Five Reasons Tasting Menus Are a Dining Scourge  Categories:
Five Great...  Flickr user dalbera Not a restaurant (though
there's a good one inside). 3. They're full of chef worshippers,
who may be the most annoying restaurant-goers on Earth.  The
fancier the restaurant, the more likely it is that they'll be
full of people who are determined to have a really intense
experience from their favorite chef. Once relegated to the table
in the kitchen, these folks have now spread like mint throughout
the restaurant. In the fanciest places, it can be hushed, like a
museum (or its -eum cousin, a mausoleum). God forbid you should
interrupt their experience with anything like normal human
conversation or laughter; they'll turn amusing shades of red and
splutter about the death of decorum on websites like Yelp and
Chowhound.  4. They're contributing to the demise of the three-
course dinner.  The three-course dinner has a long precedent in
our culinary history; like it or lump it, much of the fine
dining we do is modeled o