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Paula's avatar

I'm excited to watch The Menu for it's over the top ridiculousness. Approx a million years ago I had an internship in the pastry kitchen at Rouge Tomate (I'm a dietitian and they had a kind of weird fine dining combined with health food thing going on with dietitians on staff) and just that 6 weeks with all the classic angry yelling chefs screaming at everyone made me hate fine dining forever. I was mostly tasked with weighing perfect 30g balls of cookie dough and cutting fennel bulbs into perfectly even centimeter cubes so that two of them could be placed on a dessert plate(the scraps were composted).

Anyway, sorry for this essay, but I am excited to watch any kind of take down of fine dining.

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Jack Whalen's avatar

Perfect timing - we watched The Menu last (Sunday) night, having read no reviews or talked with anyone who saw it but thought, based on the few sentences from HBO, ‘this could be Interesting...

And it was! Just as you say, rip-roaringly funny with some great performances (all of them, really, but the Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult ‘couple’ were perfect, and Hong Chau’s icy cold unflappability had us in tears).

Now we simply have to see the others you list lol

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