The Bizarre 50 Course, 7 Hour Long, $1000 Meal at Alchemist

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  • Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
  • Alchemist in Copenhagen has 2 Michelin stars, is #20 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and is one of the craziest meals I've ever had. It's 50 courses, 7 hours long, and costs nearly $1000 per person, but is it worth it?
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  • @RandomNeat
    @RandomNeat Год назад +5564

    honestly $1k doesn't seem that crazy for a 7hr experience lol

    • @g.3521
      @g.3521 Год назад +173

      Yeah I thought this would be far more tbh.

    • @audiocorps2334
      @audiocorps2334 Год назад +483

      Yea. Seems reasonable enough with the amount of prep, manpower, and creativity to push out 50 dishes times the number of people like clockwork. Still, 7 hours is fucking long and this looks mentally exhausting from the lighting change to the processing of what the fuck just arrived.

    • @thunderborn3231
      @thunderborn3231 Год назад +111

      they only fed them foods rich in nutrients and minerals that promote blood production , then tried to talk them into donating

    • @alpha_9997
      @alpha_9997 Год назад +4

      @@thunderborn3231 are you agreeing or disagreeing?

    • @thunderborn3231
      @thunderborn3231 Год назад +84

      @@alpha_9997 wild concept on the internet i know, but that statement is neutral

  • @allen1032
    @allen1032 Год назад +4461

    This Restaurant definitely has "The Menu" vibe to it

    • @itsonlyxmabloxburg
      @itsonlyxmabloxburg Год назад +20

      Yess😭

    • @noxvlager4856
      @noxvlager4856 Год назад +5

      Exactly

    • @joshua_J
      @joshua_J Год назад +59

      Yep death at the end unless you want a real cheeseburger!

    • @tiger_844
      @tiger_844 Год назад +1

      Omg yes

    • @benjatta
      @benjatta Год назад +31

      more like the menu has an alchemist vibe, its almost like the menu is styled after fine dining experiences.

  • @caretakercat7176
    @caretakercat7176 Год назад +2870

    Imagine if the first meal is actually a poison and bits of the antidote was distributed throughout the rest of 49 meals

    • @bonelessbooks9263
      @bonelessbooks9263 Год назад +176

      Ooh that sounds really cool. Could have been part of the menu

    • @feliciaboston6365
      @feliciaboston6365 Год назад +14

      Lmao

    • @CrystalRose1111
      @CrystalRose1111 Год назад +4

      😂

    • @blakejohnson5270
      @blakejohnson5270 Год назад +293

      Upon entry, your group is asked to stand in a waiting room. Strange you think, the room is made entirely from metal. Some time goes by, you start to feel dizzy. The doors open, you and your friends stumble out into the dining room, where the host explains that the room you have all been waiting in is highly radioactive and that you have received a lethal dose of radiation poisoning.
      The host proceeds to inform you and the group that they have everything you and your friends need to survive, Potassium iodide,
      Prussian blue and Diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid. The only thing you need to do to get these counteractives to radiation poisoning, is sit through their 50 course meal where they have hidden the treatment in the ingredients used to make the food.
      The meals start off normal... unassuming. Slowly, the dishes begin to become increasingly intricate and challenging to your values. At the end of the 49th course, the host explains that everyone has gotten half of the dosage required to leave unharmed. The other half resides within the 50th dish. 4 Chefs wheel out a large metal tray on wheels. They each hold a corner of the lid, lifting it to reveal a whole cooked human, stuffed with an apple in their mouth like a pig.
      Opportunities for plot inclusions:
      1. You are there with a Vegan friend who weeps as they force themself to eat a live octopus.
      2. One of your friends dies during course, because they were forced to eat something they were allergic to. Your friend ends up being the final dish.
      Enjoy

    • @-Kagura_Bachi-
      @-Kagura_Bachi- Год назад +6

      That’s actually genius

  • @nothereanymore3941
    @nothereanymore3941 11 месяцев назад +703

    A recurring theme I’ve noticed about all these rich avant-garde experiences is that they try to make commentary or statements with their cuisines/fashion items/art etc., but every conclusion they draw is the most surface level, hamfisted take that a middle schooler rushing to finish an essay 2 hours before it’s due would come up with.

