Loire21 wrote:
> The older I get the more I realize that as far as food is concerned, simpler is
> better. Classic dishes are classics because they're already perfect on their
> own. Lavender creme brulee may be perfectly nice, but a creme brulee on its own
> is better. Fries with nothing but salt have it all over seasoned fries, or
> fries with garlic, or pepper, whatever else some enterprising chef decides to
> put on them.
>
> But chefs, like opera directors, just can't seem to leave well enough alone.
> They have to innovate. Please, stop innovating, and just give us a perfectly
> prepared Waldorf salad or Boston cream pie with no fancy frills.
>
> I find myself saying this all the time, as I did this weekend. I sampled two
> desserts at a rather expensive restaurant: Boston banana cream pie, and angel
> food strawberry shortcake, both with disappointing results.
>
> As is the custom nowadays, both desserts had been prepared in small circular
> molds, with fancily decorated sauce surrounding them on the plate.
>
> The Boston cream pie was not topped by a chocolate glaze, but rather by a thick
> round of hard, rather tasteless chocolate. The cake itself and the cream were
> quite nice, but the flavor of the banana overpowered them both. The banana was
> a case of gilding the lily. Just leave the lilies alone!
>
> The strawberry shortcake was encased in a shell of hardened white chocolate,
> which, I'm afraid added nothing to the cake. The angel food cake absorbed the
> syrup so that it was a soggy gop. The strawberries and cream were fine. The
> truth is, a dessert of just strawberries and cream would have been so much
> better!
>
> To our restaurant chefs: Just stick to the basics and we'll all be better off.


Go to McD's, because that is the final outcome of what you are
advocating in a fashion. If everyone cooked everything just alike, you
would end up being bored to death. Just think about how much
satisfaction you would be missing as you express yourself in bitching
about the food.

Here's your review as you would have it.

Went to ABC and had a very good piece of salmon grilled on wood. But, it
was just like the one I had at XYZ and at 123 and at 9F6. No real reason
to go there for the food, it is the exactly same as everywhere else, but
the atmosphere is a bit quainter than my normal haunts. So, don;t go
there for the food, go there to be quaint.

What a crock.


jim