Ralph Fiennes plays an arrogant, controlling chef while Anya Taylor-Joy is an uninvited guest to an exclusive dinner in "The Menu".
The Hawthorn restaurant is located on an island, a dinner costs $1,250 and the invited patrons for this special diner come for not only the food but to be in the presence of a master chef. The film is a very dark, cutting satire of the elite: both the chefs who rule in the kitchen and the snobby customers. Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) is the wild card, she is the last minute date of Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and is not impressed with the chef or the food. “What, are we eating a Rolex?” she says to her date when she hears the price of the dinner as they’re waiting for the boat to the island to arrive.
The Hawthorn is based on real restaurants including Noma in Copenhagen; Blue Hill at Stone Barns, north of New York City; Mugaritz in the Basque Country; the Willows in the Pacific Northwest; and the chef Francis Mallman’s private island off the coast of Patagonia.
All the culinary details from the kitchen design, the spice rack, to the food presentation is based on real restaurants and their signature dishes. A course of a single raw scallop perched on a craggy rock and surrounded by carefully tweezed seaweed and algaes is virtually indistinguishable from an actual dish at Atelier Crenn, a San Francisco restaurant with three Michelin stars. This is not a coincidence: the chef, Dominique Crenn, was brought on to design the dishes in the 10-course meal and to make sure that other culinary details rang true.
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If you are a foodie and has watched every episode of “Chef’s Table” on Netflix two or three times, then this film is for you.
The Menu is always a surprise, to say more would ruin the dining experience.
89% on RT - Rated R for strong/disturbing violent content
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_menuWatch the tasty trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_uTkUGcHv4 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/dining/the-menu-movie.htmlThe only place to dine after this movie is
Tito and Pep, a neighborhood bistro that is also one of the best restaurants in Tucson.
We started with a beautiful hamachi crudo appetizer
Dinner was grilled octopus with salsa macha, avacado, tomato, red onion, lime. My friend had the grilled Baja striped bass. Dessert was the dark chocolate ganache with dulce de leche, candied orange, toasted almond, maldon, lightly sweetened whipped cream.
Wine was Anciano Garnacha, Valencia, Spain 2018.
Octopus at Tito and Pep
Bon Appétit
