Restaurant reviewer talks of his experience at possibly the worst Michelin-starred restaurant in the world
The travel writer and her friends recently spent a memorable evening at Bros', a posh Italian restaurant, where they were served a 27-course meal that included rancid cheese, shot glasses of vinegar, droplets infused with meat molecules, and a plaster cast of the chef's mouth dribbling orange foam.
"Reconstituted orange slices" were served on a plate with an actual orange, which they were told was only for decoration.
One of the tastier courses consisted of tiny fried cheese balls, which the servers insisted were made from "rancid" ricotta. When DeRuiter suggested that perhaps they meant "aged" or "fermented," she was told: "No. Rancid."
Nothing could be remotely described as a main dish, DeRuiter said. At one point, a server swirled several rich sauces onto their plates, and she thought for sure they would heap something substantial atop it.
"And someone came by with an eye dropper, and they proceeded to squirt a sort of gelée onto the sauces, and they said, 'This has been infused with meat molecules.' And then they walked away," she said.
"A friend of mine at the table said, 'Those are two words you never want to hear together — meat and molecules.'"
They waited for spoons, and were horrified to learn none would be coming.
"You had to slurp it out," DeRuiter said. "And at some point I think I accidentally made eye contact with a friend of mine across the table while I was doing that. That brought our friendship to a new level that I wish we had not reached."
Asked for comment, Bros’ restaurant sent a 3-page PDF about the meaning of art, complete with horse drawings
The linked article contains pictures of some of the food. Not to be missed, if you have a taste for the bizarre.