$550 for that with wine pairing seems very reasonable. Say what you want about Redzepi, but the man is not gouging his customers.

seriously, cepes are amazing. I never would have thought to coat them in chocolate, but it totally makes sense.

some of it is for bragging rights on the part of the diner, you know, "I ate at Noma." Incidentally, I was in Copenhagen two years ago and couldn't get a table. Some of it is people who follow chefs in a cult-like way, which is weird. But some of it is people who have been a lot of places and tried a lot of foods,…

Well said, and as a bloke I can say I have visited strip clubs a few times and while I think overall it's a weird experience, the part of me that does enjoy to look at women's bodies has enjoyed it. Is it possible to square my desire to see us live in a world where women are treated equally to men and yet to support…

somehow I end up in line behind these people nearly every time I'm at Chipotle. Ordering things not on the menu and then being pouty about it. I want to hold my wallet up and say to to the person behind the counter "I will seriously pay double for my burrito if you get this person out of my way and just let me have a…

see Lock Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The Samoan pub scene.

I loved the ending though, she throws down her credit card and tips 25%. Take that, libertarian!

I'm convinced that most so-called libertarians are just people who need an excuse to be rude.

do you think she knew that, though? Seriously? I'm not sure how she escaped from the mental hospital on that particular day, but I can almost say with certainty she did not know that cafe means coffee en francais.

here's the extent of notes I've ever left with a restaurant bill: excellent meal, thank you! That's it, end of story. Life advice? Yeah, no.

seriously, I have to have this omelette now. Maybe tomorrow morning when we're buried under 100 feet or so of snow, I will make one!

I have two cards in my Passbook for Apple Pay, and I believe when I entered both I had to authenticate via a text from the issuing banks. Seems like it would solve the second problem? If so, is this just bank specific?

I think your criteria for people in poverty you will feel sympathy for is far too narrow. There are plenty of circumstances under which people older than their 20's can end up in poverty through no fault of their own. My brother, for example, is in his late thirties and was doing fine until he went through a terrible…

I don't know, that sounds like saying you're just not willing to be sympathetic to poor people. Sure, poor people in the US may be better off than poor people in China, but what comfort does that offer them? Fox News did this ridiculous segment on how the poor in America are really just a bunch of crybabies. They…

because everything you've posted with regards to your beliefs on the minimum wage have been words directy from the page of Ayn Rand novels. But interesting that you brought up anarchism, as if it's this perfect system that would just fix everything. You do realize we have a lot of crazy people with a lot of guns in…

what does any of that have to do with people who deserve to be paid more than $9 an hour for making burgers?

You're a liar. Nearly everything you've posted has been directly lifted from Ayn Rand.

you talk like someone who has never fallen on hard times. Just like Fox News cooking up an outrage story on how these poor people aren't really that poor because they have refrigerators. How much unused stuff a person has is totally irrelevant to the fact that if they're working, they deserve at least a basic standard…

I'm torn on this. In an ideal world, I think it's fair that the CEO should make more than the janitor, but 300 times more? But I'd like it if we could get there organically, rather than through legislation. The other problem with trying achieve that kind of parity through legislation is that many of those in the C…

the ethical argument you've made should be enough, but even if people don't understand this they should understand that it's just not good economics to have a system where you have an entire class of people that can't even afford to feed themselves, but are somehow still expected to be the consumers that keep the…