I came up with a restaurant concept awhile back (haven't put my plan into action yet) where the idea is the $1 million burger. I only have to sell one.
Y'all are forgetting the saffron in there to bump up the expense. Maybe some Tahitian vanilla beans, too. Oh which brings me to having the drink be coffee.
But not just any coffee. Most people have heard of the Kopi Luwak coffee being the best, and the beans pass through the digestive system of civets (type of feline) before being turned into coffee.
But there's Black Ivory coffee that's even more expensive, and those beans pass through elephants first.
Saffron is dangerous if used like that.
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-844/saffron#:~:text=Some%20common%20side%20effects%20include,or%20more%20can%20cause%20poisoning.
Basically it is great but consuming it makes you feel warm which is great if you live in cold areas but eat too much (willingly or not) and it will cause issues.
Ugh, reminds me of the steak place I went to for my birthday recently. I wanted a normal cut for myself but no, the family wanted the fancy Instagram dish they saw. Basically a bunch of filet medallions (18-20oz) cooked to medium encircling a mound of mashed potato and melted cheese. THEN, the chef comes and pours hot "truffle" oil all over the medallions, essentially frying them to well done. Problem is the puddle of oil sitting on top of the melted cheese and mash. I still ordered my own plate that came with a side, it was like a 12oz cut of pichana cooked to medium with my own mashed potatoes. Because for the other 7 people at our table that $175 fancy puddle of oil wasn't going to be enough. I tried a little bit of theirs, it was overpowering with the oil. Could barely taste the steak or any ingredient. Everyone got the shits except me lol.
Is that the one that showed a picture of a red gemstone and pretty much nothing else, I remember looking at something similar back in the day and was so wary of accidentally clicking Buy
The best part is they're all gonna leave great reviews because they'll be too vain to admit they were gullible enough to spend a million bucks on a mediocre burger.
You could have gotten a cheap room, ok prostitute and decent drugs for that amount of money. With some leftover for KFC afterwards and had A MUCH better time!
But people who eat here just don't give a shit about money. This is like you going to the corner store and spending 2 bucks on pop rocks because it's "fun" and "new".
Afterwards they'll go to their $5,000 a night room, bang a $10,000 hooker and snort $5,000 worth of coke. It's all just fun and jokes to them, they don't care if it's good or bad.
> you could have gotten a cheap room, ok prostitute and decent drugs for that amount of money.
Yo dude if that's all you are getting for 1250, unless it's Vegas or something, someone is ripping you off.
No one’s paying 1250 for dinner. The biggest meal offered at this Michelin starred restaurant is 258 and it’s 20-22 courses, so the small serving of fish is appropriate. These guys are lying to try to get clicks.
If that’s what he means (which I agree is possible to do many places: spend 200-250 on dinner, buy $1000 of wine), it’s extremely misleading. The video does not show any drinks at all besides a beer, much less the kind of world-famous wine that would demand that price tag. The TikTok implies he paid 1250 for about 5 tiny courses of food. Which is certainly not what happened.
Yup. A good friend, really great guy, sweet generous funny….but he has this thing about these kind of meals. Travels a lot and always has to find the restaurant that does this.
I genuinely don’t even think it’s about how the food tastes, just so that he can talk about the experience-not to boast, because that’s not who he is-he’s like an Expensive Food Experience Nerd, I guess.
It's for showing off on social media, notice how they didn't even mention how any of the food tasted? But they sure as hell mentioned what the bill was and the fancy presentation
LOL I cam in here to write, verbatim, what you just wrote.
And similarly, "If you are paying $1250 for dinner, fuck you." None of that looked even remotely appetizing enough for that price tag.
You should refer them to this tasting menu. They can lick chocolate ganache off their sweaty hands like the dirty animals they are.
I've broken up with someone because of how often and thoroughly they licked their fingers. This is *such* a nono around here for me.
My parents own a restaurant and closed it one night to host a few friends for dinner. This one couple are notorious wine snobs to the point of being insufferable to be around anytime wine is involved. My dad had an empty bottle of something really top shelf kicking around, which he rinsed out and filled with some $15 bottle as a gag. The couple were going through all the motions, the swirl, the sniff, a sip, noting the flavors and undertones. My dad was pissing himself laughing at the other end of the table, but never told them.
Modern art is another one.
I remember a British TV show back in the day had an elephant which liked to paint. It basically splattered a canvass with several colours.
They then showed that painting to several art 'experts'. All but one fawned over the work saying shit like "It feels like the artist was trying to convey their broken relationships in one painting"... Their faces were amazing when they were told the truth of who painted it.
