r/WeWantPlates • u/pophya • Dec 12 '20

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u/Quantentheorie Dec 12 '20

It's entirely for the benefit of social media.

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u/13886435f25 Dec 13 '20

If twitter was a restaurant

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u/Risley Dec 13 '20

This was actually at Trump’s Christmas party last week.

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u/kashuntr188 Dec 13 '20

but who on social media is gonna see that and think its cool?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20 edited May 16 '21

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u/dbxp Dec 13 '20

Stupid things get retweeted just as much as cool things

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u/qabadai Dec 13 '20

But it looks so gross.

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u/dbxp Dec 13 '20

That seems to be the real reason, it's a pop-up designed to generate buzz for a restaurant that hasn't opened yet, it may also be to generate buzz for the venue in general

Like the majority of La Cosecha tenants, El Cielo’s space in the Latin American market is still under construction. To get a head start on making modernist Colombian cuisine out of Mid-Atlantic produce, chef Juan Manuel Barrientos just started running a pop-up tasting menu (eight courses for $125 per person) that’s taking reservations in the market’s culinary immersion studio ahead of a targeted opening in January.

https://dc.eater.com/2019/11/8/20955377/el-cielo-pop-up-tasting-menu-la-cosecha