Hello, hello!
To be honest, I am struggling here people... I promised I won't blog about bad service or horrible food much, but it's actually way much harder as I thought...

In the last few weeks I have visited several restaurants and trust me it's hard to find anything good to report. Not because I go to bad places. It's because people think opening and running a kitchen is a piece of cake.

This made me think. How much time and energy do we actually invest in finding a good restaurant or a proper butcher? Why do we pick certain restaurants? Since fame is not equal to quality, there must be a reason why bad restaurants are packed and enjoy a great image, while offering warmed up canned food quality. How well educated are we on gastronomy, hospitality and on food in general? How much do we expect to get once we sit down to a table we had to reserve a few weeks in advance?

I tend to say, we do know a beep, but not much more. Which is unfortunate, yet it's not a crime.
There are plenty of ways to get educated on these matters. If you are interested. The problem is, that we all go to restaurants and only open our mouth to order or get a bite, but never to complain or give a compliment. Like blind eating machines with poor taste receptors. And it shows. On the quality of the service, on the quality of the food, on the unbelievably cheap preparation and presentation of the dishes... Just sad... The other day, I've tried some beef tartar, and it was so horrible, that I actually felt bad about that particular animal, who lost its life to end up so badly prepared on a plate. A wasted life and clearly just waste of money...

You are what you eat. Even if you eat in the restaurant, you are what you eat. Don't forget that and open your mouth if you don't want to turn into that tasteless, ugly something on your plate....