Monday, April 28, 2014

Spinning Plates 2012


Spinning Plates

     This film takes a look at three different restaurants and the people behind the scenes.  A Chicago based cutting-edge restaurant named the 7th best in the world.  The head chef gets tongue cancer and undergoes intense treatment to save his sense of taste and his life.  Another is a 150-year-old family restaurant that has burned to the ground two separate times.  The family didn’t know if they had the strength to rebuild the 2nd time.  The third restaurant is a Mexican restaurant operated on a shoestring and struggling to survive.  Their food is based on recipes from wife’s mother.
     This is interesting and good.  The restaurants are so different.  I can see myself eating at the family restaurant and the Mexican restaurant but   I’m not so sure about the 7th best in the world.  I like real food and home style cooking but also some innovation.  Twenty-five courses may not be for me?  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

93 min, Doc directed by Joseph Levy with Grant Achatz, Cindy and Mike Breitbach, Thomas Keller, Francisco and Gabby Martinez.

Note:  Imdb 6.9 out of 10, 85% critic 82% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Film Crave 2.00/4.

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