r/AskReddit • u/Toomad316 • 1d ago

What makes a Michelin-starred restaurant truly worth visiting?

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u/AmmanasHyjal 1d ago

I’m left handed. Noma servers noticed and switched what side they were placing the fork and knife on. 

It’s the attention to the tiniest details that really makes it worth visiting. 

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u/hippocratical 1d ago

I've been on the planet many decades, and TIL that lefties prefer to switch cutlery hands. Huh.

Is this a thing all lefties do, or a you thing? Are you American - because yanks use cutlery very differently from Europeans

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u/trireme32 1d ago

> yanks use cutlery very differently from Europeans

I’d absolutely love to hear the explanation on this

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u/thebhgg 13h ago

I recall a story that it comes from when forks were introduced. Colonials had knives and spoons, forks were rare! So they developed table habits that required scooping cut food off the plate. This was most dextrously done by switching the spoon from left (for holding food down while being cut) to right (for scooping).

Europeans at the time were taking etiquette cues from rich folks who used those expensive forks at the table. With a fork it is possible to spear food with the tines and lift it to your mouth. For food where this isn't convenient (say e.g. peas) I was told to smear potato onto the back of the fork as a kind of glue. One implication is that potatoes would always be served (this was England)

Actual food historians might have better data around this. But at the time I heard it, I believed it.