> Also, don't be the guy who goes in on a mission to dunk on the expensive restaurant.

Don't burst your bubble, right? Jay Rayner would like a word :-)

The west's fetishisation of fine dining is so far away from the Japanese model that it allows for this idea that the most expensive thing can still be unsatisfying, laughable or misleading, because it's "in its own category".

It is a trope to say "people starve elsewhere in the world" but it is also a truism. If expensive food is not objectively better food, reject it, and seek better food that isn't expensive.