The restaurant is called Gunshow. I have browsed its website, its facebook homepage, and its reviews, and got some information about its chefs and menus. This restaurant is different from other typical American restaurants in terms of its serving style and its dining environment.
The chef’s new idea of the serving style is based on Brazilian churrascaria-style dining and Chinese dim sum. When guests arrive, they give them the menu which lists all of the dishes that will be cooked that night with a space next to the dish for tallies. The dishes will be changed from week to week which totally depend on the chefs’ inspiration during the week. This is very distinctive from other traditional American restaurants, and it largely increases the rate of coming back by guests. Since he dishes are not fixed, it creates a sense of uncertainty that gives guests novelty. Guests each time come to Gunshow expecting different dishes from what they had last time. I think this unrestricted style of serving somewhat reflects a very important concept that all Americans believe in---freedom. Because their menu can be altered based on the chefs’ inspirations and moods, the chefs are not restricted to a traditional fixed menu, but feeling free to choose what they want to cook. This provides to the chefs a very broad space for their inspirations of new dishes.
The dining environment is also very special. The dining room is completely open to the kitchen, and each chef is working on a particular dish. When they finish a cooking up a round of their dish, they carry it out among the tables, telling the guests what it is and asking if they'd like to have it. If one table of guests wants it, they will leave it on the table and leave a tally on the menu next to that dish as well. This rolling basis of presenting dishes is another indication of freedom. In traditional American restaurants, many guests are afraid of ordering dishes that is not familiar to them, because they cannot exactly know whether the dishes taste good or not just by looking at their names and ingredients. For foreigners like me, we sometimes cannot even understand the dishes and their ingredients on the menu, which makes it difficult for us to order food in an unfamiliar restaurant. But Gunshow’s rolling basis of presenting its dishes successfully solves this problem. Their kitchen is open to the guests and they will show you what the dishes look like once they have been cooked. Then guests feel free to decide whether they want to have the dishes or not.
I am very looking forward to having dinner in Gunshow.
The chef’s new idea of the serving style is based on Brazilian churrascaria-style dining and Chinese dim sum. When guests arrive, they give them the menu which lists all of the dishes that will be cooked that night with a space next to the dish for tallies. The dishes will be changed from week to week which totally depend on the chefs’ inspiration during the week. This is very distinctive from other traditional American restaurants, and it largely increases the rate of coming back by guests. Since he dishes are not fixed, it creates a sense of uncertainty that gives guests novelty. Guests each time come to Gunshow expecting different dishes from what they had last time. I think this unrestricted style of serving somewhat reflects a very important concept that all Americans believe in---freedom. Because their menu can be altered based on the chefs’ inspirations and moods, the chefs are not restricted to a traditional fixed menu, but feeling free to choose what they want to cook. This provides to the chefs a very broad space for their inspirations of new dishes.
The dining environment is also very special. The dining room is completely open to the kitchen, and each chef is working on a particular dish. When they finish a cooking up a round of their dish, they carry it out among the tables, telling the guests what it is and asking if they'd like to have it. If one table of guests wants it, they will leave it on the table and leave a tally on the menu next to that dish as well. This rolling basis of presenting dishes is another indication of freedom. In traditional American restaurants, many guests are afraid of ordering dishes that is not familiar to them, because they cannot exactly know whether the dishes taste good or not just by looking at their names and ingredients. For foreigners like me, we sometimes cannot even understand the dishes and their ingredients on the menu, which makes it difficult for us to order food in an unfamiliar restaurant. But Gunshow’s rolling basis of presenting its dishes successfully solves this problem. Their kitchen is open to the guests and they will show you what the dishes look like once they have been cooked. Then guests feel free to decide whether they want to have the dishes or not.
I am very looking forward to having dinner in Gunshow.