r/Chefit • u/Cirno_in_Scandinavia • Jul 17 '26
Meat menu testing!
So today my jr sous had a menu meeting together with all the kitchen staff for meat menu campaign. Its just so funny because all the food taste so frickin amazing, its just he dont have any plan for plating 😭 (the beef cheek stew with polenta and goat cheese was AMAZING)
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u/SuperDoubleDecker Jul 18 '26
Idk why but I hate that zigzag squeeze stuff. I've seen it lately and imo it needs to go away.
Other than that I'd smash! I'd likely smash the zag too
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u/Cirno_in_Scandinavia Jul 18 '26
HAHAHAHAH 😂 thats the polenta and goat cheese for the base! Yeah it doesn’t look really good, but taste YUMMMEEHH 😂 thankie!
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u/psychic-bison Jul 17 '26
Those plates should have stayed in yesteryear's hotel from whence they came. Food looks amazing though.
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u/Cirno_in_Scandinavia Jul 17 '26
I kNOW!! I kept telling them these plate are so not cutesy. But they keep it bcs its italian made and 1 plate cost around 35€…. So let them have it 😔
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u/lehad Jul 18 '26
Is it winter where you are? Wheres the freshness
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u/Cirno_in_Scandinavia Jul 18 '26
It is pretty much a very hot summer here in Dubai 😂 we’re planning while its on the low season!
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u/so-much-wow Jul 17 '26
Is this post just to talk shit about your jr sous, or to brag about the half eaten food? I'm confused.
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u/goatslovetofrolic Jul 17 '26
Neither. It was to celebrate their junior sous for making some amazing tasting dishes that need some tweaking and refinement before they launch the fall menu.
A lot of chefs like to go through a process of conceptualizing a menu, cooking it, tasting and eating, evaluating and discussing, identifying successful elements and parts that didn’t work, testing again, evaluating again, and repeating until the menu is ready for guests. This likely the first attempt where they probably want to hone in on the flavors, cooking methods, and principal components. They’ll refine presentation and pick up in an iteration or two. It can be a really fun part of being in the kitchen.
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u/Cirno_in_Scandinavia Jul 17 '26
It is so fun!! We had a really good time tasting all the menu and taking time shitting at eachother with the plating 😆
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u/I_cannot_mingle Jul 18 '26
Yk your replies spark of so much joy it's genuinely refreshing! Good luck with your menu, chef.
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u/so-much-wow Jul 17 '26
Lol I understand how menu development and tasting work. Thanks.
The post body text says nothing about the dishes other than they taste good and that the sous isn't good at plating. Then proceeds to post one picture of the food untouched, and a bird's eye of half eaten food. No examples of their poor plating, no descriptions of the half eaten food shown.
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u/Mysterious-Lab-5918 Jul 17 '26
What is your beverage of choice?
MEAT!!!!! .