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There seems to be a fashion
developing in certain hipper- than- our restaurants for the chefs to deliver
dishes directly to the diner in the restaurant......
I was caught out last
week as my waiters, unexpectedly distracted
by certain canine visitors and
youngsters in the garden were nowhere to be seen and I realised that it would only take a
couple of seconds to take some starters out to the dining room before they got
cold waiting at the pass..
As I delivered these two
dishes I noticed most of the other diners looking around at me. Some smiling, others
with sad looks that seemed to be saying ‘we must be second class diners as he
merely sent a servant out to us’....
I wish to make it
perfectly clear I am a fossil [as attested by those who shall remain nameless]
and still believe that your time in my dining room is your own, we do not have
a floor show. I also need to tell you
that we cannot let the cooks moonlight as actors as while we are cooking your food
we have many other dishes on the go at the same time. I know its old fashioned
but we really still cook stuff so while the real waiters are taking food to you
we are finishing the next set. Often the fish on a table of 6 only begins to
cook when the first set leaves the kitchen.
I have on occasion seen
as many as 4 chefs each deliver a dish to a table at the same time. I can only
guess how this is done. This sort of Tatiesque ballet could I believe make a
very fine sketch or cartoon but it seems that only the New Yorker still runs
foodie style funnies with any regularity.... come on Epicure the Age still has
the best black and white artists in the country
........
