrino list, Achatz is actually number 6. Heston Blumenthal just edged him out of the top 5. New one comes out in spring, I believe. I wouldn't be surprised to see him edge up into the top 4.