/ck/ - Food & Cooking

and what would such kind of restaurant be called? I want to go into a restaurant and order a lobster or a fried egg or flambe crepe Suzette or a steak or chicken nuggets or steak tartare and have a chef in the kitchen that is just capable of making these things from the ingredients without creating a fuss

I suppose kind of like teppanyaki but with with Western food

>>11041663
restaurants like this will NEVER exist or at the most be able to sustain themselves in the long run because it's highly inefficient and customer retention would be difficult.
you know why places have menus? prep work is the shortest answer. you can prepare all your ingredients beforehand and combine them to make a dish that's on the menu, so the order comes in and gets out in a short amount of time.
if we were to go by this sort of restaurant where you just ask for something and hope they have the ingredients to make it, expect to be waiting a long-ass time for your plate to arrive since it'd have to be made from scratch.
of course, you could argue that places like teppanyaki outlets and all make their food on the spot, but that's because they already have a menu built to cook fast so people get their food quickly.
what if i wanted to get something like a braised brisket? if you told me no, we can't do that, then i'll tell you that you've gone against what you advertised your restaurant as, since there's "not supposed to be a menu". but let's say you do make it. braising takes hours, and while i did order on my own volition and by right i should be waiting, expect bitchy unreasonable customers that wonder why everything is taking so long to be prepared.

>>11041727
ok, now this? this is reddit!

>are there any restaurants that don't have a menu
No

>you just ask for what you want and if they have the ingredients they cook it
You could do this at any restaurant on planet Earth, but it would be extremely autistic to do so.

>>11041743
shut the fuck up retard

>Hi, can you make okinomiyaki
>No
>What about Pad Khing
>No
>Cajun Alfredo pasta
>No
>Liver and Onions
>No
>A Double Whopper
>Please pull up to the second window

>>11041743
>this post has too many words for my short attention span to handle!
>>>/twitter/

>they don't have turkey, you piece of shit

ok some good answers and some good points put out here but it could surely be feasible on a smaller more reasonable scope where a General stock of kitchen ingredients are kept and amounts of meats and vegetables prepped. maybe it could be implemented by ordering your food when you phone up to book your table just giving plenty of time for the meals to be prepared for when you arrive. it would be most suited to home cooked style meals. certainly many things can be cooked with standard ingredients and very little skill on part of the chef and very little time in the kitchen however to cover all of these things on a menu would make the menu too large to read. a question for 4chan is if there was such a restaurant would 4chan go there?

>>11041743
Absolutely dreadful post.
Pull yourself together, man.

>>11041848
>posts chef triggered by request for egg sandwich

it's called a diner

>>11041848
No glasses? Fake Nintentoddler

only a short period of time before robots perfectly cook meals to order

and fuck Ramsey

In n out will use their 8 or so ingredients in pretty much whatever configuration you want them f you ask nicely.

I want to open a restaurant where the menu is just ingredients and you cook the food yourself.

>>11041817
It's kind of a thing in certain MENA countries. In open air meat/fish markets there are stands that will cook almost anything you bring them for a relatively small fee.

>>11041743
fucking based

>>11042490
>Nintentoddler

>>11041663
closest thing to your description would probably be one of them wacky mongolian bbq joints

>>11041663
Well there is a drama from Korea based on this concept.

>>11041663
It's called the kitchen, junior

>>11041743
DUDE

>>11041848
I don't know the context of this pic but I really hope he was just sampling that soylent to make fun of how terrible it is.

>>11042481
All I can think of is that diner in the middle of nowhere in The Wire. As long as it was Greek or Breakfast Food you could get it.

>>11044257
It looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time.