At Quince, San Francisco's highly regarded and Michelin triple-starred restaurant, $220 buys you a stunning fixed-price supper including caviar, cold-water lobster, venison and "A Dog in Search of Gold."
The latter dish, crispy white truffle croquettes, is served atop an iPad. The screen runs video of a dog hunting for truffles in a forest.
"Living in San Francisco for over 20 years, I have witnessed the tech boom and I wanted to combine a little bit of gastronomy with technology and a little bit of education," said Quince chef Michael Tusk. "The idea was simply about taking the guest on a voyage to being out truffle hunting and then having a moment when the truffle is dug from the ground."
[...] The food sits on a screen atop the iPad, and the screen is sterilized after every use, he said. "The food does not directly sit on top of the iPad," he said.
The protective screen allows them to hand out silverware instead of plastic forks.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday January 02 2017, @05:23AM
Imagine that: serving a seafood dish on a plate running a closeup video of... well, you know. It'd give the term "dining at the Y" a whole new meaning.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @05:40AM
I'll order the fried calamari and goatse platter for $69.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 02 2017, @06:28AM
If it smells like fish down there something is wrong with a woman's body chemistry, up to and including an infection. That is not normal.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @06:36AM
Nyotaimori, Hazuki-chan.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 02 2017, @10:44PM
Is that even a thing? I've heard of it but it sounds very unsanitary. And objectifying. Also who are you?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jcross on Monday January 02 2017, @06:28PM
I guess it all depends on what kind of fish we're talking about. If it's mackerel or rotten fish, you're right, but an odor reminiscent of fresh sushi-grade tuna likely wouldn't indicate anything wrong.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 02 2017, @10:43PM
Yeah, it does: you're dating a mermaid :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jcross on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:50PM
Mmmm, ningyozushi...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday January 02 2017, @02:00PM
Aside from the "well, you know" aspect the SECOND thing I thought of is living 1000+ miles from a coast, seafood can get a bit expensive and we're gonna get large ipads with "red lobster tv commercial" style pictures of ten servings of shrimp and a pint of cocktail sauce but on top of the ipad there's only gonna be like five fried shrimps and a teaspoon of sauce, but that pix of enough food to feed a small village will look very filling.
Likewise you thinking you get a giant sized steak dinner but the garlic bread is just a pix of a garlic bread and the salad is half digital as is the steak itself. Also the salad dressing puddle the limp iceberg lettuce is sitting in is completely digital.
Imagine the $20 bucket of popcorn at the movie theatre where the bucket is 90% digital download displayed on the screen.
On a semi-serious aspect a glass with a variety of full spectrum LEDs might be able to serve pure corn syrup water and convince people that shining and orange light thru it means OJ or shining a brown light means coke/pepsi or shining a yellow LED means lemonade, all without changing anything but some source code.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Monday January 02 2017, @06:33PM
Your potential for creative forms of evil never ceases to amaze me.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Monday January 02 2017, @06:31PM
Prawn on pr0n?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday January 02 2017, @08:50PM
Looks like I got the term "Food Porn" [wikipedia.org] all wrong :-)
Shouldn't the smell of a woman partially reflect what she is eating (similar to the smell of the male privates)? At least some foods leave a distinct non-fish aroma... (asparagus for example, garlic, but allegedly also some exotic fruits)
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