The Other Gourmand

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Let’s kill the “chef’s table”and all it represents

Let’s kill the “chef’s table”and all it represents

What if we said that wine pairing is nonsense, and tasting menu are for culinary parvenus?

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Aug 11, 2023
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A very good wine for a very good occasion. Full bottle for two full hearts in Bilbao, Spain, December 2022

Thesis: It is time we bring back the customer as a central piece of the restaurant architecture.

Corollary: let’s start killing the wine pairing first.

Let me put it very clearly: I hate, despise, loathe wine pairings. I find it preposterous and abo…

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