The Wardman Wire

I picked up this link to Andy Carvin via Jeff Jarvis. Jeff has been reflecting on what will a restaurant look like in the Google age.

Andy reported on the Wiki Wiki restaurant in Austin, Texas.

User generated restaurant 2.0

This is the coolest restaurant. It’s called Wiki Wiki Teriyaki, and it’s in Austin, a few blocks from the convention center.

Rather than having a set menu, they just have a bunch of ingredients and invite you to bring your own. The diners, who call themselves “recipedians,” get to put together their own recipes and have them cooked. Other diners can then build on each other’s recipes and discuss them, creating a seemingly limitless array of recipes. Soon they’ll add ratings and tags to make it easier for diners to parse their options.

Unfortunately it is just an imaginative speculation - but who knows what might happen?

User generated restaurant 1.0

Will someone create a 21st century Pot Luck supper. Might we even be recovering the original user-generated restaurant in the form of the Agape feast - a first century version? John Wesley was keen on Agapes.

Tatsuso Teriyaki Story

And - talking of Teriyaki food - an anecdote.

I used to live in Shoreditch (as it happens near John Wesley’s headquarters) just as it was becoming fashionable in the late 1990s.

• Good: being able to walk to work in the City and greet sweaty colleagues who had travelled in on the .. er .. lube (you will understand if you have been on it).
• Bad: prices.
• Good and bad: the City being shut down at weekend.

One day a visitor from a contracts agency turned up at the door to buy me lunch. The first question: budget? The first answer: no budget.

Two hours later I had had my first (and last to date) meal at Tatsuso in Broadgate.

I seem to remember meal prices in the range £90-£100 each. This was the about 1998.

Tatsuso: Recommended - provided somebody else is paying the bill.

For more food, visit Welshcakes. She has been visiting Annunziata, no less - presumably not the Rees-Mogg version.

Enough. Back to work.