The Most Expensive Restaurants In America

Overview

There are restaurants where you choose what to eat. And then there are restaurants where the chef decides what you’re eating; course by course, surprise by surprise, with no menu and no idea what the final bill will be. Welcome to the strange world of chef’s tables, tasting menus, prix fixe dining, and restaurants with no menus. In this episode of Weird History Food, we explore the bizarre history of restaurants where you surrender control, trust the chef, and only discover what you’ve ordered after it arrives. Because sometimes the meal is a culinary masterpiece. And sometimes the bill arrives like a plot twist you absolutely should have seen coming.