    • @WomanTakenBytheWind
      @WomanTakenBytheWind 11 месяцев назад

      Accurate. The only people impressed by this are lower/middle class folks. I don’t need a contrived liberal agenda with my meal thanks.

    • @chuganoga1908
      @chuganoga1908 11 месяцев назад

      Exactly just dumb really

    • @ManofUlster
      @ManofUlster 11 месяцев назад +139

      Duuuuuuude, it’s called 1984 and get this….. it’s an EYEBALL. Art.

    • @RUSTYdiscogs
      @RUSTYdiscogs 11 месяцев назад +59

      Of course ! It’s a business after all. The art statements are simply a way to make the consumers feel entertained and “informed” .

    • @EdEddington
      @EdEddington 10 месяцев назад +34

      It's just a bit of fun. If I could afford it I'd love to go

  • @cheguevara7478
    @cheguevara7478 Год назад +5264

    Feels like “The Menu”. Like, really feels like it. From the cursed music to weird food, to orderly staff.

    • @rifwann
      @rifwann Год назад +114

      Better to not pissoff the head chef then

    • @speakp4ngolin
      @speakp4ngolin Год назад +167

      the menu is based on these, so yeah it should

    • @livejaylive
      @livejaylive Год назад +3

      Yessssss

    • @asideofaioli4630
      @asideofaioli4630 Год назад +3

      Yes!!

    • @godjhaka7376
      @godjhaka7376 Год назад +33

      It's sad they care about certain things like blood and environment, yet serving dead bodies and carcass

  • @SaiHikawa
    @SaiHikawa Год назад +8131

    This feels like a plot for a horror movie, where you eat the entire menu then the last meal is the customer before you.
    Edit: There's been tons of replies suggesting me to watch it. No, I won't watch it. I don't care if it has flying ponies or gives enlightenment.
    Edit 2: Even with the edit there's still tons of people commenting it's not a horror film so I can watch it. Still don't care. I don't want to watch it.

    • @LemonyLemonOfficial
      @LemonyLemonOfficial Год назад +986

      Literally the movie "The Menu"

    • @SaiHikawa
      @SaiHikawa Год назад +215

      @@LemonyLemonOfficial Sorry, haven't watched the movie and probably never will. Too scared to watch horror films or anything scary.

    • @chocolatesouljah
      @chocolatesouljah Год назад +100

      That was brilliantly stated!
      And I’m still reeling from that movie “the menu!”

    • @naurorasen8063
      @naurorasen8063 Год назад +170

      @@SaiHikawa its a thriller not a horror btw, and as someone who is also frightened to bits by any media horror related i would definitely give this a watch

    • @ElisArid
      @ElisArid Год назад +31

      @@SaiHikawa it isn't a horror film

  • @8iker
    @8iker 7 месяцев назад +91

    This isn't just food. This is a contemporary sensory art experience. I started off thinking "how pretentious", but I grew to really appreciate the effort, concept, artistry, originality, boundary pushing, humour, daring, quirkiness, inventiveness and fun.

    • @duquem0421
      @duquem0421 5 месяцев назад +11

      All synonyms for pretentious

    • @lordtrollage2819
      @lordtrollage2819 Месяц назад +1

      @@duquem0421definitely not, most of us won’t ever be able to afford it in our lifetimes and for a hungry man, it might not even be worth it. But it doesn’t appeal to hungry men and it doesn’t try to cover what it is. It is something elitist yes but if you have money to spend, it might not be wasted here

  • @napalaprentice
    @napalaprentice Год назад +76

    Theres an extreme irony with most of the dishes being about unethical food practices, while also serving foie gras, one of the most controversial foods out there.

    • @AmyB369
      @AmyB369 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah I find that too ironic too

    • @Protogenoid
      @Protogenoid 4 месяца назад +7

      its ethical foie gras sourced from spain

    • @jessicahay9305
      @jessicahay9305 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@Protogenoidhow can it be ethical? They have to be forced fed to obesity to make it.

