The scale might be hard to tell for some of the pictures, but everything is pretty small. I attached the menu to the end as well, and I did not really eat the pannacota but it was not particularly large either. How is each of these items 500+ calories? The first dish is basically some asparagus, second is a tiny scoop of salmon, third is a single scallop. The gnocchi and ravioloni I can see being 500+ though.
by Ysorigin
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There’s no friggin way. Who said that?
I mean honestly that doesn’t seem too far off considering it’s 6 dishes making each dish an average of 166 calories which is really low and obviously some of these dishes are 2x+ that amount and some 1/2 of that so I’d say +-250 calories . It’s one night , enjoy it . Don’t stress , it’s not going to make a huge dent even if you are off by a few hundred calories for the day your progress won’t be effected much at all unless you let it get to you mentally the days after
Butter
Probably the butter in all the sauces but that’s still way too high
Restaurant food is deceiving. Sure it’s only one scallop but it looks to be covered in a beurre blanc type sauce which is easily 400 plus calories on its own (probably 4-5 tbs of butter in just that portion). The dish sitting atop the creamy white sauce probably has a ton as well. You don’t picture dessert, though, and even if you skipped it the chef probably included this as part of the total.
At The Kitchen (where it looks like you dined) there’s typically a bread and cheese course, a dessert course and a post-dessert course of warm freshly baked cookies and sometimes even French fries! This is all probably factored in. Also…last time I ate there the chef also proclaimed that we were about to embark on a “4500 calorie journey” so I think it’s more of a schtick for theatrics.
The Kitchen is usually worth the calories in my experience though and if I’m spending $300-500 per person I’m not gonna worry about it! Hope you had a wonderful time.
Butter, oil, especially anything truffle is *extremely* high calorie.
The chef is like 99% guaranteed to be wrong here. As others have said, the sauces are probably deceivingly high in calories, but there is no way this is 4000 calories worth of food.
Butter and oil are extremely calorie dense and not apparent in a dish until tasted. That deep richness is pure fat!
Does that include drinks?