A bona fide food “destination” will offer everything from stunning street vendors to a range of Michelin starred cuisine. It’s as simple as that. Any place that doesn’t, isn’t. Little to nothing is lacking. The entire spectrum is well-represented.
Being a ‘foodie’ (I hate that term) means investing in dining experiences, not just cookware.
I couldn’t count the number of hot dogs and pretzels I’ve eaten from Manhattan street vendors over the years. Nor can I count, at my now rather advanced age, how many times I’ve eaten at Michelin starred restaurants. It’s become fashionable to knock Michelin these days, but it’s still the pinnacle, regardless of what a random TV chef or somebody with a chip on their shoulder has to say on the subject.
Everybody, have a great weekend. Moms – enjoy your Mother’s Day.
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This is. typically, hyperbolic. It’s also plainly wrong, given the way most people use words.
IMO, a ‘food destination’ is nothing more than a place someone goes to enjoy food. There are countless counterexamples to all that other stuff you engraft onto the term.
A city with a fully-developed culinary landscape will have everything from great street vendors up to and including Michelin starred restaurants (plural!) and all the in-between.
You not living in one is your problem, not mine.
Take up SCUBA diving or surfing, then you can claim you live in one of the best places in the world for something, because for food – you don’t.
Sorry.
You talking about food, with authority borne from experience, is like me talking about getting barreled in the East River - silly on its face.
There doesn’t seem to be a single piece of equipment you haven’t used, haven’t owned, nor is there any product you haven’t cooked or technique you haven’t mastered. It’s all very embarrassing to be honest with you. Tone it down. You aren’t fooling anybody. If the totality of your posts on Chowhound and here were considered, you’d walk into Le Bernardin and fire Eric Ripert for being a total hack.
I’m happy, however, to leave you to the little fiefdom you have here. Enjoy it. Even in my semi-retirement I don’t have enough time to check in every day and debate you and your latest silliness, or your delusion that you have some sort of culinary bona fides.
Charlie, many people make “food destinations” of unstarred resturants in rural areas, single establishments, sources of food ingredients, pop-up stands with no restaurants at all, food festivals, fairs, foraging, instruction, source viniculture, farm stands, U-picks, native foods, famous dives or chefs, new places, etc. The list goes on and on.
You know so much, yet you turn your back on a huge % of the food world. For what? I feel sorry for you if your destinations are limited to just eating, much less in big cities at $$$ places.
Okay, if you have to. You’ll be missed.
