More advice on what to order at fancy restaurants: [link]
Tyler Cowen, an economist at [George Mason University], has similar advice when ordering in a fancy restaurant. He advises diners to pick the item that sounds the least appetizing (he gives the example of Monkfish). He reasons that an unappetizing sounding item would not be on the menu unless the chef could make something truly exceptional out of it.
Chicken and steak are boring and easy to cook well at home. If you have the opportunity to sample the fare of a top-notch chef, it's best to choose the item that you can't get anywhere else.
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I never order fish on Monday, unless I'm eating at a four-star restaurant where I know they are buying their fish directly from the source. I know how old most seafood is on Monday - about four to five days old!
He reasons that an unappetizing sounding item would not be on the menu unless the chef could make something truly exceptional out of it.
I have had this experience, when we finally asked the waiter what to have at a tapas place -- he recommended the fish cheeks, which, really? OMG.
"What you can't cook at home" is why, on those rare occasions my Grandparents went out to eat (with or without their brood of eight), they got Chinese. It was the one thing he couldn't cook.
OMG! I get to go to a medical records office on my lunch hour. SO EXCITED!
Chicken and steak are boring and easy to cook well at home.
This dude has never seen me cook a steak.
OMG! I get to go to a medical records office on my lunch hour.
I am weak with jealousy!
My in-laws always went for Chinese when they went out, too!
Aw, msbelle. You have a hard row to hoe lately.
I am going OUT! on a DATE! tonight with my DH. Going to see Inglourious Basterds. Woo hoo!
My in-laws always went for Chinese when they went out, too!
Mine too. And when they stay in, come to think of it.
mango and Douglas fir purée
Douglas fir?? What won't these people turn into food? "And for dessert, peppermint bark! Made with REAL BARK!"
