Renegade Dinners

Pretentious. If you are somehow pretentiousness-​impaired, this may be the cure. Attend one of these wild-​caught, wild-​foraged, alley-​found, dumpster-​scraped disasters and see how the people who are convinced that they are better than you actually live. Better than you, actually. Okay, not if you are a 1%er.
They seem to relish the fact that somebody shot/​caught/​found/​ran over something and gave it to the cook, who made it seem foodish. They relish it enough to surrender more than lots of people make in a day for the chance to feel like they are hunters. Or farmers. Or fishermen. Or truffle sniffing pigs. Wait. They are truffle sniffing pigs. Sorry, I don’t know whether they sniff truffles or not. That seems much more productive than you would expect from this group.
I will admit that I have not been to one of these dinners. Normally, I wouldn’t Unilocal about something I haven’t experienced, but it seems that the person who runs this scam is fine with doing that to others, so I’m sure she won’t mind. See the review by Monica C. for The Grill by Smith and Payne. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the food, service or ambiance of the restaurant (which I also haven’t tried). I don’t really think that Unilocal is the place to address your complaints to the people who fired your sorry butt. People use Unilocal to find useful information and sometimes might not look beyond a star rating. Perhaps Ms C. can muster enough support to raise the one star I have afforded her here.
Sign up for one of these soirees if you like to eat in places where the employees need not wash their hands before returning to work. Perhaps your «Suggested Donation» of $ 70 per person (recently raised from a reasonable $ 40) will buy you some Spicy Pickled ‘Possum Penis or Ancho Mole Glazed Armadillo Anus. Rest assured that your fellow diners will swoon over whatever is thrown their way. It is Beaumont, after all.