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Upscale Dining Orlando Style
There is a tendency to take the pleasure of eating well and turn it into something over-intellectualised. Anyone who enjoys good food will be more than familiar with this tendency, where a good meal becomes something akin to a work of art, as though eating well needed to be turned into something more worthy of attention. Liking good food is completely normal, and doesn't need to be turned into something more than what it is. A great meal is not a "culinary symphony" and nor is it a "gastronomic piece de resistance". It is a great meal, and that is worthy enough of celebration. Giving it the praise it deserves does not need to turn into a discussion on literature, music or art. Food is important enough to be discussed on its own merits.
Upscale dining is something that often attracts more than its fair share of sneering. There is an inverted snobbery that seems to prize quantity over quality and convenience over enjoyment. All too often we rush our meals because there is something else we need to be doing. In many parts of the world, though, people will not take their meals in front of the television. They will sit at the table for well over an hour, talk to each other and eat at a sedate pace. It's a heck of a lot better for the digestion and it leads to a more rounded lifestyle - but this is something that is being lost. It is a shame. Good food is so much more than just fuel to help us live and work.
Eating in a good restaurant brings some of that element back into the dining experience. The further upscale you move, the more the food is prized as a part of the whole thing rather than something to be got out of the way before you move on to watching a game or talking about work. It is often said that the difference between continental Europe and the English speaking world is that in the former they work to live, while in the latter they live to work. Although neither part of the world has the work-life balance just perfect is it so wrong to prize enjoyment as highly, or more so, as work?
A great restaurant takes the matter of respecting food seriously. The management and the staff are knowledgeable about food because they have paid attention to what people enjoy. The meals that they serve are so enjoyable precisely because they have been conceived and prepared by people who give a bit more thought to a meal than just deciding on something and getting it out of the way so that people can get on with more important matters. Why not take a couple of hours to enjoy a meal rather than trying to get it done as quickly as possible? Why should mealtimes be a matter of hurried cooking, rushed eating and then everyone splitting up to do different things? This is what upscale dining seeks to address, and it is a place where people can join in the fun.
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