    • @Protogenoid
      @Protogenoid 3 месяца назад +12

      @@jessicahay9305 dude it’s so easy to look something up, but since you are so lazy I will copy and paste it for you “ethical foie gras production which leverage modern technology to replicate the smoothness of fattened livers.”

    • @Stryke_Gently
      @Stryke_Gently 3 месяца назад

      @@jessicahay9305that was the 90’s and a ton of places outlaw the sale of force fed goose liver. They use duck more often now and they don’t force feed them anymore. They give them access to as much food as they want and the animal decides when to eat and not eat. Google is really easy to use and usually more accurate than your redneck parents who told you about force fed geese.

  • @out_of_the_BOX
    @out_of_the_BOX Год назад +4102

    The only type of crazy expensive rich person restaurant I would ever agree with. Its brimming with creativity, and its most definetly more than a meal. Its an experience to remember forever, on top of quality product. Its not some lazy added gold leaf and random expensive ingredients to hike up the price, its actual work and care, and definetly love. Especially if the resaurant changes the experience e v e r y season. Crazy.

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 Год назад +41

      The food and some of the presentation are surely sensational. If only they would let go of permanently reminding you how bad the world outside is and what you should do to make it better.

    • @JK-zd3md
      @JK-zd3md Год назад +142

      ​@@einundsiebenziger5488 I don't know- surely you'd want a 1000 dollar audiosensory day trip to make you think?
      If it was a feel-good escape you wanted, you could just spend a whole day at a high-end soul food place and schmoose around for a fraction of the price.

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 Год назад +12

      @@JK-zd3md I would spend this much for a multiple-course meal, and I also enjoy the stories around the food and some entertainment. But I want to consider it a given that the restaurant serves responsibly sourced food and doesn't create plastic waste, and not be surrounded by a fake chicken concentration camp while eating my chicken.

    • @HpToujoursPur
      @HpToujoursPur Год назад +54

      ​@@einundsiebenziger5488 so that you can ignore the real life "concentration camps" for chickens?

    • @OlTimeyChara
      @OlTimeyChara Год назад +28

      ​@@einundsiebenziger5488 living in your ignorance is the bliss that's gonna doom everyone else

  • @lisahoshowsky4251
    @lisahoshowsky4251 Год назад +491

    As someone who’s maybe not in the best place mentally right now I can’t tell if this would be kind of freeing and fun or just a literal nightmare that would send me spiralling.
    It’s cool, it’s an experience but it’s also tinged with a lot of horror and guilt

    • @pendeja3690
      @pendeja3690 Год назад +6

      Hope u feel better ❤

    • @garrett31192
      @garrett31192 Год назад +6

      Kinds had the same feeling while watching this.
      Also in a similar mind frame where things can be really great, let feel like the world crashing down

    • @beingjohn392
      @beingjohn392 11 месяцев назад +4

      I’d say you’re one of the most together commenters at this freak scene. Peace and God bless Lisa

    • @joemama-ff9ce
      @joemama-ff9ce 11 месяцев назад

      this is so dumb. for 1000$ you might as well stay home and watch PETA videos on acid while eating chicken nuggets and you'll have the same experience for 20$ haha

    • @DickCheneyXX
      @DickCheneyXX 11 месяцев назад

      It's just some virtue signalling sheltered westerners. You can simply disregard their opinion as naive and laugh.

  • @takke9830
    @takke9830 Год назад +80

    I love how perfectly the movie The Menu kinda critiques this kind of decadent out there food. Like, I can see them pretending to be so environmentally conchious and critical of the establishment but from the way this thing is most likely run and priced at, it IS the establishment cosplaying as rebels. It's what happened to the simpsons when they became what they critisized so heavily before. It kinda feels like a joke. Only rich people can play with their food in these decadent ways. so if they actually dared to be self aware, the last course would be nothing but a plate called something like: World hunger or something like it. Or even better, have the entire menu be nothing for the experience as you ask guests to come hungry and let em eat clay to feel full like starving ppl do in desperate situations. that'd at least be a worthy critique of the establishment especially tied to food.

