If restaurant publicists and chefs are to be believed there are an awful lot of artists out there baking bread, rolling pasta, making sauces and tossing salads ! The argument over whether or not food and cooking is art has been waged for many years now by people who have nothing better to do. Is a chef an artist or craftsman ? Strangely enough such an seemingly irrelevant question will often engender the hottest debate amongst a group of food professionals. It would seem to m

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Every few years some publication or other sounds the death knell of haute cuisine and fine dining detailing how the decline in both the desire for and standards of Michelin style fine dining and French cuisine in particular are dwindling by the passing minute. True that there are less people that seem to have the time or desire to sit in stuffy ultra expensive dining rooms and be fawned over by pompous waiters serving overly rich food at stratospheric prices. However this was

Who makes the best waiters ?........answer, waiters ! Simple enough one would think but unfortunately they are few and far between. Actors between jobs may act at being waiters, students play at being waiters and sometimes they are very good at it but in the end there is no substitute for a real professional waiter, the type that makes their life’s purpose the care and service of their guests. A ‘real waiter’ never walks to the kitchen empty handed or past his tables without

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