Today's menu:

[Shadrach]

I worry more about how a dish tastes, not if it has parsley sprinkled on top.

Your right! I was just thinking of the presentation. it's not an easy Task to make a photo of a food dish look appetizing!

 

[harryopal1]

I thought you people were serious about gastronomy. Jaimie C has just disqualified himself with his, "I worry more about how a dish tastes, not if it has parsley sprinkled on top."
Let me preface the following comments by making it clear I am no gastronome but for those who are, presentation is a major part of the meal. To the very best restaurants, presentation is an art form for which you might pay dearly.

Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai)​

Price per person: ~$600–$1,000 USD
Seats per night: 10
Presentation component: Likely 30–40% of the cost
Why so expensive?

• Immersive environment: Each course is served with matching soundscapes, visuals, and scents projected onto the walls and table. One course might be served with crashing ocean waves and sea spray mist.
• Table as a stage: No décor is static — lights, sounds, and even the scent in the air change for each dish.
• Technical team: There’s an entire backroom crew managing the experience like a live theatrical production.
• Plating as art: Dishes arrive on mirrors, stones, live moss, or with edible fog. Some dishes are “painted” directly onto custom glass slabs.

• Sublimotion (Ibiza)​

  
  Price per person: €1,500+
  World’s most expensive restaurant
  
  
  
  • Courses are presented with AR/VR effects, holograms, and actors.
  • One dish arrives in a levitating container; another with a choreographed lighting show.
  • You're not just eating — you're in a dining performance art installation.
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• Come on you people. Get your act together

 

[Shadrach]

I thought you people were serious about gastronomy. Jaimie C has just disqualified himself with his, "I worry more about how a dish tastes, not if it has parsley sprinkled on top."
Let me preface the following comments by making it clear I am no gastronome but for those who are, presentation is a major part of the meal. To the very best restaurants, presentation is an art form for which you might pay dearly.

Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai)​

Price per person: ~$600–$1,000 USD
Seats per night: 10
Presentation component: Likely 30–40% of the cost
Why so expensive?

• Immersive environment: Each course is served with matching soundscapes, visuals, and scents projected onto the walls and table. One course might be served with crashing ocean waves and sea spray mist.
• Table as a stage: No décor is static — lights, sounds, and even the scent in the air change for each dish.
• Technical team: There’s an entire backroom crew managing the experience like a live theatrical production.
• Plating as art: Dishes arrive on mirrors, stones, live moss, or with edible fog. Some dishes are “painted” directly onto custom glass slabs.

• Sublimotion (Ibiza)​

  
  Price per person: €1,500+
  World’s most expensive restaurant
  
  
  
  • Courses are presented with AR/VR effects, holograms, and actors.
  • One dish arrives in a levitating container; another with a choreographed lighting show.
  • You're not just eating — you're in a dining performance art installation.
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• Come on you people. Get your act together

For that price, I hope the plates are Eatable too!
This is Criminal.There are Children starving in this World!

 

[Balifrog]

Well, what about all of you post some pics of YOUR home cooking presentation ?

 

[jstar]

Well, I have to tell you it’s very tiresome to have a unique A/V spectacle every time I present food to my wife….

 

[Shadrach]

Well, I have to tell you it’s very tiresome to have a unique A/V spectacle every time I present food to my wife….

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This is Weird! I fail to see any humor! This subject is supposed to stimulate people's cooking and presentation skills! or are you just being A Troll?

 

[harryopal1]

Well, what about all of you post some pics of YOUR home cooking presentation ?

I think my camera would be so ashamed it wouldn't take a picture. Sorry, I belong to the cook it and plonk it on the plate school of cooking.

 

[jstar]

This is Criminal.There are Children starving in this World!

Yes, that remark is really ‘stimulating people's cooking and presentation skills’

Oh wait, some emoji’s just for you:

 

[jstar]

I’m on a diet

 

[Shadrach]

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I’m on a diet

That is such a great idea, putting food back in an eggshell! It looks yummy!

