No, I've never gone (haven't been in LA in 20 years). This was my reaction as I was reading the article
It really made me grateful for the craftsmanship and relative relaxedness I experienced at Bite Club and Um Segredo.
Did you go?
(it seems more LA than NBC)
ETA: not a snark - if you went, post about it. Would love to read the write-up.

The Way We Eat Now
#16
Posted 01 December 2012 - 07:46 PM
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --John Steinbeck
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."--Arsenic and Old Lace
#18
Posted 11 February 2013 - 07:36 PM
A well wisher on Twitter tweeted this, with the suggestion I share it here:
#19
Posted 09 October 2013 - 04:50 PM
Brooklyn restaurant Eat insists on silence throughout the tasting menu.
#20
Posted 02 October 2015 - 11:23 AM
#21
Posted 02 October 2015 - 06:17 PM
#22
Posted 09 December 2015 - 01:11 PM
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#23
Posted 09 December 2015 - 06:35 PM
A well wisher on Twitter tweeted this, with the suggestion I share it here:
I do business with those people
#24
Posted 04 January 2016 - 07:36 PM
Restaurant I went to last night boasted it's own special quirk. Dishes would come out in the correct order, but strictly one by one. This meant you either shared, or the two of you took turns eating. Hopeless if one diner wants to order something the other diner doesn't like. And I guess parties of six get a mouthful per course.
#25
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:36 PM
Restaurant I went to last night boasted it's own special quirk. Dishes would come out in the correct order, but strictly one by one. This meant you either shared, or the two of you took turns eating. Hopeless if one diner wants to order something the other diner doesn't like. And I guess parties of six get a mouthful per course.
Easy way to kill this one: take six people with you, then take turns eating a five course meal.
-Chomskybot
#26
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:40 PM
It's as if new restaurants desperately seek yet another alternative to just bringing out the food in a normal way.
#27
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:41 PM
The problem is that, in their heart of hearts, they don't believe that people aren't going to share.
And in most cases now, they're right.
MF Old
#28
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:45 PM
It's as if new restaurants desperately seek yet another alternative to just bringing out the food in a normal way.
It gives servers yet another opportunity to say "Let me explain how our menu works."
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
#29
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:46 PM
The problem is that, in their heart of hearts, they don't believe that people aren't going to share.
And in most cases now, they're right.
In this case, they weren't "share plates." In other words, it would be a mistake to order three dishes and have two people share them. That wouldn't be nearly enough food.
#30
Posted 04 January 2016 - 08:48 PM
Let me tell you how our menu works...
No. As I'm paying, let me tell you what I'd like you to do, and don't tell me you can't because restaurants have been doing it for over two hundred years.