Heston Blumenthal has spoken about the ongoing issue of diners picking up their phones before their knives and forks while eating at his Berkshire restaurant, the Fat Duck. He is reluctant to ask people not to take pictures of the food before they start to eat, however, despite his disapproval. “We’ve debated this for several years now,” he told the Radio Times. “If you say to people, ‘Your food’s going cold’, you put up a barrier between you and the diner.”
Blumenthal knows that the Fat Duck is an expensive restaurant. Its set menu is £325 per person and that’s before drinks or service. It has three Michelin stars and four out of four pound signs. My immediate and instinctive reaction was that if customers are paying that much for their meal, a dinner that is inevitably beautiful to look at, then they have every right to ask their food to pose. Snap away. Fill your camera-roll boots.
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