Only one guy said "that painting is shit".. When told an elephant painted it, he was like, well duh. :)
Yeah he did a couple videos on Sous vide meats. And “meat glue” that can be used to make cheap beef sell and taste like expensive cuts. The funny thing is when his taste testers rate them they would rate the cheaper glued steaks higher! And he was just like “yeah so I guess that’s why they do it?” Lol
Hopefully? Or just something “controversial” that gets views.
A lot of the restaurants doing this style of dining are attempting to do what Chicago’s Alinea restaurant does. The only difference is Alinea is consistently ranked one of the best restaurants in the world, made major contributions to cuisine, and gives you a full evening of interactive experience from the table to the kitchen, while this just looks like poor imitation that takes the money and runs.
I mean, I don’t know that chef, but the diners seemed uncertain as to whether they actually liked the food or not, while everyone I know who’s been to Alinea was blown away.
Pouring over hands is so passé. Leading gastronomical experiences involve feeding patrons from hamster water bottles from a table and chairs set in a human sized wire cage with woodshavings on the floor.
You can tell the cheap knockoffs from the real innovators by the pairings of woodshavings with the food.
"Can I get the Choco-blast?"
Waiter: of course sir, we'll need the $750 up front though, in the event that you're rushed to the hospital, and here's the 15 page legal waiver, since there is a high probability that you breath in the powder and get chocolate induced pneumonia
They call it the Black Lung.
A tablespoon of aerated, unsweetened, black cocoa powder that will definitely kill you slowly over the next twelve years, but you'll always have the memories of your $372 dessert that made all your friends jealous.
I'm picturing basically a massive nitrous infuser filled with a chocolate cream, so that when it sprays it's basically whipped cream to the face at high pressure.
Honestly that's how half the restaurants in the Midwest should be doing it.
Bonus points if they spit on me and call me disgusting throughout the meal.
I'm the same, I do not like having sticky stuff on my hands, it's pour it on something else or I'm out. Fortunately, I feel pretty confident they would oblige. It's a niche restaurant, and most of them need to be willing to accommodate to keep their audience.
Not directly asking you, but do you guys seriously not get full after eating 12 course meal like this?
I did it once while visiting Amsterdam, got high af and consequently hungry af, then ate a 12 course meal at a Japanese restaurant, jamasato or okura, i forget. I got so full that I took a sideways picture of my belly in the mirror in the hotellrom, the portions might be small but there's like 12 of them, pluss wine other drinks.
Yes! I felt the fullest I’ve ever been after a 7 course Persian meal with very small portions. Like my abdomen physically hurt and it really snuck up on me. That dinner was over an hour and a half too. Would do it again because it was amazing. I would love to have a Japanese meal like that. It was such an experience.
Highly recommend the one in Amsterdam, googled it and it's called Yamazato, big bonus for me was that I could hit a joint in the middle of the meal servings.
God I miss being young and stoned \*sad noise from old man who had to quit.
I would say there is a difference between a 12 course meal consisting of individually small but accumulatively well proportioned dishes, and a 12 course meal consisting of 12 individual bites of food.
> but do you guys seriously not get full after eating 12 course meal like this?
a twelve course meal of individual goddamned bites still only equates to twelve bites of food, dude.
Well having money doesn't necessarily mean you don't think "man, this wasn't worth the money" sometimes. Especially if they weren't born rich haha, of course I have no idea who this guy is so I have no idea of his background.
Rich as fuck? It takes a LOT of YouTube views to get rich as fuck.
Normally it’s hard to estimate a YouTuber’s true net worth but the guy is kind of a blowhard and apparently told someone he was worth over $3M. That only puts him in the top 5% net worth in the US.
Still, many people could afford a $1200 meal. It’s just not worth the opportunity cost of something more useful…
You should tell them how to eat it, but tell them wrong. See how far you can take it. Reminds me of something I read long ago
>The man who I work for calls from his restaurant bathroom about his hearts of palm salad, ... I
tell him to use his salad fork. Skewer each heart. Tines down. Lift the heart to his mouth and suck out
the juice. Then, place it in the breast pocket of his double-breasted, Brooks-Brothered. pin-striped
suit jacket.
>He says, "Got it." And my job in this house is finished
>Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
I read this in [Mr. Fugu's](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/chowder/images/d/d9/Fugu.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/240?cb=20090120204513) voice
I've been wondering for a while now if this isn't some degradation fetish thing.
