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^ Really good point … Starbucks (in Oz at least) tried to encourage a “come and have an informal meeting or even do some remote work here” as opposed to Maccas preferring you consume your high-volume sausage-factory flavourless gloop & FO so the next gloop-consumer can use your seat.

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Yeah I think on one hand there's the issue of "motivation", and on the other there's the issue of "happy side effect". The discomfort is primarily due to the lack of space, which is due to wedging so many people in. I don't know what modern aircraft seats weigh (I'll bet it's Not Much) but...

Yeah I’d fail that too. My wife ordered the non-alcoholic drinks-pairing when we were there ... somewhere between 3 & 4 years ago. They had a few interesting in-house made things included, like home-made lemonade that was more “citrus” than “sweet” & a kombucha they made themselves with a...

Probably some agreement/licensing thing to do with naming/branding as well, I checked their website and the site & the venue/signage & the menus etc have got James Squire branding & logos all over the joint!

We went about ... I'm saying about 3 years ago, could be a bit longer. Was a while after things started getting back to as normal-ish as they ever have post-COVID. Was great, we definitely got our money's worth, we very much enjoyed it! But ... there's definitely a been-there-done-that with...

I find 7+ course degustations sneak up on me ... each thing arrives, it looks like a tiny morsel & so so small ... .... but then by the time that last tiny morsel arrives, and they're feeding me the "waffer-thin mint" ... /MrCreosote

Hang on, I probably misread this ... I thought you meant it was so expensive that you got pizza instead of going to Tetsuya for future meals! But now I'm thinking you mean that you didn't roll out of there needing to unbuckle your belt & with your gut nearly exploding? How did you even achieve...

We shall have to agree to disagree; food is one of my loves in life and getting a really good experience eating out one of the most fun things I can do. I sometimes need to work hard at justification. One example ... there's not much more in F over J than the food & drink, and the very worst...

One person's definition of "over" is different to another's. If you want that level of food & service, it costs that much to bring it to you. I don't think it's "over" priced if what they are doing is that good. Mind you I'll temper the above by saying that Testsuya peaked 15-ish years ago...

I think I've heard of some of those, but haven't been ... could be because I mostly get my recommendations from friends who have great judgement & go out a lot more frequently than we do! So if they're not that great, they won't be recommended to me, and I'm not taking a gamble (on the rare...

Oh yeah! We were there on a weekday of the first week (we jumped on the opportunity because we’d enjoyed ourselves the last time they did the same - 2 years ago I think?). Was brilliant, so much variety & playing so well with different flavours/ingredients. There was even a juvenile whale...

Quite possible! A lot of the scam industry is based in places with a European colonial past, so while the local religion might not warrant a Christmas break the culture does ... having said that, I've spoken to a few scammers with very obvious Filipino accents & Manila is very Catholic.

Did you pay it? It’s been a year or so since, due to life, I had to answer calls from unknown numbers. A year-ish of not answering unknown numbers seems to have finally taken effect, I had a call (I didn’t answer) from an unknown number yesterday but the scam calls are back down to only 1-2...

Given that you’re a coffee, I’d have thought they’d need no reminder that they’d be a blubbering heap on the ground without you?!

Expensive, or overpriced? When it was open we paid something like $400/ea for Tetsuya’s, but it was WAY better value than ~$150/ea at Rockstool Bar & Grille. You can spend ~$800 apiece at Quay if you get the fancy wine pairing. I dunno, it’s hard to put a value on the very top end of town...

My comment here is intended as a potential part-explanation rather than an excuse … but people being paid minimally to do unpleasant jobs are surely even more likely to be “grumpy” when their entire unpleasant job is being exposed to mostly people doing something that their position probably...

For the few I know IRL who go out of their way to do status-runs, it’s mostly a hobby. Switching it over from being fun, to there being an actual need that has some importance, would surely take all the fun out of it & make it too much like “work”? If it becomes "work" there's a LOT of time...

At least the regime in the US is actively fixing all the problems at their airports ... by installing pull-up bars.

They pay a lot more than train fare to travel to 1980’s Kings Cross …