Comments on: Attack of the Backcountry Foodies http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/ Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog, FAQs, more, links and info about randonnee, telemark and backcountry ski mountaineering. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: greg p http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/comment-page-1/#comment-5849 greg p Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:39:23 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=655#comment-5849 As a walk-in guest to the Buttermilk haute route experience the other night, I'll happily say that I would jump at another chance to walk up a mountain at sunset for chef Mark's good food. I hope his crusade to elevate hut trip cuisine wins over even the most critical foodie ski bums. (I didn't know there was such an animal...) That night was haute food meets haute ski and I will remember it for a long time. Imagine a world populated by free heals and refined palates, all making turns in harmony. Right on Mark! Right on Lou! As a walk-in guest to the Buttermilk haute route experience the other night, I’ll happily say that I would jump at another chance to walk up a mountain at sunset for chef Mark’s good food. I hope his crusade to elevate hut trip cuisine wins over even the most critical foodie ski bums. (I didn’t know there was such an animal…) That night was haute food meets haute ski and I will remember it for a long time. Imagine a world populated by free heals and refined palates, all making turns in harmony. Right on Mark! Right on Lou!

]]> By: erica http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/comment-page-1/#comment-5834 erica Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:10:09 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=655#comment-5834 who would have thunk it...... one unimportant playful jab on how one should use chopsticks. i guess my sense of humor needs some work! cheers! who would have thunk it…… one unimportant playful jab on how one should use chopsticks. i guess my sense of humor needs some work! cheers!

]]> By: Lou http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/comment-page-1/#comment-5830 Lou Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:08:43 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=655#comment-5830 Clyde, you had a bad meal. Fine. I indeed appreciate you leaving a comment to that effect. However, I take issue with your comment that implies that my opinion of 689 is somehow skewed by favoritism from Mark, or that Mark somehow has a special treatment reserved for his friends and that everyone else gets shorted. That's a pretty strong accusation... When you imply something like that I have a right to defend. Lastly, what was the restaurant's response when you complained to them about the meal? That would seem important.... Clyde, you had a bad meal. Fine. I indeed appreciate you leaving a comment to that effect.

However, I take issue with your comment that implies that my opinion of 689 is somehow skewed by favoritism from Mark, or that Mark somehow has a special treatment reserved for his friends and that everyone else gets shorted. That’s a pretty strong accusation…

When you imply something like that I have a right to defend.

Lastly, what was the restaurant’s response when you complained to them about the meal? That would seem important….

]]> By: Mark http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/comment-page-1/#comment-5829 Mark Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:32:16 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=655#comment-5829 As a cook who genuinly cares about things like food and service it would be remiss of me to not respond. I‘m lucky to be involved at both restaurants with good people who share these feelings and work hard to convey same. It is our profound hope that people who come to our restaurants (to spend their hard-earned money and precious time) will leave feeling better about life than when they first arrived. Whether it be because of the food and the service or the opportunity to share the table with friends. I warranty our work just as Black Diamond would theirs. And just as you might let Black Diamond know about faulty product and allow them the opportunity to make things right, i would ask that you do the same with us. Please return as my guest or conversy (as life is short and money and time valuable) permit me to offer that money back guarantee (but please keep the product). Hype often manufactures expectation. When we fail to live up to those expectations then we’e failed in some respect. But we don’t manufacture that hype and we are anything but pretentious. I would happily include myself in the demographic that is "downvalley trash". While the court of public opinion is a very valuable one, wildsnow isn’t (and shouldn’t be) what this is about. Please contact me directly at mf@six89.com or mf@phatthai.com And Lou, thanks very much for the props. And I will offer that people should be free to operate chopsticks in any manner they deem fit, efficiency be damned. As a cook who genuinly cares about things like food and service it would be remiss of me to not respond.

I‘m lucky to be involved at both restaurants with good people who share these feelings and work hard to convey same. It is our profound hope that people who come to our restaurants (to spend their hard-earned money and precious time) will leave feeling better about life than when they first arrived. Whether it be because of the food and the service or the opportunity to share the table with friends.

I warranty our work just as Black Diamond would theirs. And just as you might let Black Diamond know about faulty product and allow them the opportunity to make things right, i would ask that you do the same with us. Please return as my guest or conversy (as life is short and money and time valuable) permit me to offer that money back guarantee (but please keep the product).

Hype often manufactures expectation. When we fail to live up to those expectations then we’e failed in some respect. But we don’t manufacture that hype and we are anything but pretentious. I would happily include myself in the demographic that is “downvalley trash”.

While the court of public opinion is a very valuable one, wildsnow isn’t (and shouldn’t be) what this is about. Please contact me directly at mf@six89.com or mf@phatthai.com

And Lou, thanks very much for the props.

And I will offer that people should be free to operate chopsticks in any manner they deem fit, efficiency be damned.

]]> By: Craig http://www.wildsnow.com/655/attack-of-the-backcountry-foodies/comment-page-1/#comment-5827 Craig Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:50:21 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=655#comment-5827 Wow, and I thought we were restaurant snobs out here in California. Even the greatest of places can have a bad night, a less tasteful item (always a personal choice) , or a poor server that can ruin any meal. We have many "great" places to eat here in the bay and there are times when one of the many variables falls out of place and the meal is "sub-standard" for the venue. C'est la vie. Could you drill out the chopstiks to reduce weight??? Wow, and I thought we were restaurant snobs out here in California. Even the greatest of places can have a bad night, a less tasteful item (always a personal choice) , or a poor server that can ruin any meal. We have many “great” places to eat here in the bay and there are times when one of the many variables falls out of place and the meal is “sub-standard” for the venue. C’est la vie.

Could you drill out the chopstiks to reduce weight???

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