Interesting facts about restaurants

A restaurant today is not at all a luxury, but rather an integral part of the life of a modern person. Restaurants in the country, in noisy centers, in quiet squares, we go there to relax from home fuss, enjoy your favorite dishes, or try something new. But restaurants are not just exquisite cooking, it is also a storehouse of interesting facts, that’s not all …
Let’s say the leader in the number of restaurants in its territory is Paris, and these same restaurants are popular not only in the capital of France, but also far beyond its borders.
And in expensive restaurants they still honor traditions. Say, a sommelier is obliged to bring a cork before you bring the ordered wine, and you are obliged to examine and smell it. This is a long-standing tradition that came to us from the time when wines were not labeled and what wine you would be able to drink now was only possible by labeling on cork.
Interesting facts about restaurants
In Spain, the oldest operating restaurant is Casa Botin, opened back in 1725.
There are also quite non-standard restaurants, as they say in taste and color. So in Chicago and Rome there are restaurants where it is considered the norm to insult and in every way humiliate customers. Attendants specifically talking to visitors and among themselves are very rude, insults, bullying, vulgar vulgar jokes are considered here in a “healthy tone.” Visitors who are not informed of such a tradition even write complaints to the relevant authorities, complaining about the violation of public ethics.
There are restaurants where visitors can throw out their anger, breaking dishes, there are some where you can personally catch your lunch, yes there are all sorts, just one at a time and not list.
Restaurants became a field of discovery for many of our favorite dishes. Let’s say it was in the restaurant that the chips were invented. In 1853, in one of the American restaurants where George Cram worked, the signature recipe was french fries. One day, the visitor returned this most special dish, complaining about its excessive thickness. Crum decided to make fun of the latter by cutting potatoes as thick as a sheet of paper and frying in oil. So there were chips, which later became the most popular dish in the restaurant.
And there are restaurants for extreme sports. So on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, which is included in the group of the Canary Islands, the restaurant El Diablo is located (which literally means devil in Spanish). The dishes here are prepared right above the mouth of an active volcano, the temperature of which reaches above 400 ° C.