We Want Plates, a Twitter campaign against the restaurant trend for serving food on breadboards and miniature shopping trolleys, launched six months ago. Now some chefs are scrapping their slates. We serve up some of the worst offenders
Why would you serve chips inside a miniature shopping trolley? To disguise a portion that would fit inside a cigarette packet? Because nothing says “tasty” like a tiny recreation of a freshers’ week piss-up? Or is it because no one’s been kind enough to say: “Dude! You work in a greasy spoon!”?
These are the questions that, since March, Ross McGinnes has been asking via his We Want Plates Twitter account. To rail against pretentious restaurants’ “gastropub style-over-content nonsense”, he tweets photographs – largely submitted by his followers – of their more baffling presentation choices. Think casseroles served in jars, desserts that have been squished into plant pots, and fry-ups dolloped atop garden shovels. All of these are actual examples.
Fake fryer and chopping board sent back to the kitchen in exchange for a nice, white plate. Good work, @gemmasomersetpic.twitter.com/fPFuHpPOyM
One for you @WeWantPlatespic.twitter.com/Ro2zhHf4pc
One for @WeWantPlates Here's a friends prawn cocktail in Croatia served on top of a LIVE goldfish! pic.twitter.com/pRwniJdwMf
Ha ha n stel Britten in shock door mijn tweet met prikkeldraad-amuse @RestaurantZarzo. Niks gewend daar zeker?! pic.twitter.com/EQpF9qvYy3
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