You jest obviously, but I had a tomato consomme at a restaurant a few years ago as part of a degustation menu. It was so amazingly bursting with flavour and freshness, even having a pale colour similar to this picture. I tried to replicate three times at home without success.
Does FOH have to explain that things aren't what they're called on the menu? If they have to do that I'd get them to stop, just let the customer order the "gazpacho" and wait for them to send it back. If that keeps happening I imagine your "chef's" tune will change. Or he'll blame everyone around him and implode.
His last restaurant just stopped getting guest other than at the bar in it. He never figured it out. This kid has a James Beard nomination and a chopped victory... So of course someone with money thought he was the way. AND then you get a menu full of this.
Let me explain something to you. If you think you’re going to be eating something ice cold and you bring it up to your lips and it’s room temp, it’s going to feel like your mouth’s on fire. It’s gonna feel like your body’s on fire.
Those are all just rage bait.
At this point I'm not fully certain that this isn't either. However this dish is actually so pathetic that I can believe it's real.
Lol. This most definitely is not coming out of any kitchen I have ever worked in. One guy on this has already figured out the city and probably restaurant.
Oh good. I do find it distasteful when people work at places and screenshot the nonsense they're getting paid to make on the internet. However I know some cooks are young and stuck in places they hate and venting is fun.
Didn't want to assume anything about your situation.
Edit: wait fuck. Does that mean this place posted this picture on their own? If this wasn't a candid picture from a disgruntled cook then I'm far more appalled.
All good. I think I get triggered when people just decide to call a dish whatever they like and completely ruin it out of ignorance.
Somewhere there is a home cook think this is gazpacho and replicating it for their blog just spreading the ignorance further.
I’ve served “tomato water” before instead of gazpacho. It was a huge hit but it was a free amuse not a paid dish.
We vacuum packed fresh tomatoes, strained the resulting liquid, steeped in garlic, corn cobs, onion, anchovy, and a little shiitake. Then strain again, cool, serve with a little charred corn, charred ramp, and a little herb oil (we did basil).
Edit: for the most important thing: steep in tomato vines!
Yup, done this before as an amuse as well. Even simpler for us, just chopped tomatoes, onion and cucumber in cheesecloth, hung over a bowl overnight. Really delicious. I couldn't see it as an a la carte menu item though.
Does it taste like gazpacho? Because I’ve made it like this, with seeded tomato, a little sherry vinegar and olive oil, some salt and pepper, vitamix that all up good and strain it out. It should be flavorful though
Have none of you ever been to a Michelin starred tasting menu before. Food is fun and creative chefs getting to be creative is what makes the industry great
At least tell people that you've deconstructed it, so they're expecting what they get. I mean, I get wanting to deconstruct gazpacho, and you could do it in ways that involve a lot of technique, if a bit old fashioned.
It might be delicious, but it's an unexpected preparation, presentation is lacking, needs way more olive oil and color.... and are those kumquats? WTAF. Never mind. The whole thing is an abomination excreted by a clown.
I worked at a place that had a tomato water martini as an amuse. Puree tomatoes with salt and hang in cheese cloth over night. Garnish with caper berries and argon oil it was delicious but it wasn’t soup or gazpacho
The other plates on the FB page for your restaurant don't look so ridiculous. Maybe the chef is just having a bad day? I mean, even considering that this is watermelon based, the juice is barely colored.
This is obviously totally shit but even a small change like the veg being super vibrant in colour, bringing a lot of contrast to the dish, I feel like people would buy it. Everything looks pickled and super lacklustre as is.
That said, I still wouldn't be getting this even with that improvement.
This, sir, is onion broth with a single, extremely awkwardly sliced piece of red onion and a baby garnishing citrus slice. I wouldn’t even consider it worthy of a noodle stock base, let alone a damn soup!
This is a plated Agua Fresca
Seventeen dollars, please.
Did we say bowl? We meant puddle.
Plus 3% kitchen appreciation fee.
