Ever wondered what it would be like if children were asked to review top-notch restaurants? Wonder no longer; The Bold Italic have started taking small children to haute-couture restaurants and having them talk us through their opinions.
And their opinions are, of course, hilarious.
For their fourth installment, they took Elai Rubinsky (favorite food: “orange”) to Plum Restaurant in Oakland.
According to the grown-ups, Plum "is the kind of restaurant where every dish is an explorative twist on ingredients you thought you knew, the kind of place that pickles green strawberries and ferments oatmeal".
So, naturally, four-year-old Elai wasn't impressed.
Some of little Elai's top comments:
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Amuse-Bouche: "No, it's not good."
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Prawns: "I'd try a red tomato, but these aren't RED!"
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Cranberry Ginger Mocktail: "Cold, cold, cold, cold. I can't drink it. It's too cold."
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Roasted and Raw Beet Salad: "Oh no, that's paint! I can't eat paint… It tastes like chicken nuggets. I usually like chicken nuggets, but not THESE chicken nuggets."
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Squid: "I didn't do a good job tasting that."
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Roasted chicken: [crying] "I think I don't like chicken
In the end Elai’s review of Plum was boiled down to “too fancy,” which her grown-up companion interpreted as "delicious flavors, seasonal ingredients, and plates so pretty they look like paintings".
N'awww!