Hello Here,
One luxury I know that gets too much Credit is Fancy Restaurants, those kinds where you book a Table in Avance for, and then you dress up big like you have a very important place to be at, you then have to wait like it's a big deal then when the food finally comes, it looks like a modern art on a plate.
The way people talk about fine dinning like it's some kind of an achievement, like if you have not sat in a restaurant where the waitress has to ask you for your order and then the bill comes in a leather book before then your life isn't complete, or that you have not really experienced life, my thoughts on this and about food is that, we know that FOOD is meant or supposed to taste good, and the next thing is it is supposed to fill you, that is just the basic thing that food is supposed to do.
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When I finish eating, I want to really feel that I ate something good and filling, not to go to a restaurant and spend money and then stop at a road side to buy akara and bread or soya else to eat, when that money could actually sort out more than two to three problems in my life, because this is what happens when people do fine dinning, it's feels weird to me.
The atmosphere they sell in that kind of environment, is something that I don't buy into, the place is very beautiful and the aesthetic and all, you can have a genuinely amazing meal in a very simple place, the kind of place with plastic chairs, and a woman who has been cooking the same recipe for twenty years and has perfected it completely, know that food will do more for your soul than a tiny portion of something you cannot even pronounce well, that is presented on a slate board with a leaf on top of it.
Alot of people go to these places just to take good pictures and some to feel among , not to feel left out, it's not bad, everyone has a reason that they do something and it is not only about food.
I'm not saying to treat yourself badly, yes enjoy your life enjoy good food, enjoy good things, live nice, spend on experience that matters to you, But the idea that a very expensive, very small, very serious meal is the peak of living well, I don't think that holds up when you really think about it.
Just gimme a place with real food, generous portion, and good company, true flavour, that I will enjoy that meal far more than me spending a good fraction of money on where I won't eat to my fill.
Because spending wisely to me is the real luxury, eating well without the performance.
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