Who needs plates? 13 quirky ways to serve food!
A current trend in the hospitality industry seems to be not using plates.
Establishments around the world are using alternative plating options to serve their dishes, from dry ice to steaming suitcases, here are 13 dishes that challenge the traditional presentation of food.
Is this a step too far?
Peter Maria Schnurr, head chef at Falco, a two Michelin starred restaurant on the 27th floor of the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany served chocolate covered raspberry sorbet on an Italian flip flop, with a brownish powder that is said to resemble sand.
Chocolate covered raspberry sorbet
Image courtesy of @instgramsean
Lunch is served!
Wimbledon Afternoon Tea Week at Mercure hotel in Bloomsbury was an unexpected adventure for customers. Afternoon tea was served on tennis rackets with a small bottle of homemade lemonade wedged into a tennis ball.
Afternoon Tea at Mercure Hotel
Image courtesy of @msleannefraser
Caught between a rock and a hard place
How would you like your lamb? How about on a rock with a pair of tweezers?
Lamb on a rock
Image courtesy of @SiMackie
As cold as ice
Located in Sweden, 200km north of the Arctic Circle, this ice masterpiece consists of an IceBar and IceGallery, plus luxury suites. The IceHotel takes a refreshing meal to the extreme, by serving their food on dishes carved out of ice.
Image via The IceHotel Website
Talk about a working lunch!
Users on twitter are constantly sharing the weird and wonderful ways in which they are served food. This dish takes the definition of a working lunch to another level, with dishes being served on office equipment.
Image courtesy of @MarieaHobbs83 via @wewantplates
This restaurant has gone bananas
Situated on the coast near the West Undercliff Promenade in Bournemouth, they seem to be serving chicken with an Indian flare by incorporating the banana leaf in their presentation.
Image courtesy of a diner at The Harvester, Bournemouth.
You have to be one with nature to enjoy this course
Located in Times Square, the hotel is contrasting the city style and creating a natural environment. That includes serving truffles on a bed of moss (their natural habitat).
Truffles at The Knickerbocker
Image via Time Out, New York
Here's a new take on meals on wheels
Found inside DisneyWorld, Florida has their own meals on wheels, but keeping with the theme park style, serving their dishes on mini Ferris Wheels.
Planet Hollywood Dish
Image via usatoday.com
Let's keep the roof tiles for the roof shall we
We all know Gordon Ramsay and his experiences at the restaurants on his TV shows, however this New Jersey restaurant shocked him and us once again by serving a steak dish of their creation, using a roof tile to prepare it at the dining table.
Kitchen Nightmares, Channel 4
Image via finedininglovers.com
We don't have the 'tools' to eat this dish with
The South West of England, loves a botanical garden, however this restaurant has incorporated the theme throughout the establishment right down to dish presentation serving food in garden tools.
Image courtesy of @wewantplates
Anyone for some pasta in an axe?!
Another social media post, taken in Vienna and people have an axe to grind about this pasta dish.
Image courtsey of @kjmci
He was a skater boy...
Once again a ‘meals on wheels’ alternative has been defined, as this spa in Athens by Vouliagmeni Lake serves food on mini skateboards.
Image courtesy of @ DJAFrankenstein
Let's take a 'brief' moment to contemplate this drink
While in Shoreditch, London why have a hot drink when you can have steaming one instead?
Image courtesy of @genuine_eel
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By Mel Ayres
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