Marseille | The Most Information-Dense Meal I've Ever Had 🌟📚

You can name quite a few Michelin three-star restaurants that could be called textbook examples, but when it comes to a restaurant that deserves the title of an encyclopedia, aside from AM, I currently think there is no other. 🍴In the small city of Marseille, having such a modern and hardcore restaurant was somewhat surprising to me. It wasn't until the moment I truly met this restaurant that my stereotyped impression of French Michelin three-star restaurants was completely shattered. No luxurious hotel lobby entrance, no high ceiling crystal chandeliers, no spacious white cloth-covered large round tables, AM gave me the same feeling as those wine bars in Brooklyn. 🍴The entrance is simple and low-key, the interior space is small, and with four or five tables, it's inevitably noisy and crowded. The decoration certainly didn't go in the direction of a normal three-star restaurant; it's as ordinary as any coffee shop can copy, with a black-based wooden style. The most eye-catching thing should be the car models displayed on the wooden shelves on the wall. 🍴The service here is also quite peculiar. I arrived about fifteen minutes earlier than the reservation time, sat down, and no one poured water, no one handed over the wine list, no one handed over the menu, and I was left like this until the regular reservation time when someone came to greet me. The strangeness of this restaurant is far from over, because the chef himself is very "strange". From a chef's perspective, he is a genius. It's hard to believe that a non-professional retired basketball athlete can have such a profound knowledge of cooking, and the use of various ingredients and spices can be said to be easy to come by, and the matching and interpretation of flavors are also unconstrained. 🍴From the chef's every move in front of the board, it can be seen that he is a self-centered person. He rarely observes the state of the diners and only has his own dishes in his eyes. This may explain why I think that for ordinary diners, this is not a restaurant that can be easily appreciated. 🍴The courses here can no longer be understood as dishes, but as chapters, each chapter consisting of several small dishes. Although there are clear flavor boundaries between the courses, the various dishes within a course lack flavor coordination, connection, and balance. Coupled with excessive element stacking and heavy mouth flavoring, eating a meal later is like watching a drama without focus, which is exhausting. 🍴Now that I think about it, I don't regret eating at AM, nor do I question his three-star title, because the chef's ability and talent are undeniable. However, in my opinion, this kind of instilling dining experience is almost detached from enjoyment, and I don't quite agree. #FrenchMichelin #MichelinRestaurantExploration #SouthFranceMichelinRestaurant #MarseilleFood #MichelinThreeStars #MyFoodDiary