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I finally found a place and poked my head in. A bunch of old bearded Somali men in skullcaps all turned and stared at me and Al Jazeera was on in the corner.
No menu was visible so I approached the counter and asked the man behind it what was for lunch. He responded, “Goat.”
I replied, “Can you be more specific?”
He replied again “Goat.” but added “$8”
Most good restaurants I’ve been to don’t actually have a menu you choose from - you get what’s seasonal and what the kitchen has planned for. The only real inputs are how much you are going to eat and how drunk you want to be at the end of it.
I’ve been to one restaurant in the lower price range that also adopted this concept, though with a twist. There’s not really a menu to choose from, you get what you get, but the waiter will update the blackboard with “what you get if you order now”.
The reason I prefer this is because it tends to focus on what’s seasonal and what is the chef good at.