Restaurants Over-Seasoning Food

[rainroosty]

A big, emphatic yes..."spicy" is trendy, along with things like chipotle and lots of other trendy things that in recent years became seemingly mandatory on menus everywhere...especially fast food menus. All of it undesirable...all of it pretty lame.
"Wings of Fire"...my lord.

[vmaxnc]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

I have noticed that in many restaurants with younger, trendier chefs the problem isn't over-salting, but with trying to be over-creative. It's all sriracha this and aioli that. I'm all for interesting enhancements, but sometimes you've just got to let the food be.

I posted elsewhere about a $20 cheeseburger that had several types of reductions, aiolis, infusions, and at least two dozen ingredients. That's an extreme but it's a good example of over complicating food.

I just had cole slaw with fish and chips at a decent restaurant. I tried to like it, but it had two kinds of peppers in it, along with 2 kinds of vinegar and some spice I never identified, and I just couldn't get past all of that.

Originally Posted by rainroosty

A big, emphatic yes..."spicy" is trendy, along with things like chipotle and lots of other trendy things that in recent years became seemingly mandatory on menus everywhere...especially fast food menus. All of it undesirable...all of it pretty lame.
"Wings of Fire"...my lord.

Meh. I can remember back in the 80's when I first started to recognize "spicy". Even the restaurant Chipotle has been around 20+ years.

Maybe you're just not old enough to have much history with restaurants.

[Dirt Grinder]

I'm glad the "blackened" craze is mostly over - talk about a way to ruin the taste of good food. The only thing I believe is improved by having it "blackened" is tilapia - that abomination has no intrinsic flavor anyway.

Now, if we could only get over using the word aioli for everything that is basically flavored mayo.

[strawberrykiki]

I agree. I've gotten to where I only eat out at local places where I know the food is going to be made fresh and I prefer 95% of the time to make it myself at home. I went to Outback and had a steak and it was barely edible.

[rainroosty]

Meh. I can remember back in the 80's when I first started to recognize "spicy". Even the restaurant Chipotle has been around 20+ years.

Maybe you're just not old enough to have much history with restaurants.

Well, I don't know. I'm going on 60...you be the judge.