I’ve eaten at the worst restaurant in the world. I was served a live animal there. As in, an entire animal, which was still alive, was placed in front of me and I was expected to eat it, to just shove the whole thing in my mouth and chew it up while it was still moving and swallow it and .
.. I guess enjoy the experience? My partner and I paid something like $1500 for that meal (half of that cost, to be fair, was the wine pairing, which included a Bordeaux from 1978).
True destination dining: Mugaritz. The restaurant was – and is – Mugaritz , a two-Michelin-starred eatery in the hills behind San Sebastian in northern Spain. It’s true destination dining, the sort of unique, incredible experience that people travel from all over the world to try.
The chef there, Andoni Luis Aduriz, is a genius, a mad scientist, someone driven to evolve dining beyond anything that has been achieved before. He’s also, you gradually realise, deeply pretentious and completely out of touch with the desires and pleasures of modern society. I’ve written about my experience at Mugaritz before, but I’m thinking about it again right now because the restaurant has recently gone viral on social media – for all the wrong reasons.
TikTok and Instagram influencer Chloe Jade Meltzer recently ate at Mugaritz and posted three videos of what she called “the worst meal of my life ”. Face to face with your food at Mugaritz. She included shots of food that seemed to range from ridiculous to inedib.