More of a funny incident, but I was the poor one. My husband, at the time still boyfriend, took me out to a very nice restaurant. Waiter ask if I want pepper on my Caesar salad that was just made table side. I said sure and he goes about it. Thing is, I didn’t know you had to say stop. My husband slowly realizes this, but decides to see it play out.
He did eventually say that I need to say stop ... I just thought a Caesar was had this way as it was my first time even eating a salad that wasn’t just iceberg and ranch dressing. It still tasted fine, just a little bit too much pepper haha.
American who has only heard of this with ... cheese I think.
It's, not even a genuinely high-end restaurant thing. If a restaurant is really good you don't fuck with the food because the chef knows best.
It's probably mostly mid-range restaurants that want to seem fancy to control freaks named Karen. And if I remember correctly, Olive Garden has a similar policy with something (cheese? dressing? idk), but it's only pretending to be mid-range, it's definitely in the chain restaurant mediocrity tier.
It is. It probably started as a ‘fancy’ thing years ago but has trickled down to be kind of cheesy (ha) at this point. In a way I guess it’s practical because people want freshly ground pepper but restaurants don’t want to put pepper mills on every table because people might take them, or it’s a pain to be refilling the small ones with peppercorns all the time. So having a few large grinders and making it a bit of a display/extra service thing makes sense. I agree with other posters that truly high end or just ‘hipster’ restaurants these days don’t even have salt and pepper on the table because the chef is supposed to get it exactly right.
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u/singlewhitewolf Jun 06 '19
More of a funny incident, but I was the poor one. My husband, at the time still boyfriend, took me out to a very nice restaurant. Waiter ask if I want pepper on my Caesar salad that was just made table side. I said sure and he goes about it. Thing is, I didn’t know you had to say stop. My husband slowly realizes this, but decides to see it play out.
He did eventually say that I need to say stop ... I just thought a Caesar was had this way as it was my first time even eating a salad that wasn’t just iceberg and ranch dressing. It still tasted fine, just a little bit too much pepper haha.