Why do new restaurants have to create and use wacky parts of the animal or try and get creative with traditional recipes. Just make good food and have immpecable service and presentation. Making weird creations out of stuff that sounds and probably tastes just as weird is not a good strategy. I have been all over the world and the best places stick to the basics and they stick around a long long time. These dishes just are not appealing: Mushroom Bread Pudding, Veal Sweetbreads(these are just gross - they can be anything from brain to other organs of a baby calf) YUCK., Pork Belly- fatty underside of the pig - yuck - bacon is not even this fatty, Beef Cheeks - this may sounds delicious and is a trend I have seen but trends are gross in most cases.

I just do not understnad this new trend with chefs. Come on, we want to eat creatively but we rather have healthy food. Not the weird stuff you all are trying to one up each other on form Hell's kitchen and America's Top chef.