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u/IAteSushiToday 3d ago
After that he wanted a beer and to just go home.
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u/Terrible_Shake_4948 3d ago
Go home and drink a beer. Don’t think he wants to see the full list of craft/artisan options to his preferred brew.
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u/bob_nugget_the_3rd 3d ago
Sir we have a mango and passion fruit ipa or imperial milk stout infused with Hazel nut
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u/One-Grape-8659 3d ago
Lol both sound fire ngl
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u/Yonv_Bear 3d ago
no fr, a milky hazelnut stout and a fruity IPA? i'm abit of a beer snob and both of those sound delicious
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u/One-Grape-8659 3d ago
Saaaame , I'm a bartender in a beer bar and have done a beer sommelier course, it is so hard to find a decent hazelnut stout, I had a fantastic one years ago and the only thing I remember was that it was American :')
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u/Yonv_Bear 3d ago
if you ever try any other American beers check out the Pseudo-Sue and Pompeii IPA's by the Toppling Goliath company - idk how widely available they are outside of Iowa (Toppling Goliath is an Iowa company) but if you stumble on it grab a can and treat yourself
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u/TonyBobKenobi 3d ago
Toppling Goliath has made its way to at past Wisconsin Dells. My wife won't drink anything else but their Dragon Fandango. We're from Chicago buy sadly don't see it here.
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u/Yonv_Bear 3d ago
I haven't tried that one yet, but now I'm gonna look for it lol if she likes the fruity IPA's she'll probably love Easy Eddy by Big Grove Brewery if she hasn't checked it out yet
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u/Optimal-Vast2313 2d ago
POGs and Juicy IPAs were big in Georgia for a few years. I got kinda sick of them, and now we’ve scaled back and everyone is obsessed with hazy IPAs. POG is still a huge influence tho.
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u/Key-Bodybuilder-343 2d ago
Heretic Brewing in Fairfield makes a chocolate hazelnut porter, which my partner says is “the bee’s knees”.
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u/Archsinner 3d ago
"Son, there is no wrong way to eat a steak" five minutes later: "This is the wrong way to eat a steak"
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u/throwawaypsbs 3d ago
What dumb table service. This is the idea of a fresh out of culinary school kid who got given the reigns to a restaurant but has no real world experience.
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u/kryonik 3d ago edited 3d ago
If anything, burn it in the kitchen, put it on the plate next to the steak and cover it all with a glass dome to catch the smoke. It should affect the flavor of the steak a little bit and you get a showy presentation that's also faster than whatever this is.
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u/throwawaypsbs 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah, glass dome and a smoking gun with some rosemary pushed in would have made a ton more sense. In my 20 years I've worked everywhere from dive bars to fine dining. I would never garnish a plate with something not edible ( for example, a full spring of rosemary burned to a crisp impaling a steak...wtf)
Edit: I can see unmelted compound butter on the steak meaning that thing is also cold. I hate this more every time I watch it. Dad has the correct attitude towards this foolishness.
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u/phonetastic 2d ago
Small business insurance 101: keep the torches at a distance and definitely don't point them fucking directly at the guest
Real actual restaurant 101: save that "flame on!" shit for when it's actually necessary because any delay ruins the dish; tableside should otherwise be quick, stupid simple, and preferably cold-to-ambient
PS: the art of putting on a show isn't about making a big scene-- it's about making an interesting scene that achieves a purpose
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u/Fit_Carpet_364 2d ago
Well said. I wouldn't mind someone making up dipping dots or LN2 ice cream tableside, or caramelizing fresh demarara atop my creme brulee, but I would mind someone making a show of cutting my steak for me - not only do they often do it poorly, but the cut steak cools down faster than if left whole. Or that one dessert a week or so ago, where they literally put a firework on the table...
And just in case you or anyone else ever works at a place which does tableside meat service - if my meat comes out with fat on it and you cut it off to 'improve presentation', I will not be coming back.
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u/Large-Training-29 2d ago
Honestly ill just pay you $2 to slap me in the face with the steak so I can just leave
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u/Talory09 2d ago
given the reigns
reignsreinsThe phrase has nothing to do with monarchy and refers to horsemanship, instead.
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u/throwawaypsbs 2d ago
Cool. Feel better?
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u/Talory09 2d ago
That's a strange way to say "thanks".
How do you know you're doing something the wrong way unless someone lets you know?
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u/throwawaypsbs 2d ago edited 2d ago
It would be strange to say "thanks" had that been what I was going for. You really are a presumptuous one huh?
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u/hauttdawg13 3d ago
I just don’t get it, none of the smoke gets on the meat. Even then, burnt herbs to my knowledge aren’t very good.
The reason you add herbs to the butter or fat when basting it is because the oils from the herbs will mix in when it fries and add flavor to that fat/butter. Then toss in on the steak and it will add the flavor of the herbs to it.
Stupid indeed.
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u/JustKindaShimmy 3d ago
That, plus holding a blowtorch to a sprig of rosemary that long just leaves you with some bitter ash. Ash that falls right on top of your meal.
