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Michelin madness: Nobody really knows the habits of the Michelin inspectors, because they are famously anonymous. He cooks them the meal of his life, with open wounds on his face. In another similarly baffling sequence, Adam agrees to get into an SUV with a pair of French drug lords who keep lurking around the restaurant, only to return to his kitchen all bloodied and bruised and find that the Michelin inspectors have arrived. After Michel gets him in a chokehold - as payback for when Adam torpedoed his career - the chef offers his assailant another job, which he accepts. A run-in with his former sous chef from his Parisian days, Michel (Omar Sy), ends with Adam’s old co-worker chasing him down the street and wrestling him to the ground.

Long Bridge - a structure with no pedestrian walkway! - in the opposite direction of the New Orleans International Airport.Įnemies everywhere: Like in the John Wick universe, seemingly everyone is out to get Adam after he lands in London, where he is hoping to find a fresh start. The next shot is our hero (?) bounding across the Huey P. Once he shucks his millionth oyster - a detail that he logs in a little book, to show that he’s been counting every single mollusk for years - Adam storms out of the restaurant to begin his comeback on the European dining scene. Here, in no particular order, are some of the most baffling moments from the 2015 film:Ĭounting the oysters: When the story begins, bad boy chef Adam Jones (Cooper) is doing penance for his culinary sins by shucking oysters in New Orleans, far away from the gaze of the Michelin inspectors, his scorned lovers, and the drug dealers who are still trying to collect money from his junkie years in Paris.

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I will concede that the food looks good in Burnt, but that’s about the only thing in the movie that seems to have any connection to reality. Watching it in 2019, it seems almost unbelievable that the film got made in the first place. When this melodrama about a chef attempting to achieve fine dining glory landed in theaters four years ago, I remembered that the reviews were generally mixed, and most food lovers I know reacted to it with a shrug. Midway through Burnt, I started to wonder if Bradley Cooper had made a pact with the devil that allowed him to star in monster hits American Sniper and A Star Is Born in exchange for appearing in this culinary calamity (and, possibly, the laughably weird Cameron Crowe flop Aloha). Burnt put the nail in the coffin for movies about toxic chefs Sienna Miller and Bradley Cooper Burnt/Netflix

Here, without any further ado, are some thoughts on the colossal cinematic turkey known as Burnt. And yet, as bad as this movie is, I think it’s a fascinating one to watch, and an important document of how chefs have been portrayed on screen for far too long. Little did I know that the movie in question would turn out to be a strong contender for worst food film of all time.

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As I did last summer, I decided to use a mellow week in TV land to check out a major food film that I’d never seen before. Although this newsletter is usually a place to find recommendations for shows to watch over the weekend, this week’s issue is a little bit different. This post originally appeared on June 28, 2019, in “Eat, Drink, Watch” - the weekly newsletter for people who want to order takeout and watch TV.