littleblue✨

Like an aging metal fan: the soul is dark and fed on snacks.

Sister community to /heyareyougonnaeatthat

What happened to your tortillas? 🥹

Garnishing with inedible items: amateur AF. 🤦🏽‍♂️

I’m not sure what your comment was trying to clarify, as it would be somewhat more forgivable if this dish were the product of an amateur trying new things, but it’s clearly at a restaurant and presumably OP paid for this entree. So, therefore, no one from menu creation to order execution had a sufficiently critical comment on this half-assed jumble of ideas crowding a seemingly well-crafted pair of fried fish portions.

To sum up: the fries should be arranged for height in the center of the plate, with the lemon wedges on the flat outer plane of it ~11 or 2 o’clock (the sauces taking the other position, regardless) and the slaw could be nestled between them and the bottom edge of the fries. This way, not only do the side (slaw), garnish (lemons), and sauces not crowd the plate or the guest’s access to the meal, but the fish can be proudly presented as the real gem of the dish.

NGL, that fish looks damn tasty, but the plating is crowded AF and undressed & uncut frisee isn’t slaw. Overall, it seems like someone who knows how to make some killer fried fish turned on a random cooking show once or twice for inspiration and figured that was enough of a glow-up. 😶

It’s likely both: battered first and then crumbed, to more resemble a fried chicken process.

Apples & oranges, to be fair. You can’t compare a cream process with a simple fat process, especially when the latter is a minimalist approach and the former is recognized almost solely by its presentation. All due respect, but the critique sounds more like a preference, underneath. I hope you try this recipe again and pull from the constructive advice elsewhere in this thread. Good luck! Have fun!

This, yep. 100%. 🤌🏼

Sandwich, per the canonical diagram.

How many are eating that? 😅 That’s an enormous portion of food.

edit: Americans downvoting? That tracks.

Happy li’l marjoram sprigs. 🥰

Seriously. Do some people not read how their adblockers work? 🥹

Same here, FWIW

May or may not be from the area (ahem), but I’ll say this: if you’re not getting it straight from the oven, then what’s the point? Delivered Chicago-style is only slightly more appetizing than delivered lasagna, NGL.

OP’s pie, however, looks damn tasty. The pepperoni on top are just as garnish anyhow. 🤗

That sort of lazy acceptance, no offense intended, is how we get “decimated” mistaken for “devastated”, and each have their own powerful, useful meanings. To whit, “consommé” comes from Latin consummare ‘make complete’ and is not as simple as merely consuming — as anyone who’s made it can tell you. 🤗

Actually? That’s incredibly helpful, informative, and ironically not combative. Fuckin’ A, this isn’t Reddit 2.0! Genuinely, well done and thank you. 🥰

Consomme* 🤙🏼

Oh my. 😱🫠

Stop. I can only get so aroused. 😭