4 Sharing is caring
Social norms in the Middle East lend themselves to sharing food. Platters with myriad minuscule bites gel well with the eating out ethos.
Trilck says she loves the principle. “Coming from a European background I was used more to the ‘everyone is ordering his own plate in a restaurant’ style. When I worked in Lebanon, I saw the typical Arabic sharing way of dining. Right from the beginning I was totally in love with it. It is just common sense to serve sharing platters of my desserts to ensure the guest can have the same feeling and experience I had when I came for the first time to the Middle East.”
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Sakti believes that sharing platters are excellent for starters and mains. “However, I am not so convinced when it comes to ordering desserts. I think this should remain a personal experience,” he says.
Meanwhile, Galea’s team became converts when Market Kitchen used the idea during Ramadan. “It was so popular we are taking the concept of the social sharing experience and turning it into a Market Kitchen Brunch concept expected to kick off in the last quarter of 2014.”
For Knight-Pacheco, shared dessert platters are reminiscent of home. “The experience of sharing always comes back to the time we dine at home, plus it gets the diners to interact.”
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