Matt Lambert: The Church of Michelin, the Modern Tasting Menu, and What's Actually Worth It Ep. 221
Matt Lambert earned a Michelin star at The Musket Room in New York in four months, a goal he'd given himself three years to hit. He describes what followed as treating the star like a religion, the Church of Michelin, and says he's never felt that emotional high again, chasing it in different forms for years after.
Why he thinks the tasting menu has lost the plot.
The moment he realized every chef on Instagram was making the same tart with a different color, and what he did about it
Why moving back to New Zealand after New York hit him harder than the original move to America ever did
André…
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