PERSPECTIVES

When the People Met The Menu: Proof, Performance, and What Remained A menu isn’t finished when it’s designed. It’s finished when people respond to it. Up until this point, everything had happened in controlled environments; tastings, revisions, discussions, assumptions. Chapter 3 is where assumptions ended. This was the moment the menu met reality. The Night Of The first major tasting wasn’t intimate. It wasn’t forgiving. It was full. Roughly eighty guests, spanning ages, b

Most menus don’t fail at the stove. They fail at the decision-making stage. Chapter 2 of The Palazzo Menu Project is where creativity stopped being expressive and started being disciplined. Where good ideas were removed. Where patterns replaced opinions. Where naming became strategy, not decoration. This part isn’t romantic. It’s the craft. If you’ve ever wondered how a menu actually gets built — beyond vibes, beyond design, beyond inspiration — this chapter explains it pla