From restaurant to restaurant across Europe

[limey]

Last night's dinner-

Main course - Picture if you will, two triangular wedges of pan fried fillet of lamb, cooked to perfect pink, standing proud in the centre of the plate. Nearby a slab of polenta has a cylindrical hole through it filled with finely sliced fried mushrooms, the cylindrical plug sitting nonchalantly atop the slab. To the side, daintily thin slices of steamed baby aubergine and courgette alternate fanned into a roundel. With a carefree drizzle of jus all around.
Sorry, I forgot to photograph it!
Pictured is the starter.

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[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by limey

Nearby a slab of polenta has a cylindrical hole through it filled with finely sliced fried mushrooms, the cylindrical plug sitting nonchalantly atop the slab.

This kind of thing irritates me. Intellectually, I get that presentation is important, at least to people who aren't me. But they basically cut a bite out of the middle of your food and threw it away, so they could artistically fill the cylinder instead if just putting the mushrooms on top of the whole polenta piece. Was the idea of a haphazard pile really so offensively bourgeois that they had to bin some of the very food that you're supposed to be enjoying?

Unless the little cut-out circle of polenta was somewhere else on the plate, in which case I'll shut up now.

[BigV]

Noted so you'll feel better, NOT so you'll "shut up now".

Originally Posted by limey

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the cylindrical plug sitting nonchalantly atop the slab.
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

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Unless the little cut-out circle of polenta was somewhere else on the plate, in which case I'll shut up now.