    • @pinkiepie6880
      @pinkiepie6880 Месяц назад +4

      I agree; it feels like the criticisms they are trying to make are hollow when they are guilty of the same decadence and wastefulness. I would also have a hard time eating meat while viewing all that unpleasant imagery around me. I'm a pescatarian and often feel bad at times for eating seafood, so I can't imagine enjoying chicken meat or the like with visuals of caged animals and birds hanging from their necks. It's almost like they are shoving the point they are trying to make in your face. It's not subtle, it's not deep, it's blatant and hypocritical.

    • @lauryg.4951
      @lauryg.4951 18 дней назад

      @@pinkiepie6880 Oui et le gars qui présente la chose a l'air tellement content de lui ! Tout ce petit monde mériterait d'être lâché en parachute dans une zone de guerre où les gens n'ont plus rien à manger...Et dire que le "génie" de la restauration a obtenu soit disant deux étoiles au Michelin ??? Honte à Michelin !!! Boycott de ce guide vendu à la solde d'imbéciles décadents. Bref... à vomir de dégoût.

  • @andrewsoon8062
    @andrewsoon8062 Год назад +26

    It's so cringe that a high-cost restaurant, which sources ingredients through all sorts of transportation, packaging, refrigeration and CO2 emission, is preaching about caged animals and plastic pollution. I mean look at all the plastic used in the interior decoration.

    • @JORDAN-CHRISTOPHERSPENCER
      @JORDAN-CHRISTOPHERSPENCER Месяц назад

      its typical leftist yuppie elitism, they dont want people who cant afford not to but the rich morons who produce 200 times more carbon than a normal person is the one that shouldnt have to cut back and eat ze bugs like the peasants.

    • @wiIdtumor
      @wiIdtumor Месяц назад

      Yes, used in the interior decoration not out on the street

    • @tacopizzasandwich621
      @tacopizzasandwich621 Месяц назад +2

      Most if not all people use so much plastic in their daily lives, what’s stopping this restaurant (or any other restaurant) from doing the same? At least they’re actually bringing something to the conversation using food as a medium, really creative on their part

    • @j.b.5422
      @j.b.5422 23 дня назад

      its ebil

  • @luketweed3223
    @luketweed3223 Год назад +919

    Dang thank you for making this. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to experience a Michelin starred restaurant but I feel like you really let me into one here. This is so good

    • @ligier
      @ligier  Год назад +54

      Thanks so much! Honestly one of the biggest compliments I could get :) Glad you enjoyed!

    • @derekschinke2512
      @derekschinke2512 Год назад +20

      there are some reasonably priced restaurants with michelin stars.

    • @thomashovgaard3134
      @thomashovgaard3134 Год назад +4

      1star Michelin is not expensive at all. Noma and Alchemist are on another level

    • @lawrup
      @lawrup Год назад +1

      I mean if you joined the army or the navy you can definitely eat there

    • @emilysha418
      @emilysha418 Год назад +4

      There are a handful of michelin starred restaurants that cost $30-50 USD per meal.

  • @The_Zilli
    @The_Zilli Год назад +580

    for 7 hours, 50 insane courses that produces a once in a lifetime event, 1k I think is a fair price - seen and heard of dishes that are several hundred dollars a pop but certainly wouldnt leave an impression like this would. I can totally see why this sells out in 3 seconds or whatever it is.

    • @eveali3177
      @eveali3177 Год назад +7

      For 1000 learning about world issues you can save a family from poverty and help them start a business

    • @jessstirland8338
      @jessstirland8338 Год назад +2

      I agree.....ppl are getn a bargain!!

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 Год назад +6

      I'd even spend the 1000 €/$/£ for a fifth of the courses and half the duration of the event, if they just would not bother you with their non-stop attempt to deliver this "the world is bad, but let's make you a better person" message. The latter I can have for free at any given PETA membership rally.

    • @randomanon8408
      @randomanon8408 Год назад +25

      ​@@eveali3177 Ew. Go do that yourself.
      Real genorous with other people's money.