 

[Shadrach]

Yes, that remark is really ‘stimulating people's cooking and presentation skills’

Oh wait, some emoji’s just for you:

You're absolutely Right! I was wrong. I couldn't help myself, when I hear of such outlandish prices and extravagant things people do, without any regard to people that at this moment are Starving! I open my mouth and say things like that.
I do want to encourage people to Cook and come up with creative decorative idea's to post on this Thread.
I just wish there could be more of a Balance, where No one is Starving, and if people can afford such fancy meals, then good on them too! I can't control my emotions, when I think of the injustices on this Planet Now!

 

[Bad_azz]

I thought you people were serious about gastronomy. Jaimie C has just disqualified himself with his, "I worry more about how a dish tastes, not if it has parsley sprinkled on top."
Let me preface the following comments by making it clear I am no gastronome but for those who are, presentation is a major part of the meal. To the very best restaurants, presentation is an art form for which you might pay dearly.

Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai)​

Price per person: ~$600–$1,000 USD
Seats per night: 10
Presentation component: Likely 30–40% of the cost
Why so expensive?

• Immersive environment: Each course is served with matching soundscapes, visuals, and scents projected onto the walls and table. One course might be served with crashing ocean waves and sea spray mist.
• Table as a stage: No décor is static — lights, sounds, and even the scent in the air change for each dish.
• Technical team: There’s an entire backroom crew managing the experience like a live theatrical production.
• Plating as art: Dishes arrive on mirrors, stones, live moss, or with edible fog. Some dishes are “painted” directly onto custom glass slabs.

• Sublimotion (Ibiza)​

  
  Price per person: €1,500+
  World’s most expensive restaurant
  
  
  
  • Courses are presented with AR/VR effects, holograms, and actors.
  • One dish arrives in a levitating container; another with a choreographed lighting show.
  • You're not just eating — you're in a dining performance art installation.
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• Come on you people. Get your act together

This just tells me that there are too many people with more money than sense - hilarious- I wouldn't pay a fiver for a plate with a hint of food smeared on it.

 

[Balifrog]

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I’m on a diet

And what is that ? Egg based obviously ?

 

[Jaime C]

I can appreciate the artistry of fine dining, but rarely find it’s worth astronomical prices.

I‘m perfectly content with a $3 a pound boneless chuck steak in the US. Do I like a real Wagyu steak? Sure, it’s nice, but a $200 steak doesn’t give me 65 times the enjoyment. Luckily, I sometimes get a nice Wagyu on flights to/from Japan. Same with Caviar.

I’m a fairly simple guy. Paying hundreds for a meal, with minuscule portions just seems ridiculous.

 

[Shadrach]

I can appreciate the artistry of fine dining, but rarely find it’s worth astronomical prices.

I‘m perfectly content with a $3 a pound boneless chuck steak in the US. Do I like a real Wagyu steak? Sure, it’s nice, but a $200 steak doesn’t give me 65 times the enjoyment. Luckily, I sometimes get a nice Wagyu on flights to/from Japan. Same with Caviar.

I’m a fairly simple guy. Paying hundreds for a meal, with minuscule portions just seems ridiculous.

It is more than ridiculous, it is Criminal! But hey, do the math. If one tiny portion of that cow cost $200. then what does an animal weighing 1000 lbs cost? when I think of People starving in the World, This topic makes me So Sad!

 

[Balifrog]

Croque Monsieur

 

[Shadrach]

Croque Monsieur

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That looks like a fancy grilled cheese with some kind of meat inside? Yummy!

 

[Shadrach]

I love how Balifrog shows delicious food and preparation, for a reasonable price! Please everybody do more of the same! These tales of Rip off meals, and Restaurants. Just make me Crazy!

 

[Balifrog]

That looks like a fancy grilled cheese with some kind of meat inside? Yummy!

Croque monsieur - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[jstar]

That looks like a fancy grilled cheese with some kind of meat inside? Yummy!

There’s also a croque madame with an egg sunny side up on top.

And a croque bolognaise.

Can you guess what is a croque hawaï?