...some of the best food comes from those cheap little places that cost you 5-6 bucks for a meal that 2 people could share?
And then you go to some gourmet restaurant and they have tiny portions of weird food that's not even that great for like 30 bucks... what's up with that?
2007-05-22 08:46:15 · 7 answers · asked by Stacy Lehua 2 in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
i've experienced that as well. small places often have cooks that know how to make the good old home made stuff. Common things that we all love to eat that taste as if your mom made it.
the gourmet places have fancy chefs that spent a lot of money going to culinary school and pride themselves on inventing interesting new dishes. sometimes they are yummy (pulled-pork stuffed squash blossoms from bobby flay's place in NYC) other times they are too fancy for my liking.
sometimes i just want a great burrito or sandwich, nothing fancy
2007-05-22 08:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Grasshopper there are many mysteries out there, but I firmly believe that one: not all gourmet food places are so 'cheap' in their offering. Just expensive. There are very good and tasty places serving gourmet meals in the Los Angeles area as well as San Francisco. One is Gorikee in Woodland Hills, L.A. Big portions with a touch of Corde De
Blieu cooking and a tinge of garlic. Second; not all cheap food places taste good.
Sparatwo.
2007-05-22 09:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by spartaworld.combat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about money. They want to charge more and they tend to attract the "with-it" crowd. Thrifty people who do not care to be "with it" and care for great food and enjoy food would go to the cheaper places you mentioned. Also the gourmet restaurants are riding on their own famous names, I think. That's my opinion.
You pay for a well- known place.
2007-05-22 09:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by Globetrotter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just the way it is . . . so support the little mom and pop places and don't go to the fancy "gourmet" restaurants!
2007-05-22 15:23:07 · answer #4 · answered by worldinspector 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gourmet restraunts think b/c it is 'fancy' they have the right to charge 'more for less' they have competition w/ the cheap places b/c the cheaper it is the more people eat there.
2007-05-23 06:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by spoilt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the time these weird types of food come from some ancient old religion or type of living. stick with the cheap stuff i know, it tastes a lot better
2007-05-22 10:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by Bekah D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That the real world !!!
Expensive doesn't always mean better.
2007-05-22 08:53:36 · answer #7 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