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🤮 1/5 - Wildly overpriced and pretentious
By 👻 @Pat McKenzie, 03/25/2022 3:00 am
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It is an amazement to me that this restaurant has two Michelin stars. That truly makes me question the validity of the star system.
What this restaurant is, is a prix fixe menu., with 16 "courses." The "meal" is not so much of a meal as it is a floorshow. It's a theatrical experience and the dishes are merely props. If you have no palate and you are easily dazzled by unique appearing foodstuffs, this may be the place you are looking for.
For me, it was a disaster. I have never had a bad meal in a high end restaurant in San Francisco in my life -- and I'm 70 on my next birthday and have eaten in high end restaurants in Paris, New York ,Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. This meal at Benu was a joke.
There was some kind of a "lobster soup" which was served lukewarm in a jewelry box, to give you an idea of what this experience was like. Then there was one whole wheat roll, which we were assured was quite amazing and so was the drizzle of honey that went on it. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. If I saw this in a movie I would have been howling, but there I was in real life, and my date for the evening laid out $600 per head. (We drank a lot of good wine, which is the only saving grace this place has, is a decent wine cellar.)
The meal started out with the 1,000 year old quail egg, which was a flavorless morsel of slime. The rest of the meal did not go too far up hill from there. The only dishes with any taste were a few spareribs and a piece of quail.
The quail was brought out with vast fanfare and flourish. It reminded me in the scene in Restaurant At the End Of The Universe where the cow comes to the table and says hello before they shoot it. Total theatrics. Maybe I didn't have enough to drink.
Dessert was unspeakable.
It goes without saying that I will not be returning to Benu my next time in San Francisco.
A word to the wise: Don't take anybody here if it's a special occasion. I went here on a first date with a guy and we finally stopped speaking to one another after yet another fight about this horrible restaurant. Do yourself a favor, go someplace normal if it's a special occasion. Stay clear of Benu.
The words "caveat emptor" should appear in every ad for this place.
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