Hello,
My name is Jennifer Houston and over the next few months I
will be writing all about The Fine Dining aspect of the hospitality
industry. I am currently studying International
Hospitality Management
at
university and
hope to use this blog to help people of all backgrounds to greater
understand what
fine dining is and how it impacts the hospitality industry as a
whole. I will also write about how different fine dining is compared
to casual dining.
Fine
dining in my opinion is a restaurant that provides food,beverages and
services of an exceptionally high quality or standard to members of
the public.The food served in a fine dining restaurant is usually
served to
their customers in a formal but professional way. An
example of a fine dining restaurant would be Heston Blumenthal's
restaurant The Fat Duck.
Fine
dining restaurants as you may expect charge
quite Extortionate amounts of money for their services. This is
mainly due to the fact that they try
to use the highest quality ingredients which obviously cost a lot
more than the ingredients casual dining restaurants would use.
Another factor contributing to the price of fine dining restaurants
would be that the customer is paying to have an incredibly highly
skilled workforce prepare and cook their food to an incredibly high
expected standard of quality.
Most
but not all of the higher quality fine dining restaurants may be
awarded a certain award called a michelin star rating. This award
serves as a benchmark or goal for the restaurant and its competition
to try and meet. However
it is the chef who works in the restaurant not the actual restaurant
who is awarded the star rating. This means if the chef leaves the
restaurant the restaurant no Longer
possesses that star rating. The maximum number of stars that can be
awarded are three stars. There are only 4 restaurants in the UK that
currently possess 3 michelin stars these are ;
-
The Fat Duck in Bray
-
The Waterside Inn also in Bray
-
Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Chelsea
-
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester in Mayfair
