today's special

Posted by Unknown On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 0 comments
Over the years I have loved to have some 'new blood, Joe Allen, the infamous American articulation, Covent Garden, and asking "a good hamburger, cheese, no bacon." I'm enjoying the confusion in front of my dining companion and rifle through the menu, the chicken had forgotten the order. Hamburger, which is fantastic, is not on the menu, and 32 years remained a mystery for many, can be reached only by those special to be aware of.

But wait! It has recently been visited by Joe Allen, I was horrified to mention the secret of this dish blatantly advertised on the door next to the menu. "Try the burger secret," he urged. Secret? I felt betrayed. I ordered chicken and sulking, I asked the waiter to have been chosen to flaunt it. "Since people heard about it and then complain that it is not on the menu," he said. "But it will never appear in the menu itself."

Not to be confused with the consumer demanding (the American way of dressing to "side"), or even design your own meal (unreasonable and rude, if invited) Ordering off the menu is a delight.

today's special


My first taste of it was in Prague in the 1990s, when I went to a restaurant by a local who loved his steak tartare. "We'll eat out Club JB," he almost whispered, "They are not on the menu!" The raw ground sirloin mixed with chopped onions, egg yolk and seasoning at the table by the personnel who controlled the spice was good for my friend, offering him bits to try. I shared his hand and felt like a member of an exclusive club.

How did it start? Perhaps the restaurants developed the idea of ​​serving dishes after illumination felt important enough to ask first. In the 1920s, the English playwright Arnold Bennett asked the chefs at the Savoy to prepare something special. Was upgraded to incorporate a smoked haddock omelette cheese, parmesan cheese and cream, which pleased as Bennett, said he is ready, where he traveled. The "Tortilla Arnold Bennett" has remained a standard for Savoy dish.

Many weight-obsessed celebrities extraordinary dishes off the menu, consider the scene in Get Shorty when Danny De Vito, networking at The Ivy, orders egg white omelettes for the entire table that no key - pure Hollywood. High-profile footballers are known for their strange requests. For example, it was once reported in the Liverpool Echo, the former striker Titi Camara once asked a risotto with "rice is not too much," and for an Atomic Kitten singer once known as Angel Delight made with milk soybeans, and apparently committed cook.

Chef at times a popular dish from the menu so that it gives the wrong impression to new customers. Bryan Webb, one star Michelin restaurant, Tyddyn Llan North Wales is a salad with fennel, artichokes, dried tomatoes and shaved parmesan cheese that was on its menu, many years ago, with many still regularly required. Bryan is happy to oblige. I have the impression that keeps him off the menu because it looks a little 'in 1990.

According to Tony Penny Black Ho restaurant in Chelsea, leaving his popular dish of fish and chips off the menu is not elitism, is not insurance against the existence of a misunderstanding about what kind of restaurant it is. "We want to avoid association with pub-style food." Sounds luxury for me.

London gastropub Paradise By way of Kensal Green allows any customer outside the menu, but for me it's not the same as having a dish known only to a few. Other restaurants offer menus with the desire to accommodate the difficult child, or those with food allergies. A chef at a restaurant of some reputation Yorkshire told me that recently came to dinner and asked him to make a cheese salad cart. The bound.

On the other hand, some restaurants are so rigid in their menu, it feels like a "take it or leave it" approach. When dining at an expensive restaurant recently and acclaimed French with a vegetarian friend asked me if we could hit the head risotto (the only vegetarian offering was the eggplant, which my friend hates to eat). The chief refused. We went.

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