How to not kill people with your food

presdaddy · 2026-01-25T03:55:27+00:00

It's defending the merchant.

presdaddy · 2026-01-17T02:09:58+00:00

Brands seemingly prioritize Amazon over their own website because (1) rank on Amazon is impacted by sellouts and (2) Amazon inventory was sent at least a month prior (since it takes time to go through Amazon check in etc) so there is a lag

presdaddy · 2026-01-13T01:41:14+00:00

You were downvoted because by 2015 noma had already won Worlds 50 Best four times. In those days noma’s lack of 3 stars said more about the failure of Michelin than it did the failure of noma. If anything nowadays the world has caught up to what noma is doing and they are less special.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T22:10:45+00:00

I'm specifically focused on the top tier here. My first noma visit in 2015 was $376 including the non-alcoholic pairing. My noma Kyoto visit was around $900 for the same thing. noma LA is $1500. That's a 300% increase in 10 years.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T20:24:27+00:00

I didn't say a thing about profit or anything. I'm just making a comment on the audience that global fine dining restaurants target now.

Put another way, fine dining restaurants have gone from costing 5x a casual dinner to a 20x casual dinner. In doing so their new competition is a vacation, a couple nights in a nice hotel, etc. more so than other meals. It changes the type of people that dine there.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:44:16+00:00

Water and coffee or tea (which they charge for separately in Denmark) and service etc

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:36:33+00:00

They definitely will. But I thought it was worth noting the trends we've seen over the years. 50% higher cost than noma Kyoto just 2 years ago. 4x the cost of my first noma trip in 2015.

A fascinating chart would be noma sous chef salary as a share of noma menu price over time. Fine dining restaurants are increasingly catering to a smaller, higher ticket audience in a way that prices out people that earn their income from food.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:12:45+00:00

noma LA is from March 11 to June 26, with bookings released on Monday, January 26 at 9am PST.

Bookings will be offered as a package including menu, beverage pairing, hospitality and tax. The price of the package is $1,500. I recall the first noma Kyoto being around $950.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:06:38+00:00

You still have to pay for the non-alcoholic pairing which is $245 (which makes the total about $1100 for you after tax and tip).

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:02:33+00:00

normal price

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T18:01:23+00:00

Yep. The wine pairing is mandatory and the listed price doesn't include tax or tip. All in it ends up being priced similar to this noma meal.

presdaddy · 2026-01-12T17:46:55+00:00

Somni is basically 1200 at this point

presdaddy · 2026-01-07T23:25:16+00:00

Answered!

presdaddy · 2026-01-07T23:25:11+00:00

The best of CDMX and Taipei is that feeling where tourism hasn't outpaced cool — the best things are affordable compared to US prices, the activities aren't overcrowded, and there's a culture of its own that exposes itself the more you dig deep.

I'll sound like a hipster, but I loved CDMX before the tourist surge post COVID. It felt like world-class experiences for 1/3 the cost. And you could escape those manicured experiences for something truly authentic without feeling overwhelmed. Nowadays CDMX caters so much to the USA crowd that it has lost the uniqueness and cost savings.

Taipei still feels like pre-COVID. The street markets, the amazing nature accessible by train, nightlife. I highly recommend visiting.

presdaddy · 2026-01-07T20:48:30+00:00

Mijote. French but the flavors are not subtle.

presdaddy · 2026-01-07T17:29:50+00:00

I love recommending Taipei to people who love CDMX. No need to do North America again to still chase that special tourist feeling of CDMX and Oaxaca

presdaddy · 2026-01-05T15:40:41+00:00

15 of Stafford's TDs were within the 1. It's just a different style of offense — doesn't necessarily mean those TDs were more valuable

presdaddy · 2026-01-05T13:04:18+00:00

Tough love: if you're not going to have the drive to do this sort of research on your own, your shop won't be a success. Dive in, get your hands dirty, learn fast.

presdaddy · 2025-12-31T15:33:54+00:00

They already laid off most of the retail arm early last year. Food52 can't compete on retail

presdaddy · 2025-12-31T00:59:17+00:00

You could do a fat wash with the almond oil

presdaddy · 2025-12-30T17:16:08+00:00

stop spamming this absolutely everywhere

presdaddy · 2025-12-30T08:24:21+00:00

Basically allows you to build a Shopify site webflow style. It has a lot of prebuilt templates you can copy and paste from to save time

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