Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxury Travel Blog and has worked in the travel industry for more than 30 years. He is Winner of the Innovations in Travel ‘Best Travel Influencer’ Award from WIRED magazine. In addition to other awards, the blog has also been voted “one of the world’s best travel blogs” and “best for luxury” by The Daily Telegraph.
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I love this and hope all of it is true.
Just goes to show that taste, experience, and value are all relative. These critics should be woken up by the fact that they got tricked by the experience and that maybe their palets aren’t as developed as they thought.
I’ve visited the ‘dark restaurant’ in Barcelona once, it was a great experience and the food was amazing! Now I wonder what did they actually serve there? Maybe it was something very simple as well:))
That’s why its dark! What do you think they will serve you? First class? Duh! You can’t even see it! That’s the purpose.It’s your senses that fools you!
Why the outrage? If they liked it, they liked it — no need to recoil from that initial assessment ’cause they find out it was squeezy-cheez they were eating, ha! Unless, of course, they’re just flat-out snobs, hehe …
Great April Fool’s joke!
It’s all in one’s perception. It shows that sometimes food critics are really proud of themselves to be somebody that really know about food quality etc.but in fact, it’s a mind game :)
Just proves what I’ve always suspected. The vast majority of so-called experts have no taste at all they just look at the presentation.
Pity I didn’t look at the original date on this instead of thinking April Fools day was long gone but I stand by my opinion of food critics.
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I love this and hope all of it is true.
Just goes to show that taste, experience, and value are all relative. These critics should be woken up by the fact that they got tricked by the experience and that maybe their palets aren’t as developed as they thought.
I’ve visited the ‘dark restaurant’ in Barcelona once, it was a great experience and the food was amazing! Now I wonder what did they actually serve there? Maybe it was something very simple as well:))
That’s why its dark! What do you think they will serve you? First class? Duh! You can’t even see it! That’s the purpose.It’s your senses that fools you!
Why the outrage? If they liked it, they liked it — no need to recoil from that initial assessment ’cause they find out it was squeezy-cheez they were eating, ha! Unless, of course, they’re just flat-out snobs, hehe …
Great April Fool’s joke!
It’s all in one’s perception. It shows that sometimes food critics are really proud of themselves to be somebody that really know about food quality etc.but in fact, it’s a mind game :)
Just proves what I’ve always suspected. The vast majority of so-called experts have no taste at all they just look at the presentation.
Pity I didn’t look at the original date on this instead of thinking April Fools day was long gone but I stand by my opinion of food critics.