Michelin star madness!

It must have been a very good restaurant, only decent ones provide a stool for your Louis Vuiton.
This is exactly how food should be presented, small amounts for taste and texture and presentation is all.
We ate in a three star Michelin restaurant in France that were so far up themselves it was hair-raising, they even escorted ladies from the table to the bathroom. When we got the bill we thought we had paid for every diner by mistake

I suppose a Michelin star is a recognition of cooking skill so upsetting to be told that you're no longer good enough. Food snobbishness gone mad. Poor man.
DH wondered if the service was part of qualifying for a star. There seemed to be masses of staff and little touches eg a furry stool brought for my handbag!

The Michelin star thing works in other ways too, there was the case of the chef who killed himself because he thought he was about to lose a star

Me too!

Yes, making my mouth water....and I’m starting Frugal February tomorrow!

Scallops, venison, cheesecake sounds lovely, without anything being flim flammed.

Scallops, Venison and Cheesecake is the quick answer but they were all served in very exotic ways eg the cheesecake included rhubarb presented in 7 different (microscopic) ways. There was a nice pre starter and a pre pudding! It was all lovely but somehow...

Jane10 I know what you mean. A couple of years ago I took husband to a fancy, expensive restaurant for his birthday and it was all "style over substance". We still chuckle about the starter - it was cold and we had anticipated it to be hot. Unsure, we didn't want to ask so as not to make fools of ourselves so we ate it - as my gran used to say - with "long teeth". There was a lot if flim flam on that occasion too.

Flim flam that's a lovely expression. It was a nice gesture of thanks though. What did you have to eat, if you don't mind saying?

It grieved me greatly to spend so much on such flim flam but it was out of our hands and was just this person being kind. We certainly won't be doing anything like it again!

It would grieve me to spend a lot of money on a tiny bit of food.. however nice it was.
I remember in a lovely, expensive place being served peas, one at a time, by a waiter who kept stopping and looking at me, waiting for me to stop him when he had dished up about six.

Yes Oldgoat really spoiled us!

I read where a Chef has asked to have his Michelin stars removed so he can do cooking without wondering if the judges are examining every dish

What great taste Old Goat has.