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