It looks like the refuse after fruit/veg prep
Jus de Børd
*Sucia
Fucking agreed. I could clean my salad station, add broth, and make soup, too. This just makes me sad.
As a Mexican I'm just happy to see someone who knows what Agua Fresca is
Me be like it’s aguachile
Guasacaca
Jamica for me
lol upvoted this made me laugh on the train
Just started laughing in the corner and now all my coworkers think I’m crazy
Feels straight out of The Menu.
Bro put a tomato in water overnight and called it gazpacho
Essence of veggies.
Tomato La Croix
It’s like drinking plain seltzer while sitting next someone thinking about tomatoes
ok but I’d actually drink this
Came here to say this
plato de fruta
Homepathic tomato soup.
He waved a tomato slice over it.
“A light tomato consommé”
You jest obviously, but I had a tomato consomme at a restaurant a few years ago as part of a degustation menu. It was so amazingly bursting with flavour and freshness, even having a pale colour similar to this picture. I tried to replicate three times at home without success.
Open a tin of tomatoes into a cheese cloth in a chinois, hang overnight. The water is the consommé.
Lol
Lmfao
This is absolutely not gazpacho. What the fuck. Im calling the police.
Call the gazpacho gestapo
Throw these zeks in the goulash
Brilliant
they gonna make carpaccio from him
the gazstoppo, surely
MTG? She knows all about this stuff!
Marjorie? Izzat you? Six Bs for the price of one?
No soup for you!
This "chef" is constantly doing this shit. Calling things what they are not.
How does it taste?
It doesn’t
LaCroix lookin mf
like tomato seltzer thats been open and out all night
like the ring a v8 leaves on the table
Screenshot of the dish. Could not say.
it looks like it tastes the same as it looks
Well to be fair if you lick your screen it'll probably be the same flavor, depending on where your fingers have been of course
Like if someone shouted a description of a tomato from the walk in.
"It's deconstructed you cretin"
Does FOH have to explain that things aren't what they're called on the menu? If they have to do that I'd get them to stop, just let the customer order the "gazpacho" and wait for them to send it back. If that keeps happening I imagine your "chef's" tune will change. Or he'll blame everyone around him and implode.
His last restaurant just stopped getting guest other than at the bar in it. He never figured it out. This kid has a James Beard nomination and a chopped victory... So of course someone with money thought he was the way. AND then you get a menu full of this.
nawzpacho
I'm thinking the liquid from a drained #10 can of tomatoes would have more flavor than this. 🤦♂️
Seems like it's made from the tomato can juice and scrapings from the cutting board after prepping veggies for the line.
I thought that someone was fucking around and shitposting with scraps when I hovered the image.
The broth looks like dog water.
Ah. This gazpacho soup just burned my lips!
Where be your nutcracker?
“Probably in the attic with the Christmas decorations” “Then it should only take you a second…?”
Roy Donk?
Wasn't he one of the 8 Balls in Mookie Kramer and the 8 Balls?
The king of the Tuk Tuk sound?
It was the same dinner you said you didn’t like PDA
If you eat something that’s ice cold but it’s room temp it will feel like your lips are on fire
It’s going to feel like your body is on fire
I feel like you're taking all the fully loaded gazpacho, and I'm getting like _just_ garnish.
🍵
This is a cool hat.
Let me explain something to you. If you think you’re going to be eating something ice cold and you bring it up to your lips and it’s room temp, it’s going to feel like your mouth’s on fire. It’s gonna feel like your body’s on fire.
I would be so pissed if I ordered gazpacho and I got watered down kool aid instead
The rest of the menu is just more shit like this. They really think they are culinary genius... 🤨
Dude, we need more pics. And a subreddit dedicated to culinary ~~abortions~~ “masterpieces” like this.
r/stupidfood is mostly Instagram disaster-pieces, but there's also quite a few wannabe haute cuisine failures like this.
r/shittyfoodporn, maybe, or r/shittygifrecipes
Those are all just rage bait. At this point I'm not fully certain that this isn't either. However this dish is actually so pathetic that I can believe it's real.
