We've all seen stupid people in restaurants before, but few can compare to those in Thrillist's most recent list of bad restaurant customers. From the woman who ordered steak tartare well done to the customer who ordered pizza delivery to the hotel across the street from the one she was actually staying at, these patrons might just make you feel embarrased for humanity.
Hungry? Wanna taco? Got $25,000?
That's how much the Grand Velas Los Cabos hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, charges for the world's most expensive taco.
Created by Executive Chef Juan Licerio Alcala, the taco comes with langoustine, kobe beef, black truffle brie cheese, and Almas Beluga caviar. The tortilla is infused with 24-karat gold flakes and the whole thing is served with an exotic morita chile salsa and civet coffee.
The taco will set you back $25,000 - more if you pair it with the Ley .925 Pasion Azteca Ultra-Premium Anejo tequila (at $150,000 a bottle). But, you know by now, guac is extra.
Harry Potter fans everywhere know that butterbeer is the go-to drink for witches and wizards and while you can buy a real-life version of it at the Wizarding Worlds in Universal Studios parks, most people can't get their fix at a theme park on a regular basis. If you're longing for that sweet buttery greatness and don't want to head to Orlando or Hollywood though, you're in luck -Yuengling's Ice Cream is now introducing a new butterbeer ice cream available at retailers through the country. The flavor consists of buttercream ice cream with a butterscotch swirl.
Read more about the ice cream on the Huffington Post
It's not so much of an Irish tradition, but an American tradition for St. Patrick's Day to enjoy some alcoholic drinks that are green, contain Irish whiskey, or are somehow connected to Ireland in some way. Your choices go far beyond green beer. The drink here is called an Irish Breakfast, and it was developed by the mixmasters at Datz in Tampa, Florida. It contains several kinds of liquor, coffee, "Guinness mint whipped cream," and Lucky Charms as a garnish. It's not quick or simple, but other cocktail recipes in this roundup at Uproxx will be easier to whip up in a hurry.
Yeah, you probably don't want to actually copy what you see in this video if you actually want to keep your job, but if you really just don't give a crap anymore, it is certainly a fun and interesting way to make lunch at work. And crepes are delicious, so there's always that.
Do you have a stomach that can expand five times its size? Well, if you hope to beat any of these ten epic eating challenges,you'd better.
Our own Miss C rounded up some of the craziest eating challenges from around the US -like the Dawg House Challenge at Dobb's Dawg House in New York. The restaurant features dozens of specialty hot dogs including outrageous ingredients like Fruitty Pebbles, bananas, marshmallows and a whole fried egg. Their food challenge includes eating twelve random hot dogs chosen by a roll of the dice.
So read about the other eating challenges on the list (including the burrito up top) over on Mental Floss.
Math whiz Vi Hart makes a pie for Pi Day, even though she doesn't like pi, finds it boring, and prefers tau. But she likes to cook. This year, she's been thinking about Venn diagrams, so she made a Venn "pieagram."
Okay, she started out to make a fruit pie, and ended up with a fish pizza. Read the chain of thought that led Hart to make this pie at her blog. -via Boing Boing
See more videos from Vi Hart.
The Hipster movement has been all about craft- hand crafted clothing, craft beer and finely crafted food and cocktails made with raw, locally sourced and organic ingredients.
This craft mentality means most Hipsters don't go for packaged junk food like Twinkies, Slim Jims and Fruit by the Foot, so they're missing out on the best/worst crappy food products available today.
But if artist Dan Meth's rebranding project catches on Hipsters may soon start trading in their craft fruit leather for a tin of Fruit Par La Metre!
Dan's rebranded packages appeal to the Hipster's pretentious sensibilities and their love of new stuff in old timey looking packaging, so they can finally see what the crunchberries craze is all about.
See Artist Repackages Favorite Snack Foods For Hipsters here
Bangkok's Luk Kaithong sells one of the most massive and beautiful shaved ice treats around. It features a Thai tea blend consisting of Ceylond Island Sri Lanka Tea, local Southern Thai Tea, Red Tea, Black Leaf Tea, and Emperor Oolong Tea. The tea and the ice are then topped with boba, whipped cream, sweetened condensed milk and sliced almonds. Impressively, the treat feeds 4-6 people and costs only $8.34.