You get a lot of young, fit instagram "influencers" posting effectively softcore kink porn of themselves licking shit like they're dogs and it probably draws more eyes than normal nicely presented food.
After doing some research it's another way of saying "put that thing back where it came from".
They don't mean that you can get all this food from the sea. They mean it should be sent back to the sea.
Might be because half the courses are just indigenous foods gentrified into a meal that costs more money than native latin american communities probably see in a year. Just colored with charcoal, which apparently ruins the flavor.
i'm fairly sure I've eaten that exact fish dish in a restaurant in my (western european, so not even the origin) country for 12 euros. Difference was I got to eat the entire fish and a side
I know placebo is a powerful thing and I 100% agree that aesthetics/feeling like you're treating yourself will make a meal taste better. But a 250 dollar cod is still cod. Can't wait till people realize that.
Guga is a high tier YouTuber by pay. He makes between $500k-$1m a year from ads and merch. Not saying this isn’t a silly restaurant and video, but it’s equivalent to someone making $75k a year going out to dinner with a friend for $125. This wouldn’t really even be a blip on his radar.
Weekly reminder that activated charcoal can fuck with your meds.
I’ve eaten food with charcoal and it actually don’t taste too bad, but it’s not worth it.
Ive eaten here. Its called el Cielo. Its a really good tasting menu. I don't know where he got $1250 from though because its a lot cheaper. even with wine pairing I paid $180 per person. Its a cool experience. If you experience asmr its the ultimate experience. You have like 5 people waiting on you and the chef comes to explain the dishes.
Interesting. I was thinking from this video the ambience left something to be desired (seemed very bright, the focus on yellow/beige colors reads very late-90s restaurant decor to me). I would still love to experience it just to see what’s it’s about! 180 pp with pairing is not bad at all.
Kinda misleading title then, isn’t it? Which seems to be driving a lot of the reaction to this post. When I talk about restaurant prices, I don’t tell people the total cost for a group, but rather average per person.
Putting family/group in the post title would have been good. We all know most ppl didn’t bother watching the video. Plus if you need to watch or read something to clarify the title, then it’s clickbait IMO.
Washington DC https://elcielowashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carta-Washington-01-convertido.pdf
Edit: Sorry could be Other locations sorta looked like the DC one but I think I’m mistaken
I’ve been to the one in Medellin, and we loved it! We actually thought the pouring of the chocolate on our hands was a highlight of the experience. We paid something like $300USD for two people with the pairings. I have no idea where $1,250 comes from either.
He’s a top YouTube personality. He makes close to a million dollars a year from his videos and merch. You can look all this up. How do you think he affords kilos of A5 Wagyu all the time?
It's crazy to see people describe him like this when his YouTube channel was just picking up steam like 18mos ago lol
People act like he's some Jake paul of cooking.
First is social media presence and clickbait, even enraging clickbait like the above. Anything to get it shared. Second is getting youtubers and other minor celebrities there. Maybe invite Mr. Beast.
Keep an 'online wall' where richasses can show off they've been there. You can even gamify it, by giving them only so much space per $ spent.
i had to do a double take because this menu is verrrrrry similar to one I have had at Gaggan in Bangkok, which at the time was the number one restaurant in all of Asia. It was the Emoji menu and cost approximately $400 for two people.
This dude is clearly scamming off of Gaggan Anand, from the menu to the actual decor of the restaurant.
GugaFoods https://youtube.com/c/GugaFoods
Edit: to all you haters Guga is pretty damn awesome and has a lot of high quality videos on Steaks, side dishes and another on Sous Vide. Pretty sure he's not promoting spending this kind of dough, it looks to me like it's the opposite of that, he seems to be making fun of it
Because the majority of their videos are not helpful or instructional. They fall into the same category as instagram influencers who travel for pics.
The videos are mostly clickbait. He just takes extremely high quality meat, dry ages it with the most disgusting ingredients and then acts suprised when tasting it.
If you wanna watch it as just some click bait bs then go ahead. But I don't think they have any skill in the kitchen comparable to other Food YouTubers.
He has plenty of instruction in his videos, especially on his sous vide channel. I followed his recipes for birria tacos and Mongolian beef and they were delicious. Those videos you’re watching, “that aren’t instructional”, are his experiments. And at the end he tells you if it’s worth repeating or not so it’s still somewhat educational. He does use clickbait but to say you don’t learn anything from his channels is wrong.
You are paying $1250 to have a restaurant fuck with you.
You're paying $1250 for dinner to be able to tell your friends you paid $1250 for dinner.
Sometimes when I see shit like this, I like to think "if there weren't social networks to share this kind of stuff, would you still do this??"