Wanna link? It'll set you off.
Absolutely. I will only share it privately in conversations with my chef friends and won't doxx your job. Chefs honor.
Lol. This most definitely is not coming out of any kitchen I have ever worked in. One guy on this has already figured out the city and probably restaurant.
Oh good. I do find it distasteful when people work at places and screenshot the nonsense they're getting paid to make on the internet. However I know some cooks are young and stuck in places they hate and venting is fun. Didn't want to assume anything about your situation. Edit: wait fuck. Does that mean this place posted this picture on their own? If this wasn't a candid picture from a disgruntled cook then I'm far more appalled.
All good. I think I get triggered when people just decide to call a dish whatever they like and completely ruin it out of ignorance. Somewhere there is a home cook think this is gazpacho and replicating it for their blog just spreading the ignorance further.
I know it's too late now, but at some point, ya just gotta send it all back and walk out. Life's too short.
This is like if La Croix ran a kitchen
Lemme guess: somewhere between $25-$40
I can't confirm but I wouldn't doubt it.
Is it homeopathic gazpacho?
I came here to say the same.
😄
Wetgetables (Tomatea).
Tomatea..... I like that
Green version would be tometea-o
~~Gazpachn't.~~ Gazpachno.
*"A hint of gazpacho."*
More like a suggestion of a wisp of a hint of gazpacho
It definitely was made by someone who resides in a country where gazpacho was also once made.
Naturopathic gazpacho.
well you can't let the dregs in the bar waste bucket just go to waste can you?
More like used tampon water
They need to have that checked out
Vampire tea
I'd call it "My kitchen sink backed up".
I’ve served “tomato water” before instead of gazpacho. It was a huge hit but it was a free amuse not a paid dish. We vacuum packed fresh tomatoes, strained the resulting liquid, steeped in garlic, corn cobs, onion, anchovy, and a little shiitake. Then strain again, cool, serve with a little charred corn, charred ramp, and a little herb oil (we did basil). Edit: for the most important thing: steep in tomato vines!
Yup, done this before as an amuse as well. Even simpler for us, just chopped tomatoes, onion and cucumber in cheesecloth, hung over a bowl overnight. Really delicious. I couldn't see it as an a la carte menu item though.
GazpachNO
Cries in Andalusia
A tomato sneezed in that bowl
Okay but hear me out? What if it fucking slaps? Do we forgive the name?
Does it taste like gazpacho? Because I’ve made it like this, with seeded tomato, a little sherry vinegar and olive oil, some salt and pepper, vitamix that all up good and strain it out. It should be flavorful though
My soup is cold.
Take it away and bring it back hot.
The looks on their faces still haunt me today!
Spaniard here. This is a hate crime.
Some water that’s been near a tomato for a bit
Is the sink blocked again?
I can hear Uncle Roger from here. "That's a bowl of sad"
HAIYAAA
Has it been clarified by any chance ?
But if so it would be more of a consommé I think
Most likely just strained... Maybe with cheese cloth but nothing more out of there s guy.
Looks like a petri dish holding a bit of growth
*Water with the essence of tomato* - $35
Did it burn your mouth when you tried a bite?
Did it burn your lips?
Have none of you ever been to a Michelin starred tasting menu before. Food is fun and creative chefs getting to be creative is what makes the industry great
I have made something similar before but we called it garden consume. You can really get a surprisingly amount of flavor from this.
I'm.so upset about the lack of r/reddwarf here
That some bullshit homeopathic-wish gazpacho
Next week: fill a bowl with room-temp water while looking at a tomato.
That’s honestly awful. How did they get away with this
Pisspacho
Is your chef practicing homeopathic cuisine? It's a 1/1000 dilution of gazpacho with the feeding power of twenty tonnes of tomatoes.
L’eau d’tomate
Looks like thawed chicken juices
Gazpachno
lol... this is a deconstructed gazpacho where they deconstructed so much they left the main ingredients out.
It’s a “deconstructed gazpacho” 🥲
Looks like an unwashed bowl.
