Ban on food snappers in restaurants

The first thing that I saw on the link was "Upscale Restaurants", then I looked at the table and the food - a burger :lol:

Only in America;)

We have seen plenty of people photographing food in restaurants, and the majority have been Japanese tourists.
 
My better half once took shots on her mobile of all the courses at Tom Kitchin's restuarant. No better way to indicate that you're not used to Michelin star restuarants and you've saved all your pocket money for years for a night out.

I've only once taken a shot of restuarant food :-


cuy by Zambog, on Flickr
 
When on holiday, I certainly do if it's an unusual dish.
 
If I'm out and get served a good pie I'll grab a snap, I know a few pie fans though so it is important to record the delights that is meat and pastry. Well I say so.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I bloody don't.
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Good for you!

Ive taken pictures of food, when it's looked interesting. But, never with flash, or a gorillapod :D
 
I've taken many a shot of food in the past. But always before it has visited the abattoir.
 
if the food is so wierd that i feel i have to whip out the camera then odds on i wouldnt of ordered it in the first place!

And what the hell is that battered road kill on a plate!?
 
zednini said:
My better half once took shots on her mobile of all the courses at Tom Kitchin's restuarant. No better way to indicate that you're not used to Michelin star restuarants and you've saved all your pocket money for years for a night out.

I've only once taken a shot of restuarant food :-


cuy by Zambog, on Flickr
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I have to ask, what is that? There doesn't look to be enough meat on it to feed my cat!
 
According to the description under the image on flickr it's Fried Guinea pig :/ I have to say, I'd rather go hungry
 
You would be after just the one!
 
PMN said:
I have to ask, what is that? There doesn't look to be enough meat on it to feed my cat!
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As Cagey says it's guinea pig. 65 million of the little critters are consumed by Peruvians every year. Not a lot of meat, a bit stringy, lots of little bones, and doesn't taste of much. As I'm from north of the border I'd have preferred it to be battered before being deep fried. ;)
 
zednini said:
No better way to indicate that you're not used to Michelin star restuarants and you've saved all your pocket money for years for a night out.
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hmmmm this has to be a joke, very un informed post, and sorry sir i say your talking out of your back side. nothing wrong with taking pictures whist eating some where nice.
 
zednini said:
As Cagey says it's guinea pig. 65 million of the little critters are consumed by Peruvians every year. Not a lot of meat, a bit stringy, lots of little bones, and doesn't taste of much. As I'm from north of the border I'd have preferred it to be battered before being deep fried. ;)
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I think I'll stick to cow and pig! :lol:
 
formula400 said:
hmmmm this has to be a joke, very un informed post, and sorry sir i say your talking out of your back side. nothing wrong with taking pictures whist eating some where nice.
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That's just the response I had from my misses at the time when I raised it with her :) As I've only ever eaten at the one Michelin star restuarant and nobody else was doing it perhaps I extrapolated from too small a sample. Excuse my dour Scottish Presbyterianism but that's how I felt.
 
Honestly I don't see anything wrong with snapping food in restaurants. It's just a bit of fun. So long as you're discreet, not using flash or drawing attention to yourself, or embarrassing your mates or date, and you don't dwell on it - just take out your camera take the shot and put it away! :)
 
Cagey75 said:
Honestly I don't see anything wrong with snapping food in restaurants. It's just a bit of fun. So long as you're discreet, not using flash or drawing attention to yourself, or embarrassing your mates or date, and you don't dwell on it - just take out your camera take the shot and put it away! :)
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I agree. Just because I felt a particular way in a specific situation the inference seems to have been drawn that I am against it.
 
Now, if I seen someone take out a gorillapod or stand up on a table to shoot their food, I'd be taking photos of them! posting on facebook for funny captions.
 
I don't see the need to photograph food either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRBxRlsYR0

Never done it...never will.

I don't feel the need to record what I ate. None of my family and friends are interested in what I had for lunch....really really don't get it.
 
Love how some People feel the need to emphasis how much they are against photographing food. Like they were so much the better for it. I mean, we don't need to know who doesn't. Rather who does. .
 
Cagey75 said:
Love how some People feel the need to emphasis how much they are against photographing food. Like they were so much the better for it. I mean, we don't need to know who doesn't. Rather who does. .
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Well, as the opening post stated 'c'mon we all do it'

it seems reasonable that people who don't would challenge that statement.
 
Plus a smiley face? meaning ... joke. And no, they don't have to challenge anything in a light hearted thread ;) They could just ... not bother with it maybe?
 
formula400 said:
i work as a pastry chef and when i go out eating ill always take pics from start to end, from places pushing for a star to the 3stars, i want to remember what i had, look at what we had, plus as a chef, compare what we are doing to others.

plus these people never seem to have a problem.

http://cumbriafoodie.wordpress.com

http://www.thecriticalcouple.com/index.html
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Just for you Lewis, not a restaurant, but I have often wished that I had my camera handy in some Burgundian restaurants.

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Cagey75 said:
Plus a smiley face? meaning ... joke. And no, they don't have to challenge anything in a light hearted thread ;) They could just ... not bother with it maybe?
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Agreed.... no one has to challenge anything...but surely the whole point of forum post is to start a debate. ;)
 
Ya ok ;)

next time you're in a restaurant I challenge you to shoot your food! Just for the craic, and post it up here.
 
Last time I snapped food was yesterday - a breadstick. I've shot food too but in the field rather than on a plate.
 
there is as much of a point taking pictures of your food as there is walking out in to a field and taking a picture of a tree, i would't bother taking pictures of my local curry house or an Italian "up town", but when your into your food and you make a trip to some where thats got a star or similar why not, heres my set from tuddenham mill, 1 of only 2 times i ever took my DSLR, http://www.flickr.com/photos/27177698@N07/sets/72157629924345214/with/7282275394/

i really wanted to go there for a while, saw loads of info about the chef, it was a chance to combine 2 loves, food and photography.

but all the other meals i've had ill just use the iPhone, but ill do each dish from start to finish. why just get a menu at the end when you can have pictures to go with it.
 
zednini said:
My better half once took shots on her mobile of all the courses at Tom Kitchin's restuarant. No better way to indicate that you're not used to Michelin star restuarants and you've saved all your pocket money for years for a night out.

I've only once taken a shot of restuarant food :-


cuy by Zambog, on Flickr
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Is that a rat?:lol:
 
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