Almost 40% of my fine dining experiences have been bad
I've gone to 13 fine-dining restaurants in my life, 9 michelin star rated, and 4 others that don't have one. 5 were bad experiences.
Bad meaning the food was absolutely bland and mediocre (with exceptions of course), or even bad.
Special mention to ABaC, which was my first experience ever.
Then, Kissa Tanto in Vancouver, a fancy 150$ sushi in Tokyo, a 2 start in Spain, a 1 star in Spain... Experiences that after leaving the restaurant we felt like we have been robbed because the food was absolutely not worth it.
Is this normal? I had just bad luck with the menus or what? The 2 starts for example was recently granted the 2nd (less than 1 year when we went) and had a 4.8 with more than 1k reviews in google maps...
But it's starting to feel that going to such restaurants is a hit or miss and they are very expensive...