This article is pretty clearly for people who go out of their way to make other people’s lives a tiny bit easier.

If everything in this article is separated by the word “and”, you’re basically doing a portion of the laundry, part of the bathroom clean-up, and the bulk of the room re-arrangement “and” paying the person $10 for the pain of an already-mostly-clean room to finish cleaning up. I am nice to servers in restaurants and…

The reason is so my son can meet his grandparents. It’s June, not December. I am not going on “holiday”, I am going on vacation, you fucking wanker. I am not sure where your parents went wrong, but taking you on an airplane wasn’t it. Connard.

Am I the only one who doesn’t see the need for car seats on a plane? Granted I am not a parent so maybe I’ll change my opinion on this in the future. But unlike driving (which is legitimately a pretty risky activity, and where a car seat substantially reduces risk), the chance of injury on a plane is just so so much…

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Pretentious diner and pretentious owner. All of the one’s skill put forward and all of the other’s money spent will be turned into feces before the night is out. Food is just poop-to-be, no need to take pictures of it or spend that much on it. You’d think assholes would be familiar with that concept.

If I had to take a guess as to the camera ban, it would be related to timing. At a lot of these very expensive omakase type restaurants, timing is everything. While you’re sitting there fumbling with your phone, you could be screwing up the chef’s timing, throwing off how and when they serve dishes to everyone,…

It’s amazing how humorless people get so bent out of shape about the very principle of some other diner taking pictures of their food. And by “people”, I mean the chef at the restaurant in question and several members of the Super Serious Snarky Commentariat at The Takeout.

Years ago I was at a somewhat famous touristy restaurant called “<firstname> Pancakes”. I was sitting on the patio and started to photograph the menu to send to a friend, also named “<firstname>“. The waitress came outside and told me they didn’t allow anyone to photograph their menu. I was pissed off and asked to…

Yes, I sometimes take pictures of my food and post them on instagram. If something is particularly pretty/beautiful as sometimes food is. As food becomes more aesthetic sometimes I want to take a picture if it, it’s basically like a work of art that I’m going to eat. Or my most recent example, having Korean BBQ for…

You won’t want to remember them, just the food.

I don’t see what the problem is. Just take a picture of your poop later.

A friend of mine invited me to his restaurant for an omakase a couple of months ago. While there, after settling in, etc, the sushi chef told us that we need to eat the fish when it is placed in front of us, don’t wait for everyone to get their dish, just eat it. Apparently the combination of the fish oil, and any…

In general, I find people who have strong opinions about ultimately harmless activities, like taking pictures of food, to be far more annoying than the people who indulge in said harmless activities. All the try-hards in this thread harping on about something so meaningless and mundane are bizarre to me. Like, does it…

Chef won’t let you take your phone out?

I think we already had a solution for this:

Jesus Christ, is this comments section always this stuck-up and superior or has this topic hit a particular nerve? I like taking pictures of beautiful food I eat and sharing them on Instagram. I like looking at my friends’ pictures of beautiful food they eat that they post on Instagram. It leads to interesting and…

Same reason ANY artist says “No photos:” they do not want someone else ripping off their art. And it happens all of the time...

It may be that the chef has seen photos of his food used to promote other businesses, online or other restaurants, even takeout, and so no photos.

Omakase, is a way for a chef to touch the customer. They don’t just craft food, they watch you eat and how you eat and create accordingly. You eat sushi with your hands, but intsead of savoring that experience you are trying not to get you hands too dirty so it dosent get the phone dirty. The whole experience is…