Originally Posted by
estnet
Not everyone takes pics for blogs - I do it for my own memory (but without flash and quite unobtrusively)

Same here. I use a camera with good high-ISO performance so that there's no flash required, and take shots as unobtrusively as possible. Have done so at pretty much every Michelin-starred place I've been, including all the 3* places (I asked if it was OK at a couple of very-formal locations, including one in Kyoto; it's never been an issue).