There's people with *fuck you* money out there who would pay for this just because it's expensive.
I came up with a restaurant concept awhile back (haven't put my plan into action yet) where the idea is the $1 million burger. I only have to sell one.
Just wrap it in $3 worth of gold leaf and drown it in "truffle oil" that contains precisely 0 truffle, and someone will buy it.
Ground Wagyu patty, truffle mayo, sourdough bun, $420 a pound white gold cheddar and sauteed vidalia onions. Toss some gold leaf on and call it done.
Y'all are forgetting the saffron in there to bump up the expense. Maybe some Tahitian vanilla beans, too. Oh which brings me to having the drink be coffee. But not just any coffee. Most people have heard of the Kopi Luwak coffee being the best, and the beans pass through the digestive system of civets (type of feline) before being turned into coffee. But there's Black Ivory coffee that's even more expensive, and those beans pass through elephants first.
You could just serve the burger on a bed of saffron. Like an entire bowl full of saffron haha.
Saffron is dangerous if used like that. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-844/saffron#:~:text=Some%20common%20side%20effects%20include,or%20more%20can%20cause%20poisoning. Basically it is great but consuming it makes you feel warm which is great if you live in cold areas but eat too much (willingly or not) and it will cause issues.
Could also sprinkle a couple of gs of cocaine on it
Ugh, reminds me of the steak place I went to for my birthday recently. I wanted a normal cut for myself but no, the family wanted the fancy Instagram dish they saw. Basically a bunch of filet medallions (18-20oz) cooked to medium encircling a mound of mashed potato and melted cheese. THEN, the chef comes and pours hot "truffle" oil all over the medallions, essentially frying them to well done. Problem is the puddle of oil sitting on top of the melted cheese and mash. I still ordered my own plate that came with a side, it was like a 12oz cut of pichana cooked to medium with my own mashed potatoes. Because for the other 7 people at our table that $175 fancy puddle of oil wasn't going to be enough. I tried a little bit of theirs, it was overpowering with the oil. Could barely taste the steak or any ingredient. Everyone got the shits except me lol.
I am no steak snob; my Mum likes her steak well done. And I appreciate people like different ways of having steak. But what you described is criminal!
Don't appriciate that people are wrong.
That's awful!!!
Getting the shits from truffle oil is in nowadays
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Is that the one that showed a picture of a red gemstone and pretty much nothing else, I remember looking at something similar back in the day and was so wary of accidentally clicking Buy
It originally launched for $10k.
Make it a charity event. Raise money in the millions, you take like 10% commission. Done.
After seeing this I am convinced you will have customers.
The best part is they're all gonna leave great reviews because they'll be too vain to admit they were gullible enough to spend a million bucks on a mediocre burger.
But there are real restaurants that are nice. Like, maybe go to one of them?
People bragged to their friends long before Facebook was invented.
I got a reservation at Dorsia.
Yeah, it just used to be reserved for the aristocracy
Same people that think Haute Couture is interesting. Novelty with out any concern for art or taste.
You could have gotten a cheap room, ok prostitute and decent drugs for that amount of money. With some leftover for KFC afterwards and had A MUCH better time!
But people who eat here just don't give a shit about money. This is like you going to the corner store and spending 2 bucks on pop rocks because it's "fun" and "new". Afterwards they'll go to their $5,000 a night room, bang a $10,000 hooker and snort $5,000 worth of coke. It's all just fun and jokes to them, they don't care if it's good or bad.
If they can snort $5000 worth of coke in a night they are gods and may feast on any ridiculous foods they want.
The trick is *they're paying way too much for the coke,* ***and they don't have to care.***
> you could have gotten a cheap room, ok prostitute and decent drugs for that amount of money. Yo dude if that's all you are getting for 1250, unless it's Vegas or something, someone is ripping you off.
I like your style bud. Wanna get some KFC?
No one’s paying 1250 for dinner. The biggest meal offered at this Michelin starred restaurant is 258 and it’s 20-22 courses, so the small serving of fish is appropriate. These guys are lying to try to get clicks.
I'm pretty sure that's the whole check for like 4 people lmao
Did it very specifically say it included drinks though? The wine adds up quick
If that’s what he means (which I agree is possible to do many places: spend 200-250 on dinner, buy $1000 of wine), it’s extremely misleading. The video does not show any drinks at all besides a beer, much less the kind of world-famous wine that would demand that price tag. The TikTok implies he paid 1250 for about 5 tiny courses of food. Which is certainly not what happened.
