"Wayne" > wrote in message
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> Kate Connally > wrote in
> :
>
> > Peter Aitken wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The very reason for going to a top quality restaurant is so they can
> >> "do it their way."
> >
> > I totally disagree. If I go there to have the house specialty,
> > like Bananas Foster, then, obviously, I'm going to "have
> > it their way", but if I just go there to eat and decide to
> > order salmon and they refuse to cook it properly for me
> > (as in *not* rare!), then I don't think they have the right
> > to tell me that's the only way they will cook it. And if I
> > want a dish without the mushrooms and it's not something that's
> > already made up with the mushrooms already in it then I damn
> > well will "have it *my* way". Of course if I had known
> > then, what I know now about both parties charging their own
> > portion on their own credit card, something I've done many
> > times in the last 10 or 12 years, it wouldn't have been a
> > problem, but they probably would have given me a hard time
> > about that, too, with my luck. I don't know when that became
> > a common practice. Anyway, this was almost 20 years ago.
> >
> > Anyway, as far as I am concerned the reason for going to
> > a "top quality" restaurant is so that I can have well-prepared
> > food and good service. Not to cater to the ego of some
> > wacked out chef who thinks his way is the only way!
> >
> > Kate
> >
>
> I wouldn't want to go to a restaurant where I felt the need to dictate
> the cooking method and ingredients to the chef.
>
> --
> Wayne in Phoenix

I know, that's really bizarre. She is confising a restaurant chef with a
personal chef. If I want things cooked my way I do it at home. When I want
something cooked by a chef with more knowledge and skill than I have, I go
to a nice restaurant. Why on earth would I tell him (or her, more often
these days) to change a carefully planned and crafted recipe to be like I'd
make it at home? And if you don't like the way the chef prepares things, why
go to that restauranmt? Duh!


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Peter Aitken

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