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So you work in a kitchen well respected for its local and creative cuisine. You work hard and long hours, you contribute to the menu and you are praised by the heavy hitters in the industry. Good for you, but that has no weight with me. Your experience does not give you the right to chastise or critique my work in the kitchen, nor does it develop a rapport on which I would rely for advice. Your overbearing and machismo attitude has got to go. With respect,
—Get out of my kitchen
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2015.
micro managers are the worst
^^^ Yes, I hate really teeny tiny little mangers too.
Or it’s possible that the person doesn’t take criticism well!
There’s such a thing called constructive criticism and maybe you do suck in the kitchen!
The longest-lasting and most successful restaurants in this city are the ones that do the standard stuff very well, not those that view cooking as an art somehow removed from the consumer. The cooks in such places aren’t playing with the food so much as they are preparing it with their mothers watching, occasionally slipping the odd new flavour in when she’s not looking but always hoping she can’t tell the difference except to say “This is better.” There’s a regular and varied clientele; the old dolls stopping in for tea after a morning’s shopping; the old men with their coffee and newspapers bantering back and forth about politics and other sports; nostalgic aging hipsters and their wee ones doing lunch on a Saturday or Sunday after payday; the students on an afternoon date wanting to dawdle over a burger platter or a couple slices of pie or cheesecake. One does not go far wrong by cooking with a love for others and a few basic skills. One can be a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and utterly screw up a dish because one was so focused on its presentation or the technique that one forgot who they were doing it for.
^^^ well said HalKell. A good example is Vinnie’s Pasta on Inglis. Very ordinary decor but good basic Italian food and modest prices.
“Very ordinary decor”…
the outside facade makes it look like a complete dive.
Haha!
Oh you guys are serious about the food here. That’s it’s great!