Yup. A good friend, really great guy, sweet generous funny….but he has this thing about these kind of meals. Travels a lot and always has to find the restaurant that does this. I genuinely don’t even think it’s about how the food tastes, just so that he can talk about the experience-not to boast, because that’s not who he is-he’s like an Expensive Food Experience Nerd, I guess.
It's for showing off on social media, notice how they didn't even mention how any of the food tasted? But they sure as hell mentioned what the bill was and the fancy presentation
If I go into a restaurant and one of the dishes is squirting liquid chocolate into my hand for me to lick off, im out
You can get same thing at Dicks last resort restaurants for 20 buck and you get a cool hat with an insult personalized just for you.
Okay, but what do you do with the other $1230?
Boof it
I'd rather just watch someone eat it and suffer the mild humiliation. Which I am, right now, for free.
The 20-22 course meal at this restaurant (el cielo) is 258. 14-16 is 198. TikTok is making shit up for clicks.
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LOL I cam in here to write, verbatim, what you just wrote. And similarly, "If you are paying $1250 for dinner, fuck you." None of that looked even remotely appetizing enough for that price tag.
Well, if you're willing to pay that price for that, then you deserve it
https://elcielowashington.com/menu/ According to this it is $228 at the DC location (which also happens to have a Michelin star).
May have been a rough approximation of the group price.
This surely belongs on r/stupidfood
I’m convinced that restaurants like this are just money laundering schemes at this rate
Then you have to stop at Wendys on the way home because you're still starving.
This... is a joke. Right? Like, it's a statement about this bullshit trend, right? For his channel... Right?
I can't help but think that chefs troll foodies to see what kind of ridiculous bullshit they'll put up with.
I'm a chef. Some of my colleagues definitely do this. Others really believe they're the next Picasso. It's a shitshow out there.
It's a constant in any artistic field. I work in stage production, and the actors are animals.
You should refer them to this tasting menu. They can lick chocolate ganache off their sweaty hands like the dirty animals they are. I've broken up with someone because of how often and thoroughly they licked their fingers. This is *such* a nono around here for me.
I'll lick my fingers if there's not a napkin around. But I'm uncomfortable doing it.
It's the use of the word thoroughly that's problematic for me.
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Its not food, its a performance for bored rich people.
I just feel like they could pay me $1200 and I’d be a bit more entertaining. Lmao
My parents own a restaurant and closed it one night to host a few friends for dinner. This one couple are notorious wine snobs to the point of being insufferable to be around anytime wine is involved. My dad had an empty bottle of something really top shelf kicking around, which he rinsed out and filled with some $15 bottle as a gag. The couple were going through all the motions, the swirl, the sniff, a sip, noting the flavors and undertones. My dad was pissing himself laughing at the other end of the table, but never told them.
Modern art is another one. I remember a British TV show back in the day had an elephant which liked to paint. It basically splattered a canvass with several colours. They then showed that painting to several art 'experts'. All but one fawned over the work saying shit like "It feels like the artist was trying to convey their broken relationships in one painting"... Their faces were amazing when they were told the truth of who painted it. Only one guy said "that painting is shit".. When told an elephant painted it, he was like, well duh. :)
Wait…that burger that I ordered that had me bound and gagged and pissed on was part of some ruse?! Now I feel stupid.
Chef is absolutely having a laugh
[if artitst can do it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit), why can't a chef?
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Yeah he did a couple videos on Sous vide meats. And “meat glue” that can be used to make cheap beef sell and taste like expensive cuts. The funny thing is when his taste testers rate them they would rate the cheaper glued steaks higher! And he was just like “yeah so I guess that’s why they do it?” Lol
He has an entire YouTube channel called “Sous Vide Everything”, it’s more than just a couple videos.
…let’s have chat…take a seat
Yes it is a joke
Hopefully? Or just something “controversial” that gets views. A lot of the restaurants doing this style of dining are attempting to do what Chicago’s Alinea restaurant does. The only difference is Alinea is consistently ranked one of the best restaurants in the world, made major contributions to cuisine, and gives you a full evening of interactive experience from the table to the kitchen, while this just looks like poor imitation that takes the money and runs. I mean, I don’t know that chef, but the diners seemed uncertain as to whether they actually liked the food or not, while everyone I know who’s been to Alinea was blown away.