Via Foodbeast
When people make a cake to bring to an event it usually falls into one of three categories- sheet cake, cheesecake, or some sort of carrot or fruit cake with a twist they saw on Pinterest.
These are all fine and delicious cakes to bring to an event, but what if you want to bring a dessert that knocks their socks off and makes you look like a cake genius?
Then you need to make this magical three layer custard cake and pretend you're the inventor of the latest trendy dessert.
The magic custard cake is a miracle of dessert science, created using a normal batter which is baked at a low temperature so the batter has time to separate into layers as it bakes. It's ooey gooey genius!
See Magic 3 Layer Custard Cake recipe here
-Via Good Housekeeping
Geeks were once stuck in libraries, movie theaters and comic book stores, since the cool kids were always picking on them, but now geeks are the cool kids for a new and more accepting generation.
Which is why businesses cater to geeky tastes like never before, and since geeks like to drink gloriously geeky bars with pop culture themes have started popping up all over the United States.
Distractotron put together this list of Geek Destinations- 10 Must Visit Geek Bars in America, featuring The Lovecraft Bar in Portland, Oregon, Donnie Dirk's Zombie Den in Minneapolis, and the big kid's paradise The 1 Up Arcade Bar in Denver.
-Via That's Nerdalicious
When we're young our parents tell us not to play with our food, but for an artsy few disregarding this direct order leads to great things as they become full blown food artists.
Japanese artist Gaku is certainly going places thanks to the success of his artfully carved fruit and vegetable pieces on social media, and his skills are second to none.
Gaku's mukimono masterpieces are full of fine details that often seem impossibly sharp given the softness of the medium, but after years of playing with his food Gaku makes the impossible seem easy to swallow.
Some days you want to diet and some days you just want to eat yourself to death. When you want to watch your body's whole world burn, there is the EatFamous Burger from Holy Chuck Bugers. This marvelous monstrosity takes two full wheels of brie, breads and deep fries them and then uses them as buns for an already over-the-top burger that features four burger patties, eight strips of bacon, four slices of aged cheddar and a fried egg on top.
Of course eating this beast isn't just difficult due to all the calories, but also because those two gooey cheese buns don't exactly make it easy to pick up and chow down. But a mess is a small price to pay for something this ooey-gooey good.
Via Food Beast
Concordia Station is a French-Italian research facility in Antarctica. It is roughly halfway between the Antarctic coast and the South Pole, which makes it pretty isolated from anything. However, the French and Italians care greatly about the food served to the station's crew. Luca Ficara spent a year as the station's chef.
Each year, the Italian National Program for Antarctic Research (which maintains the base along with the French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor) holds a lottery to determine who will be spending the next year as the resident chef at Concordia. This lottery system has won the station something of a reputation for its food, which received a nod in the Lonely Planet as a place "considered by many to enjoy Antarctica's best cuisine, with fine wines and seven-course lunches on Sundays."
While Ficara didn't really expect to end up in the Concordia Kitchen, he turned out to be the perfect fit for the job given his diverse culinary repertoire. The chefs chosen by the PNRA must demonstrate not only proficiency as cooks, but also a robust knowledge of international culinary practices so that they can cater to the tastes of the 13-person Concordia winter crew, who hail from England, Switzerland, France, and Italy.
Ficara was challenged with feeding 75 people during the summer (November to February) and then providing interesting meals for 13 during the long dark winter, using an inventory of supplies that must last eight months, with no assistants. And for the Sicilian Ficara, another challenge was that the wine is all French. Read about how he worked with what he had to create amazing meals at the bottom of the world. -via Digg
Paying five bucks for a cup of coffee or hot chocolate is hard for customers to swallow, so baristas come up with clever gimmicks that make people want to fork over a fiver.
But one of the coolest coffee shop gimmicks I've seen in a long time is pretty easy to replicate at home- the blooming marshmallow.
Dominique Ansel's fancy sugar flower has been taking social media by storm just like his Cronuts did before, but this one's actually pretty easy to make at home thanks to this video and recipe by POPSUGAR.
See Blooming Marshmallow recipe here
-Via Boing Boing
