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large booking at restaurant- how to split the bill?
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Georgiegirl256 wrote: »What is this eating "properly" pray tell? :rotfl:
Eating enough good, nutritious food to enable you to be able to understand simple things.
Childhood malnutrition has a lot to answer for, clearly.0 -
When people repeatedly say that their meal is "ruined" unless everybody at the table coordinates their courses and orders the same amount of food, I can only conclude that they are more concerned with putting the food into their mouths than with actually talking to their dining companions. Why, otherwise, would they care what I am eating?
This idea that you are either putting food into your mouths or "twiddling your thumbs" implies that the social interaction is secondary to the food.
It is, if you've gone to a restaurant, the same as it is if you've gone to watch a film. You don't go to see a film and then talk all night, do you? The film is the important bit.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
The Blue Elephant isn't an Indian restaurant and doesn't offer a buffet.
And neither does it offer a set tasting menu in the same way a fine dining or Michelin starred restaurant offers. Your example appears to offer a sample of food of a particular cuisine but you still have a choice to make at each course. Totally different thing, like comparing apples with bananas.0 -
The food and the company are equally important. But this idea that we must all be synchronised in our eating or the "experience" is "ruined" in some inexplicable way is just bizarre.seven-day-weekend wrote: »It is, if you've gone to a restaurant, the same as it is if you've gone to watch a film. You don't go to see a film and then talk all night, do you? The film is the important bit.0 -
Why are you unable to explain why your "experience" is different if I have a different number of courses to you?
I, and others, have done. But you refuse to comprehend.
The simple fact is we're never going to dine together, or I suspect in the same restaurants. You enjoy your frozen microwave meals in future though and don't you worry about other people.:rotfl:0 -
Why can't you discuss the taste with your companion because you are eating different things? And why wouldn't they be eating at the same time? The two diners will be getting a similar amount of food, just portioned up differently. And why would it really matter if diner B finished their food before diner A? Or are you, like others here, obsessed with the act of shovelling food into your gob rather than actually talking to your dining companion?
The point of a tasting menu is to discuss the (often unusual or out of the ordinary) tastes or compositions. If they aren't having it you can't do that.
The eight or ten courses are served and explained at the table in the order and at the timimg the restaurant needs for that specific dish. Then between courses sorbets or other palate cleasnsers are served .It may not be possible to co ordinate any of the courses let alone in a ratio of 8 or 10 to 3 plus add ons.
You would have to ask them why they insist on it. Having done several I can see why, but obviously you need to be convinced.0 -
You think I live off frozen microwave meals? :rotfl:Homeownertobe wrote: »I, and others, have done. But you refuse to comprehend.
The simple fact is we're never going to dine together, or I suspect in the same restaurants. You enjoy your frozen microwave meals in future though and don't you worry about other people.:rotfl:0 -
The food and the company are equally important. But this idea that we must all be synchronised in our eating or the "experience" is "ruined" in some inexplicable way is just bizarre.
It will be ruined if you sit there with your pasta bake and think I am 'shovelling' food down if I have a second course and an alcoholic drink.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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If I had one course and you had two or three, I wouldn't have any problem at all *unless* you tried to pressure me into eating more than I wanted to.seven-day-weekend wrote: »It will be ruined if you sit there with your pasta bake and think I am 'shovelling' food down if I have a second course and an alcoholic drink.0 -
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