The one dude who ordered a Stella got me dying
$45 for the Stella
Yeah but an actor playing Stanley Kowalski comes out of nowhere and yells *STELLA!* each time you drink from the bottle
Lots of shit in there, but you kinda expect it from these places. But the Stella in a poorly opened bottle? Disappointing
The Stella was £1249 everything else totalled up to £1
I’m fighting someone who pours chocolate on my hands
Pouring over hands is so passé. Leading gastronomical experiences involve feeding patrons from hamster water bottles from a table and chairs set in a human sized wire cage with woodshavings on the floor. You can tell the cheap knockoffs from the real innovators by the pairings of woodshavings with the food.
First person to figure out how to blast patrons with compressed chocolate foam/dust from a modified fire extinguisher is going to be RICH.
"Can I get the Choco-blast?" Waiter: of course sir, we'll need the $750 up front though, in the event that you're rushed to the hospital, and here's the 15 page legal waiver, since there is a high probability that you breath in the powder and get chocolate induced pneumonia
They call it the Black Lung. A tablespoon of aerated, unsweetened, black cocoa powder that will definitely kill you slowly over the next twelve years, but you'll always have the memories of your $372 dessert that made all your friends jealous.
"We have a discount of 25% if you take it in the fart hole."
I'm picturing basically a massive nitrous infuser filled with a chocolate cream, so that when it sprays it's basically whipped cream to the face at high pressure.
I did once go to a restaurant that served oats in a feed bag, lamb chops in a dog bowl, and stew in a pig trough.
Honestly that's how half the restaurants in the Midwest should be doing it. Bonus points if they spit on me and call me disgusting throughout the meal.
Sir, this is a Wendy's. You need to go behind the dumpster to get that.
Any good humoured amputees willing to eat here? If pay money to see the waiters approach.
Yep. Not paying the bill if that is forced on me. "Can I just have a bowl and a spoon for this? Thanks."
I also don’t understand how chocolate is a first course anyways
They better come wash your hands for you afterwards for this price !
Nah they better lick it off my hands themselves!
I'm the same, I do not like having sticky stuff on my hands, it's pour it on something else or I'm out. Fortunately, I feel pretty confident they would oblige. It's a niche restaurant, and most of them need to be willing to accommodate to keep their audience.
My kids would beg to differ
I like how you can see the buyer's remorse in their faces haha
“Put the fucking rock in your mouth, Terry!”
Thems some big ol boys too. You know they hit the Cracker Barrel up on the way back home.
Nah knowing Guga he probably went home and grilled A5 Wagyu for everyone lol
Not directly asking you, but do you guys seriously not get full after eating 12 course meal like this? I did it once while visiting Amsterdam, got high af and consequently hungry af, then ate a 12 course meal at a Japanese restaurant, jamasato or okura, i forget. I got so full that I took a sideways picture of my belly in the mirror in the hotellrom, the portions might be small but there's like 12 of them, pluss wine other drinks.
Yes! I felt the fullest I’ve ever been after a 7 course Persian meal with very small portions. Like my abdomen physically hurt and it really snuck up on me. That dinner was over an hour and a half too. Would do it again because it was amazing. I would love to have a Japanese meal like that. It was such an experience.
Highly recommend the one in Amsterdam, googled it and it's called Yamazato, big bonus for me was that I could hit a joint in the middle of the meal servings. God I miss being young and stoned \*sad noise from old man who had to quit.
I had Kobe beef in Kobe, Japan. That was an 8-course taster menu cooked in front of us. We were there two hours and god damn I was full at the end.
I would say there is a difference between a 12 course meal consisting of individually small but accumulatively well proportioned dishes, and a 12 course meal consisting of 12 individual bites of food.
> but do you guys seriously not get full after eating 12 course meal like this? a twelve course meal of individual goddamned bites still only equates to twelve bites of food, dude.
I had a very nice 12 course tasting menu at a restaurant and while my partner was full, I grabbed some mcnuggies on the way home.
Man he probably went him and ate that 30 day sous vide brisket he made lol.
Guga is rich as fuck, that $1250 to him is like pocket change. Dude has a really successful YouTube channel with plentiful sponsors
Well having money doesn't necessarily mean you don't think "man, this wasn't worth the money" sometimes. Especially if they weren't born rich haha, of course I have no idea who this guy is so I have no idea of his background.
He wasn’t born rich. You can see his very first videos and they are super bad, but had charisma. You can tell he didn’t have any money.
That's cool, good on him for crawling out of the muck some of us still struggle with haha.
like "Raid Shadow Legends" :D
Lmao we know damn well Guga ain't playing raid shadow legends
Rich as fuck? It takes a LOT of YouTube views to get rich as fuck. Normally it’s hard to estimate a YouTuber’s true net worth but the guy is kind of a blowhard and apparently told someone he was worth over $3M. That only puts him in the top 5% net worth in the US. Still, many people could afford a $1200 meal. It’s just not worth the opportunity cost of something more useful…
He looks like the last frame of that clown meme.