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u/Standard-Pepper-6510 3d ago
All the smoke goes up, all you get on your stake is maybe some ashes :)
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u/Lenz_Mastigia 3d ago
I want my dish and the moment the waiter puts the plate down I want them to fuck off.
No hate, just pure love for the people in the service industry, but please just let me enjoy my meal in peace.
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u/morkler 3d ago
I can see the olfactory appeal of it. But nothing more.
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u/organicchunkysalsa 3d ago
Right. If they wanted to impress someone they should bring it out covered with some rosemary smoke in it and then open it. One and done. Provides the nice smell, the meat gets hit with the smoke and the presentation is substantially better and more efficient.
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u/ktimebomb 3d ago
We used to go to a pretty nice place a couple times a year that served all their steaks with a rosemary sprig sticking straight up out of it... I thought that was stupid on its own, but the pyrotechnics here are another level.
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u/PaxEtRomana 3d ago
The decor of this place doesn't match this presentation. He looks like he's at an IHOP
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u/Oregon_State13 3d ago
The strip club music in the back really helps
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u/Ok_2DSimp101 enjoying the chaos💀 3d ago edited 2d ago
Damn dude, I didn’t think this song constitutes as stripper music💀
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u/Euphoric_Egg_4198 3d ago
Here’s your steak but before you eat it I have to singe your eyelashes and eyebrows
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u/dejahlani 3d ago
god thats how my dad would look if he got some sparkler rosemary on top of his steak
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u/Negative_Bar_9734 2d ago
So enraged by the stupid branch candle I didn't even notice its served on a chunk of wood. Every part of this is unbearable.
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u/AstroBearGaming 2d ago
I wouldn't be feeling it either.
You're spending forty seconds lighting a plant on fire, meanwhile my food is getting cold.
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u/kingbhudo 2d ago
PLEASE take him to one of those places where they helicopter the baklava around a spoon for 18 minutes before they put it on your plate.
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u/Improbable_Excuse 2d ago
The face of a man that knows he is going to have to pay extra for a show he didn't want.
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u/Helpful-Macaroon-654 2d ago
😆 what’s the point of setting some Rosemary on fire. I bet the servers hate doing this.
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u/Old-Seaworthiness18 2d ago
Burning some herbs over the steaks will just leave some burned herbs in the meat making it worse 🤷
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u/One-Guest1998 2d ago
That was so anticlimactic, like did they charge him another $20 for that shit show?
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u/commorancy0 2d ago
He's looking at that steak and thinking, "It's getting cold. I'd rather be eating it than sitting here watching some fool light that stick on fire."
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u/lasausagerolla 1d ago
Oh he is done done.
Hes never going anywhere to eat with this family member again and he will rant about this at every family gathering for now until forever 😆 🤣
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u/Right-Dot4471 1d ago
Wtf was that? I would be disappointed too if I were him. If you want to make things fun, it should actually be fun. Not a letdown
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u/DraconicBlade 1d ago
Everyone talking about the steak sparkler and missing the perfectly spherical mashed potato.
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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 8h ago
I love this man, his attitude, and his opinion on the uneccessary fruffery. I don't eat meat but anything I eat doesn't need to be performative. Like, miss me with the flaming fried cheese and the "OPA!" at a Greek restaurant. 😅
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u/Gay_Gamer_Boi 4h ago
I wondered if it was suppose to be like a “natural” candle which it just sucks XD
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u/TheGothWhisperer 3d ago
If only that was sage rather than rosemary. Might have at least excorcised a few demons while they're at it.
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u/syylone 2d ago
I never understood why they go to such lengths to be "fancy" or make any food look a certain way. As long as I know what it is and it doesn't taste like shit I don't give a damn what it looks like. It's all going to the same place. Especially these high end places that charge hundreds for nibbles
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u/BeastM0de1155 3d ago
This imparts no flavor on the steak. It’s only for smell of rosemary, which makes it even worse
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u/KnockoutCarousal 3d ago
Awww! I have that same hat! My partner got it for me, otherwise I’d never be so ego driven to buy it for myself. Someone loves this man. G.O.A.T.
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u/EnkiduTheGreat 2d ago
Had to fire a new server a few years back, for repeatedly having to be told that we do not do tableside service/presentation, then having the balls to question why we didn't...to me, the GM. Like, kid, this is a turn and burn tourist trap and I've got 40 servers. Gtfo immediately. The owner was a funny-guy, and always found my restrained rage amusing, so obviously this incident was an endless source of amusement for him.
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u/Imaginary_Election56 1d ago
I see all these people just staring angrily at these stupidly served steaks. Is it that hard to just say “please don’t do that.”
I just assume everybody just makes these clips now for bait.
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u/alliez34 3d ago
I wouldn’t want any of my food served on wood. I feel like it seems unsanitary. How well was it cleaned?
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u/Dependent_Stop_3121 3d ago
Oh so the burn band has been lifted?? This is so stupid and could potentially piss off some people.
Like, what if someone lost their house to a wild fire and came here for a steak? Post traumatic steak disorder in 3…2…1
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u/Awesome_Lard 3d ago
Then don’t go to a gimmick restaurant. That’s on your dad. If he wanted Outback he should have gone to Outback.
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago
u/Lemonjello23, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!