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ORIGINAL: WineGuyDelMar My wife's family took us to a couple of pricey, French restaurants in Chicago and I always left hungry. That's really interesting.. what are other people's experience? For me, I've never left a Michelin star restaurant's tasting menu meal feeling hungry.. in fact i'd say 40% of the time, i'm full and comfortable... 60% of the time i'm so full by dessert i cannot finish the food. I basically eat very little bread now, even tho some bread service can be AMAZING.. AGREE I have been to some very swank places and mostly find they stuff you to the gills --- it's bad, actually. The tasting menu scene in NYC is not well done at all. At all the top restaurants, I've found the tasting portions to be too large by about one bite, and all that adds up to make you feel like a house by the time dessert rolls out. THEN they try and offer you complimentary biscuits or home-made candies and I start to regret the whole evening. They should work on that. +1 I've done several fine dining tasting menu's and have never left hungry. Yes, but - I remember a time when that wasn't the case. There was a fancy French restaurant in Princeton which was a town near where I grew up and there were not 'lots' of courses but instead appetizer and entree and entree was like an entree in Europe where it was really not meant to be a main and so one could easily leave hungry. In fact, the joke was you needed a burger on the way home. It's possible ppl who got that memo took it a bit too far. In NYC with a lot of these good places I leave having consumed the only meal I really need for the day (or three). But different style.
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