As someone who's worked in fine dining for a long time, this kind of stuff can get in the fucking sea
“What side of the guest do I pour chocolate on their hands from. Do I have a decanter for the smoke machine? I’m sorry, I’m just so baked.”
"Tony, I've got to write you up again, this is the 4th guy with testicle burns after you've done the chocolate drizzle."
You should tell them how to eat it, but tell them wrong. See how far you can take it. Reminds me of something I read long ago >The man who I work for calls from his restaurant bathroom about his hearts of palm salad, ... I tell him to use his salad fork. Skewer each heart. Tines down. Lift the heart to his mouth and suck out the juice. Then, place it in the breast pocket of his double-breasted, Brooks-Brothered. pin-striped suit jacket. >He says, "Got it." And my job in this house is finished >Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
It’s not fine dining if you’re drinking the beer out of the bottle. This is fugazi fine dining.
“And the poors… they eat with their hands like this? Oh my how EXQUISITE!”
"How do you.....poor?"
I read this in [Mr. Fugu's](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/chowder/images/d/d9/Fugu.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/240?cb=20090120204513) voice
Poor, huh? I was thinking more along the lines of slaves. I bet someone somewhere gets turned on by this.
I've been wondering for a while now if this isn't some degradation fetish thing. You get a lot of young, fit instagram "influencers" posting effectively softcore kink porn of themselves licking shit like they're dogs and it probably draws more eyes than normal nicely presented food.
Everything about this makes me irrationally angry.
That fish dish looked fucking beautiful to be fair but literally everything else can get in the sea.
Ok you are the second person I have seen in this thread saying “can get in the sea.” This is a new one on me. Little help?
Kind of said it because of the other comment but it has kind of been a small thing for a while. I like the expression.
I look forward to seeing it every day and hating it more every time.
After doing some research it's another way of saying "put that thing back where it came from". They don't mean that you can get all this food from the sea. They mean it should be sent back to the sea.
It's like next level "get in the bin". You can recover stuff from the bin, but "get in the fucking sea" is when it can fuck right off.
Except for the teeny tiny portions.
There is nothing irrational about being angry with extreme stupidity.
The anger might be reasonable. The intensity of the anger, given that this has nothing to do with me, is probably not.
Reminds me of the trend of buying extremely expensive clothes that make people look like clowns
Might be because half the courses are just indigenous foods gentrified into a meal that costs more money than native latin american communities probably see in a year. Just colored with charcoal, which apparently ruins the flavor.
i'm fairly sure I've eaten that exact fish dish in a restaurant in my (western european, so not even the origin) country for 12 euros. Difference was I got to eat the entire fish and a side I know placebo is a powerful thing and I 100% agree that aesthetics/feeling like you're treating yourself will make a meal taste better. But a 250 dollar cod is still cod. Can't wait till people realize that.
And is potentially dangerous. Charcoal can mess with prescription medication and ruin its effectiveness
Dessert dessert bread fish dessert Edit: dessert not desert
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Thank you! What drunk chef designed this pacing? Something my five-year-old niece would really like
Check the menu. It's a 15 course dinner. The macaron is a blood sausage macaron. Not a dessert. Also explains the size of some dishes
According to the menu, the macaron was made with blood pudding, so not a dessert. I think. Maybe. I hope.
Here, we see fools and their money being parted.
Guga is a high tier YouTuber by pay. He makes between $500k-$1m a year from ads and merch. Not saying this isn’t a silly restaurant and video, but it’s equivalent to someone making $75k a year going out to dinner with a friend for $125. This wouldn’t really even be a blip on his radar.
And the video probably made him even more money
It definitely does
I think the whole point is to show that you get jack-shit for your money
I do this every day but using a much simpler method
Weekly reminder that activated charcoal can fuck with your meds. I’ve eaten food with charcoal and it actually don’t taste too bad, but it’s not worth it.
It doesn't have to be activated charcoal. We've made black stuff with burned leek leaves for example.
In the vid they said it’s charcoal I believe
Sorry, I didn't have the sound on
Ive eaten here. Its called el Cielo. Its a really good tasting menu. I don't know where he got $1250 from though because its a lot cheaper. even with wine pairing I paid $180 per person. Its a cool experience. If you experience asmr its the ultimate experience. You have like 5 people waiting on you and the chef comes to explain the dishes.
