Damn, that looks great. Is there some sort of protein substitute in there? I think I see what looks like a chunk of tofu, but not sure.
Yeah, thereās some kind of soy meat.
Going to this place in a week managed to get reservations before they won.
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Iāve actually been to a surprising amount of this year james beard award places. Some of the awards in the south are flat out weird. Chai Pani won like best restaurant in America. its a really cute indian street food place in asheville that i enjoyed but seriously?
Also best chef in the south went to Salt Box Shack in Durham which ive been to many times. It is a fried fish and coleslaw place. Good fried fish (meh slaw) dont get me wrong, but best chef? Thats a pretty strange over compensation. Frying seafood well is a great skill but thats the entite extent of the cooking in that place
Bourdain rips on the Beard House guest kitchen thing in Medium Raw. Not sure if that applies to the whole foundation.
He also kinda rips on French Laundry - saying itās too excessive and he didnāt enjoy it nearly as much on his second trip years later.
Thatās what we started with so hmm
I want to order that whole menu
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Food B maybe. Starter great, we had both tacos pretty good, duck sausage terrible, flavorless and worse, dry. Service D, waited forever for first contact and then she gabbed with table next to us for like 10 minutes while we had nothing in and nothing in front of us. Also forgot one of the tacos 
Wife made up for it by tipping 5% by accident because she canāt math. (thereās a 18% autograt)
French laundry booked for 2 throughout August in under a minute.
My tock game is weak.
Yeah, its tough, good luck next month!
We booked Manresa in Los Gatos instead. 10 year anniversary in early September, canāt risk it.
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Does this mean French Laundry is undercharging itās customers if the supply of reservations dries up this quickly?
I would say yes, Iām sure they could double the base price and still sellout instantly.
Those are $8,200 nachos, dawg
Usually we post pictures of food before it is digested.
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sorry, couldnāt score a reservation at atomix