To be irritated by wanky and pretentious restaurant terminology?

[ManicUnicorn]

I should start by saying I love food and eating out, it's one of life's great pleasures IMO. But I'm finding myself increasingly irritated by restaurants using pretentious and fancy names for stuff and trying to dress things up as more exotic than they actually are.

A new restaurant has just opened here and I was looking at their Christmas menu earlier, and amongst lots of the wankery on there one of the deserts really stood out 'Rich orchard apples in crumble with creme anglais'... so that'll be apple crumble and custard then? Why not just say what it is? A hearty and much loved traditional British pudding that's been enjoyed for years, you don't need to dress it up as anything else! Oh and there's so much 'jus' on there as well, it's just fucking gravy for Christ's sake!

It reminds me of when I went out for a Christmas meal a few years ago. Set menu, and were all wondering what the hell one the starters was. Someone googled it and guess what? It was just a fancy name for soup.

I don't know if I'm just a bit common but I think there's something so pretentious about this kind of thing. Food is food at the end of the day.

Artisan hand-crafted coffee here.

Even though I 'vote in favour' of a restaurant explaining the menu and dishes in full, this one is badly done.

'Creamed spinach and herb cream sauce '

Seems to be quite a lot of reverse snobbery on here which is depressing. Interesting and complex food isn't wanky.

Saying that, my experience is that some of the places with the most overblown descriptions of the 'orchard-apple' variety serve deeply mediocre food.

Interesting and complex food isn't wanky.

Interesting and complex food certainly isn't wanky. Talking about it in a pretentious way is wanky. But then I'm old enough to remember when all the best restaurants had their menus in French.

Talking about it in a pretentious way is wanky

And I rather agreed - the proper good restaurants tend to do that much less than the ones that are a bit crap. But posters on here are deprecating the describing and serving of perfectly non-pretentious food on the basis that it's not sausage and chips.