Matty Matheson, on how fickle food nerds are screwing up Toronto’s restaurant scene:
Whenever a rad restaurant successfully opens, other food people think that they can replicate that. Five more of that version will open up, but maybe two will survive. A restaurant will hit some success as soon as it opens, and then all of those fucking hipsters, foodies, and bloggers will fly over to that new pile of shit and fuck everything up. Then they fly to the next piece of shit. But after about nine months, that’s when you see and understand the identity of what your restaurant is supposed to be, mainly because you’ve had some time to breathe, tighten up, and dial it in. You have to keep doing what you’re doing and make your restaurant the real culture. That’s what Toronto is really good at.
That’s just one of the problems faced by the city’s aspiring restaurateurs, according to Parts and Labour chef Matty Matheson. His somewhat rambling dissection of Toronto’s culinary “middle-child syndrome” was published last week on Vice Munchies. It’s a valid point: too much early buzz can almost certainly overwhelm a new restaurant (sorry, a new pile of shit) that’s trying to find its feet.
Matty is a fat, insecure, and highly opinionated cousin of an ape. He sounds pissed off that his Parts and Labour resto is just getting into a groove after all this time being open, and the crowds are running off to the next best thing. Boo-hoo fool. That’s just how it goes not only in Toronto, but just about every big city. Stupid!
P&L burgers look and taste like they’ve been dunked in bog water.
And garnished with a smear of jizz sauce.
But what are you? Just another troll who doesn’t produce anything and is likely this pissy because you’re one of those annoying hipsters that people with self esteem who are comfortable being themselves make fun of. He wrote an article interesting enough to read. You on the other hand…
My apologies. I was wrong. I said that you were probably pissy because you were mocked for being a hipster but a quick look at your posts shows that you’re doing a shtick on here and most of what you say is negative and pissy and criticizing others. I’m sorry you’re so unhappy with your life that you always need to piss on others.
Hey that’s two comments addressed at me in 21 hours, AND you’ve read my other posts. You must like me! Sorry not interested in transgendered heifers like you. Please stop stalking me! I hear chef Matty is into that though… so on with it.
This guy is so full of shit and so arrogant. What do you think P&L Burger is, revolutionary? He followed. MASSIVE food trend and isn’t executing it as well as the guys who’ve been doing it months/years before him. Get off your high horse, bro – you’re a cook.
maybe if someone in this city did anything modestly original it might have some staying power… instead all we get is ripoff david chang fare (until he showed up, which is still shocking), the chase copying daniel humm, actinolite (and before that yours truly) pretending they are noma, etc. etc. etc…. enough with the tacos, charcuterie, nordic, burgers, bla bla bla, do something original…
Thank you. I have been saying the exact same thing for a long time.
I agree with the other comments, What the fuck have you done?…. blah blah just another prick hiding behind a fucking computer, get a life
How many fucking restaurants are original??? WTF Do you really think you can consistently produce original food after 100 plus years of other chefs cooking and creating??
The best you can do in this day and age is to just cook the best you can do!!!! SIMPLE…… Get a life cock breath
Ironic fucking post. Stay original.