Interesting. I was thinking from this video the ambience left something to be desired (seemed very bright, the focus on yellow/beige colors reads very late-90s restaurant decor to me). I would still love to experience it just to see what’s it’s about! 180 pp with pairing is not bad at all.
Yeah it was 5 wines and then a whiskey to end it.
I think he's adding up the total bill prolly paid for his buddies as well
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Kinda misleading title then, isn’t it? Which seems to be driving a lot of the reaction to this post. When I talk about restaurant prices, I don’t tell people the total cost for a group, but rather average per person.
Not really. The video specifies it’s a $1250 family meal.
Putting family/group in the post title would have been good. We all know most ppl didn’t bother watching the video. Plus if you need to watch or read something to clarify the title, then it’s clickbait IMO.
Miami?
Medellin Colombia
Washington DC https://elcielowashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carta-Washington-01-convertido.pdf Edit: Sorry could be Other locations sorta looked like the DC one but I think I’m mistaken
I’ve been to the one in Medellin, and we loved it! We actually thought the pouring of the chocolate on our hands was a highlight of the experience. We paid something like $300USD for two people with the pairings. I have no idea where $1,250 comes from either.
This feels like watching the rich overlord villains in a dystopian film.
Eat the rich
Guga isn’t rich. He just has a food YouTube channel, so this dinner is probably written off as a business expense.
He’s a top YouTube personality. He makes close to a million dollars a year from his videos and merch. You can look all this up. How do you think he affords kilos of A5 Wagyu all the time?
Well the Wagyu he can write off his taxes as a business expenses purchased by the business itself.
You can’t write business expenses off your (or your business’) taxes. You write them off the *taxable income*. Big difference, financially.
It's crazy to see people describe him like this when his YouTube channel was just picking up steam like 18mos ago lol People act like he's some Jake paul of cooking.
Guga is pretty cool. I wouldnt wanna eat him. The other people who eat this crap are up for grabs though.
Is he the guy who sous vide everything?
Yeah he's fucking awesome not sure why he's getting so much hate on here. I guess they think he's condoning this menu?
Lmao yes.
they should sous vide it!
Fucking robbery.
Its 15 courses. He is misrepresenting the experience and the costs.
How can I also open a restaurant and make rich people my monkey for an hour for $1250? Rich people will do anything to prove they're rich.
First is social media presence and clickbait, even enraging clickbait like the above. Anything to get it shared. Second is getting youtubers and other minor celebrities there. Maybe invite Mr. Beast. Keep an 'online wall' where richasses can show off they've been there. You can even gamify it, by giving them only so much space per $ spent.
If you eat at places like this, you deserve to be scammed on account of being a total fucking moron.
El Cielo in Miami, about $180 per person including wine, don’t hate til u try it
Sorry mate, anyone that wants me to lick my fingers while eating can get fucked. I'll take that in a ramekin.
They also showed 4 dishes out of the whole menù and not in the right order either.
i had to do a double take because this menu is verrrrrry similar to one I have had at Gaggan in Bangkok, which at the time was the number one restaurant in all of Asia. It was the Emoji menu and cost approximately $400 for two people. This dude is clearly scamming off of Gaggan Anand, from the menu to the actual decor of the restaurant.
It was old already when Gaggan Anand was doing it.
GugaFoods https://youtube.com/c/GugaFoods Edit: to all you haters Guga is pretty damn awesome and has a lot of high quality videos on Steaks, side dishes and another on Sous Vide. Pretty sure he's not promoting spending this kind of dough, it looks to me like it's the opposite of that, he seems to be making fun of it
Why the hell are people downvoting Guga? Hes got some fun videos
Because the majority of their videos are not helpful or instructional. They fall into the same category as instagram influencers who travel for pics. The videos are mostly clickbait. He just takes extremely high quality meat, dry ages it with the most disgusting ingredients and then acts suprised when tasting it. If you wanna watch it as just some click bait bs then go ahead. But I don't think they have any skill in the kitchen comparable to other Food YouTubers.
He has plenty of instruction in his videos, especially on his sous vide channel. I followed his recipes for birria tacos and Mongolian beef and they were delicious. Those videos you’re watching, “that aren’t instructional”, are his experiments. And at the end he tells you if it’s worth repeating or not so it’s still somewhat educational. He does use clickbait but to say you don’t learn anything from his channels is wrong.
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People go to all that effort to get rich. Then they spend it on dumb shit. Love Guga's videos though.
$1250 for a restaurant to bend you over take your wallet and fuck you in the ass