The Michelin Mistake

[Jeff Grossman]

Bouche à Oreille

A friend asks: "I'm having kind of a foodie existential crisis. Does the restaurant make the star, or the star make the restaurant? If I ate there while it had its accidental Michelin star, did I eat at a Michelin-star restaurant? Would the food have tasted better because the chef thought he was cooking Michelin star-grade food? Or would the same food have tasted better because I thought the restaurant had a star?"

 

[robert ames]

and proust wonders, "if the perfect madeleine goes uneaten, is it perfect?"

and what about when a place is so mobbed by people that no one ever goes there anymore?

 

[Levi Dalton]

Thanks for sharing this, Jeff. I found it amusing.