Quote: (12-21-2013 11:48 PM)MSW2007 Wrote:
In my experience, staff meals at a lot of restaurants are better than most of the shit on the menu. I've had a few excellent ones at ethnic restaurants because I knew the people that owned or managed the place, and told them I wanted something "authentic," not something prepared for the American palate.
Yep. I'll vouch for that. If my sous chef fucks up our fish order and we've got a surplus of seabass in house, bet your ass we're frying it up for fish tacos. I keep a stash of locally made tortillas in the walk-in just for staff meal. I'll have one guy make a batch of guac™, some shredded lettuce, mix up some crema (just equal parts creme fraiche/sour cream and mayo) and some pico de gallo. We eat fresh fish tacos while some asshole upstairs is ordering a vegetarian soup.