This was one of the stupidest “controversies” I can remember. I cannot figure out why WaPo chose to ask a 24 year old about this either. I’m not against a 24 year old having opinions, but that seemed to be their main qualification. Pretty much everyone who has been 24 and is now older knows that new college grads have no idea what they’r…
This was one of the stupidest “controversies” I can remember. I cannot figure out why WaPo chose to ask a 24 year old about this either. I’m not against a 24 year old having opinions, but that seemed to be their main qualification. Pretty much everyone who has been 24 and is now older knows that new college grads have no idea what they’re talking about regarding restaurants. That said, I do enjoy the throwback to truly stupid controversies vs. “are we in a capitalist hellscape” (no) controversies.
> If the menu is built around shared plates, someone needs to be in charge.
There are some places where this works, but it’s far fewer than the number of places that tell you to do this. It’s my biggest eating out pet peeve. I am extremely good at ordering the food I want to eat, in the quantity I want to eat it in, and I would almost never prefer one serving of 5 things to 5 servings of the best thing. If you ask me if I want to share plates, the answer is no and you should just get better at ordering yourself. Dessert is the only exception, but only because I usually try to limit myself to one bite of the best thing.
"If you ask me if I want to share plates, the answer is no and you should just get better at ordering yourself. Dessert is the only exception, but only because I usually try to limit myself to one bite of the best thing."
I'm like you, but my wife is a "wants to try everything" type. It occasionally results in friction when she essentially wants to quarterback both of our orders ("ok you get A and I'll get B for the first course, then we switch halfway, then I'll get C and you get D for mains, but I definitely want some of those prawns on yours!") and I just want to get what I want and eat off my own plate
This was one of the stupidest “controversies” I can remember. I cannot figure out why WaPo chose to ask a 24 year old about this either. I’m not against a 24 year old having opinions, but that seemed to be their main qualification. Pretty much everyone who has been 24 and is now older knows that new college grads have no idea what they’re talking about regarding restaurants. That said, I do enjoy the throwback to truly stupid controversies vs. “are we in a capitalist hellscape” (no) controversies.
> If the menu is built around shared plates, someone needs to be in charge.
There are some places where this works, but it’s far fewer than the number of places that tell you to do this. It’s my biggest eating out pet peeve. I am extremely good at ordering the food I want to eat, in the quantity I want to eat it in, and I would almost never prefer one serving of 5 things to 5 servings of the best thing. If you ask me if I want to share plates, the answer is no and you should just get better at ordering yourself. Dessert is the only exception, but only because I usually try to limit myself to one bite of the best thing.
"If you ask me if I want to share plates, the answer is no and you should just get better at ordering yourself. Dessert is the only exception, but only because I usually try to limit myself to one bite of the best thing."
YES. Oh my god. No I do NOT want to share!
I'm like you, but my wife is a "wants to try everything" type. It occasionally results in friction when she essentially wants to quarterback both of our orders ("ok you get A and I'll get B for the first course, then we switch halfway, then I'll get C and you get D for mains, but I definitely want some of those prawns on yours!") and I just want to get what I want and eat off my own plate
I think you're missing the point of a (true) Tapas restaurant
This is why I despise tapas restaurants. Sorry, not interested in sharing, or only getting like, 2 bites of something delicious but paying $15 for it.
“There are some places where this works”