opinionated alchemist

I found this great interview on nightclub.com - in which Jon Taffer is interviewed. He is the host and expert of Bar Rescue [if you are one bar industry professional who didn't watched few episodes - shame on you] . Jon Taffer could be called also "very opinionated" - right on my alley...  however due to his brand involvement and definitely also his age, I do have often the feeling, that he is all the time a couple of steps behind real cutting edge trends and ideas. Anyway - a lot of wisdom isn't "aging" at all, and I definitely don't want to take any credit, which Taffer deserves.... Lighting innovations and LED technology... Yes - Taffer is definitely right, that this changed a lot.  Is it a cutting edge trend though? Nope - we do have LED's already quite long, and there is not much more, which really caught mainstream, which is very innovative. Maybe the problem of this is: the price! B2B companies, which offering (sometime questio...

I have heard it not the first time - fine dining is dead. Well - Ferran Adrià closed El Bulli some time ago - not because it was not successful [we might consider, that El Bulli was the most successful fine dining restaurant, which was not in a metropolitan area]. I guess Ferran had still 20 to 50 people on the waiting list, for any diner he was accommodating. But he is also a person, who is strangely connected to trends [yes he is also a culinary trend setter, but to be a trend setter, you have to have a feeling for the overall crowd psychology]. In the current economical climate a fine dining establishment has a hard time: the US is not completely out of the crisis - still struggling - but Europe is even worse, with their Euro crisis - and Asia doesn't see the growth rate as previous years. A lot of people just don't want to expend that much for a single dining experience, when the times are unsafe - others don't want to show off, that they still have it and "are...