    • @ojtiv
      @ojtiv Год назад

      @@eveali3177 bro stfu

  • @eryalmario5299
    @eryalmario5299 6 месяцев назад +5

    This looks more like an art project rather than fine dining

  • @dontshoot42
    @dontshoot42 Год назад +2248

    I don't see myself paying 1000 dollars for an existential crises at each dish lol. And the whole idea of them making you "free" a chicken leg to then eat it while they're also serving fois gras is hilarious

    • @LegsTheSnivy
      @LegsTheSnivy Год назад +192

      Yeah like what in the hypocrisy?

    • @TryinaD
      @TryinaD Год назад +341

      I think the hypocrisy is an intentional element

    • @dontshoot42
      @dontshoot42 Год назад +86

      @Legs The Snivy eh the chicken and fois gras were different courses so I think it was just hypocritical

    • @AngelWings144K
      @AngelWings144K Год назад +25

      Yeah it's almost like Satan is celebrating the calamity of the Earth....🎉

    • @lmarahmadzay1957
      @lmarahmadzay1957 Год назад +194

      @@LegsTheSnivy they source a sustainable and ethical foie gras from Spain actually where the geese run free and live a good healthy lifestyle

  • @abiotic_sloth1768
    @abiotic_sloth1768 Год назад +1475

    There's a lot of irony here, which I understand and appreciate. But the fact that this is directed more toward rich people that can afford this food makes me wonder if these strong points are actually going to sink into them and let them think about the world outside of the restaurant. Also, if these people aren't super unsettled by the experience, then I doubt they got the point of it.

    • @333funkymunky
      @333funkymunky Год назад +75

      They dont gaf

    • @charles826
      @charles826 Год назад +109

      I get your point. wouldn't it be good to try and make rich people, by shocking them in this way so that they, might become more aware of the realities that happen outside of their world. because in the end they are the ones who have the most power to bring big changes or to fund people who can make big changes.

    • @Hay_Bay
      @Hay_Bay Год назад +1

      Exactly

    • @333funkymunky
      @333funkymunky Год назад +60

      @@charles826 maybe we should just eat them

    • @angela.luntian
      @angela.luntian Год назад +25

      Youd have to be extremely stubborn or asleep to not perceive the experience as intended in its bare minimum. Its pretty visual heavy. You get what they mean when they show you an eyeball.

  • @laurenharrell227
    @laurenharrell227 Год назад +138

    What a lot of people in the comments aren’t really understanding is that this restaurant is more so catered to extremely wealthy clientele. The people that come to places like this and can afford 4 figure meal prices aren’t aware of issues like this and almost take it as a joke of some sorts. This restaurant is a great juxtaposition of throwing it right back in their faces and still giving them what they want.

    • @reylavienna1318
      @reylavienna1318 11 месяцев назад +3

      $1000 yes would be alot for one meal but for the amount you get here its actually pretty affordable, a phone or pair of shoes could cost the same.

    • @Jet-ij9zc
      @Jet-ij9zc 11 месяцев назад +18

      Why exactly would they not be already aware of those issues? Also, 1k is a lot, but nowhere near "rich" territory. Some broke people spend more on a bag.

    • @user-wm9ud9vg4e
      @user-wm9ud9vg4e 11 месяцев назад +14

      There are quite some misconception surrounding wealth... wealthy people are aware of social issues, they just never have to experience the negative impacts first hand, making it impossible for them to empathise. A demonstration like this can only cast two effects; either these people walk out feeling so reinvented and woke that they start to look at price tags or talk about a greater purpose - or they shrug and say, well that was weird. To me this restaurant crossed a certain line. I am a huge fan of culinary arts; I do not think fine dining and hospitality is pretentious at all but this is dystopian. It is a large scale agony simulator for the fortunate, which imo is absolutely brutal.

    • @WomanTakenBytheWind
      @WomanTakenBytheWind 11 месяцев назад +3

      Rich people do read the news 🤣

    • @joefer5360
      @joefer5360 11 месяцев назад

      This isn't luxury. This is pretentious, over-extended on credit cards, upper middle class garbage. This nonsense makes them out of touch with the rich they aspire to be and the poor that they stick their nose up to.

