‘I worked in a Michelin star restaurant and you should never order the steak’
28.05.2022 - 01:47
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A former Michelin star restaurant worker has revealed some of the hidden tips and tricks diners should exercise when visiting a fine dining establishment.
The person, who wished to remain anonymous, worked under an executive chef at a top class eatery and has given a few pointers as to how you can maximise your gourmet experience.
Top-end fine dining restaurants are renowned for having high-pressure kitchens, where perfection is the standard and any slacking could see you on the wrong end of a Gordon Ramsay style dressing down, report Mirror Online.
This practiced perfection allows these places to charge large sums of money to eat at their exclusive establishments, but there are more than a few tricks to get some freebies or cut down on the eye-watering bill.
I worked for a few years under an executive chef at a one Michelin star restaurant. I worked briefly as a waiter before going onto become a chef working 70-hour weeks in an understaffed kitchen.
Through this intensive crash course in haute cuisine, I fell into the cooking world and really saw how the saucisson (sausage) was made - while learning a few tricks of the trade along the way that might make your next visit to a posh eatery a little easier, or even cheaper.
Whether you want to know what not to order, which wine to get, or even just how to turn plates of food into works of art, there are plenty of tricks to make sure your experience is catered to you. After all, the customer is always right.
The unspoken truth about making delicious food is that the palate wants what it really shouldn’t have, salt and fat. This is why the real secret to those rich, delicious, meals that taste so much better than what you make at home, is that the chef knows to have a heavy