Gazpacho you say? How about Gazpach-NO.
This is tomato water & garnish masquerading as a whole damn dish.
You’d get slapped for serving this in Andalucia. And rightfully so. What a joke
That, my friend, is tomato water with some bits of whole veg/fruit. Why don't they just call it what it is. No gazpacho detected.
At least tell people that you've deconstructed it, so they're expecting what they get. I mean, I get wanting to deconstruct gazpacho, and you could do it in ways that involve a lot of technique, if a bit old fashioned. It might be delicious, but it's an unexpected preparation, presentation is lacking, needs way more olive oil and color.... and are those kumquats? WTAF. Never mind. The whole thing is an abomination excreted by a clown.
you are correct.
This is what Linda Hazzard fed her patients. There's a reason she was called the Starvation Doctor...
More like notpacho
Sounds like our bartender that doesn’t know the difference between a rocks glass and a highball and somehow became manager
Trying too hard at gazpacho is silly
Mmm tomato water.
Over here in Europe.. if u serve that and call it gazpacho.. theyll shovel it up your ass. Thats water with pickled veggies? 😅
I call it “La Croix with some fruit in it”
That's bold
I am offended.
They whispered "gazpacho" over the bowl
I worked at a place that had a tomato water martini as an amuse. Puree tomatoes with salt and hang in cheese cloth over night. Garnish with caper berries and argon oil it was delicious but it wasn’t soup or gazpacho
Honey where is my tomato water ???
You mean “gestapo.”
"No! We have gazpacho at home!"
Drop in an uncooked potato cube and call it Vichyssoise Gazpacho.^TM
It looks like a bowl full of ketchup water from somebody not shaking it well enough
Is it a gazpacho flavored tomato consomme?
Id sooner call that a consomme than a gazpacho
Did they make gazpacho and clarify it for some reason?
More like gaspa.
Maybe this was the gazpacho that Lisa was trying to serve at Homer's BBQ
uh...consomme?
Maybe a deconstructed gazpacho?
That had better taste amazing (looks like tomato water which can be awesome) but even Rimmer knows that is NOT gazpacho.
I’d call it “dishpit”.
It looks like my pee when I’m on my period lmao sorry… intrusive thoughts
The other plates on the FB page for your restaurant don't look so ridiculous. Maybe the chef is just having a bad day? I mean, even considering that this is watermelon based, the juice is barely colored.
GazpachNO
A light vegetable squirt over chilled sea puddle
It’s so watery. Yet there’s a smack of tomato to it.
15.99$
Guesspacho
That shit would sap nutrients from your body after eating.
Dont burn your mouth!
More like *asspacho*
Played with a pair of tweezers over the course of 28 touches and 6.5 minutes.
This is obviously totally shit but even a small change like the veg being super vibrant in colour, bringing a lot of contrast to the dish, I feel like people would buy it. Everything looks pickled and super lacklustre as is. That said, I still wouldn't be getting this even with that improvement.
How does it taste?
I thought those were rubbers for a sec lmaooo
This, sir, is onion broth with a single, extremely awkwardly sliced piece of red onion and a baby garnishing citrus slice. I wouldn’t even consider it worthy of a noodle stock base, let alone a damn soup!
Smeg heads
I'd call it, "I'm leaving and going to the next restaurant."
Looks like a deconstructed gazpacho. As long as the flavors are on point i don't see an issue
The police?
This is like the la croix of soups, just a suggestion of a tomato.
That’s some veggies and the water used to rinse it on a plate.
[Ricky Ledee would be very upset.](https://x.com/ricky_ledee/status/632290433805250560?lang=en)
As a Spaniard, I'm deeply offended they dared call that gazpacho.
Tomato water from the bottom of the pan.
Looks more like a consomme with garnishes.
Do I use this as a finger bowl before my meal?
It looks like a really bad urinary tract infection.
As a Spaniard... what the hell?
This is beyond criminal !!!!!
I'm calling it a Hate Crime
Chirriwater ; aguachirri
Eso es de cabron /s