Originally Posted by
bhrubin
We must agree to disagree. We've been twice to Le Benardin and had spectacular tasting menus on both occasions. We easily agree with the 3 stars they have.
We didn't deal with their horrible manager. We had a tremendous truffle tasting menu in Jan 2014, my first true truffle experience from start to finish. Tremendous food and service, amazing wine pairings, and just a very polished evening mixed with an ease of service due to our own penchant to enjoy that. We absolutely preferred 2 star Amber to 3 star Caprice.
Few corrections:
- Caprice is only a 2 michelin stars for few years and this is still overrated ( but the cheese is nice and the view as well)
- One of the two tasting menu at Bernardin is only the regular menu plus one dish (price is similar anyway) so it's just marketing ... . after a few times you know what you prefer and you can choose but a tasting menu is usually a good introduction to the chef leftover , sorry chef cuisine.
If you want to try seafood, La Palme d'or in Cannes is a different league (despite the chef has an "interesting" personnality)
- Amber : yes they're able to source some white truffles, can't remember if they're from alba or from other parts of Italy .
Make me think of "Les Tablettes" where the chef put truffle on numerous dishes to make it feel "luxury" but the taste is not there (not sure if he still do that)
- Yes Michelin guide does adapt to local markets,
---- otherwise NONE of the NY 3 stars restaurants will have 3 stars (maybe Brooklyn .. as I have not been there).
---- otherwise NONE of the Japan / NY / HK restaurants counter style restaurants will have 2 or 3 stars in France. The only exception in France is Robuchon because it's Mr Robuchon.
Yes it's great to exchange ideas and to disagree based on real experience in several countries .....