£8.80 for charcuterie and cheese platter for two, 81 Church Street, no phone, publik.co.za/publik-wine-bar Fashionable Camps Bay is lined with swish, expensive diners with superb views of the ocean.
According to its critics, Michelin's white, middle-aged, middle class male inspectors (a profile Burr denies), promote a - what chef Yves Camdeborde once labelled, "cuisine de snob" - of such luxury and labour-intensive complexity that pursuing and maintaining a star is economically unsustainable for many restaurants, and incredibly expensive for diners.
Although typically a more expensive option, diners also can order a la carte.
Miriam, in Park Slope (with another location in Cobble Hill) is one of those great neighborhood places that may not get a lot of attention, but serves up food that is not much more expensive than a diner, but significantly better.
By Andrea Thompson November 12, 2008 Miriam, in Park Slope (with another location in Cobble Hill) is one of those great neighborhood places that may not get a lot of attention, but serves up food that is not much more expensive than a diner, but significantly better.
And this led to talk of other restaurants that, like Romera, presented diners with expensive, stage-managed tasting menus, involving many dainty courses and scant choice.
Naturally, certain environmental groups and chefs are worried that escaped mutant fish might ruin natural salmon stocks, create unimagined havoc in the wild and further annoy the already high-strung diners at expensive restaurants.
To prove that beer is becoming more popular than vodka (and thus that drinking is now somehow less of a problem), the reporter marched into an expensive restaurant and asked diners to choose between free vodka or beer.
That's the thing about many restaurants: they're as expensive, or reasonable, as a diner asks them to be.
Alas, it doesn't manage to do any of them very well quite expensive for not particularly good diner fare.
When diners order an expensive wine from a restaurant menu, they usually find that it tastes exquisite, harmonious, elegant--in short, much better than the $8 Cabernet they drink at home.
