Message: | Some chefs, even some popular ones, are one-trick ponies, and when you're tired of that trick you're tired of their restaurant. There's a restaurant in Culver City that seems to use the same spice mix in everything, burgers, fish, pasta, whatever. I eat there once in a while because a friend likes the place, but I have no sense of enthusiasm for it.
Perhaps the problem at high-end places is that the chef has a strong sense of style and uses the same balance in each dish, so that even when different ingredients are used the result is monochrome... At Denny's the effect is the same because they fry everything in the same grease. |