  • @Avannior
    @Avannior Год назад +4

    Course is about to end. You are happy and full and the host comes up and say "I hope you liked the food, now more music from our violinist"
    *rains of castamere starts to play*

  • @FlipperWolf
    @FlipperWolf Год назад +16

    This restaurant:
    -Makes comment about microplastic in the ocean.
    -Literally have one of the last dessert be wrapped in "biodegradable" plastic, which is exactly the kind of microplastic you'll find in the ocean.

  • @ligier
    @ligier  Год назад +19

    Hello friends! I love sharing really incredible food with y'all and if you love learning about the most amazing food in the world, definitely drop a like, subscribe, and let me know where I should visit next ❤

    • @Mike-zx1kx
      @Mike-zx1kx Год назад

      Høst (Harvest) in Copenhagen also have different many course+surprises menu´s with accompanying wine. Easier to get a seat and prices vary after selections but to reach 1000 you need to go bonkers on the wine. Much less will still give a really good and unique experience. Alchemist are on my list but I have not been able to get a reservation for my open slots. I am trying the cancellations list once in a while until I succeed. But also have to be with someone so a lot to coordinate for a slim chance. I have been to NOMA several times and I do not know if you have tried it but this year are last chance. at least for their permanent restaurant. If you have not you def. should. 3 season menus left whereof 1 are veggie so time to act are now. Since it have been published they will close seats will not be easy to get. They will create a food lab based on the one they have now to see if they can invent great food and flavors"for the masses" or maybe just their restaurants, we will see. Maybe they will make some pop up events to test their lab´s creations on "real people". Time will show what Rene Redzepi do, but I am sure it will be worthwhile.

  • @benthe3121
    @benthe3121 8 месяцев назад +19

    I did culinair school and we went on a trip to chef's experience.
    Here we got to see and meet chefs all around the world who explained their restaurant and their foods.
    One of them was the chef of Alchemist. It was truly fascinating how he explained everything. He said his next project would be to dine on the moon in the future.

  • @SanctuaryLife
    @SanctuaryLife 11 месяцев назад +4

    Having visions of wealthy people eating the dishes in a panic, trying to convince others that they're able to "feel" and convey some kind of empathy at these themes.

  • @raymond.villaverde
    @raymond.villaverde Год назад +154

    This for me is the best video ever made about Alchemist. You really took me to the restaurant with you. Now I’m gonna go watch The Menu movie for the extended version 😄

  • @leonarr6635
    @leonarr6635 Год назад +140

    This is the kind of restaurant I would have never thought existed!

    • @ligier
      @ligier  Год назад +12

      there are a few, but i wish we had more! and definitely not too many in the US

    • @shraggso4538
      @shraggso4538 Год назад +2

      @@ligier which ones are in the u.s

  • @princeramblerose
    @princeramblerose Год назад +20

    i’m well aware of the criticisms that could be made here, but as a lifelong enjoyer of freaky modern art in all its forms, this captivates me. i adore the idea of an art experience this interactive and unapologetically weird

  • @doritoarts9878
    @doritoarts9878 Год назад +10

    This seems like an amazing experience, more like an edible art exhibit than a restaurant. Deffo on my bucket list.

  • @fa11en1ce
    @fa11en1ce Год назад +553

    I'm just imagining a customer here wearing a 🎩 and a monocle, sipping on a cup of tea with the pinky extended saying "oh hoho, how novel, microplastics! Yes I do vaguely remember this being an issue, I do hope the poor folks this affects manage to resolve the situation."

    • @miaomiaou_
      @miaomiaou_ Год назад +4

      Lol micro plastics affect everyone, fortunately or unfortunately

    • @rahhmennoodles338
      @rahhmennoodles338 11 месяцев назад +3

      Rich people aren't going to a place this tacky. Real rich people don't even buy luxery clothes brands because they're reminded of the desperation of the unwealthy.

    • @chrisvisser-fee2631
      @chrisvisser-fee2631 11 месяцев назад

      @@miaomiaou_ Yeah but if you're a billionaire you can pay to like... siphon your tainted blood out and replace it with the blood of baby orphans or something.

    • @joefer5360
      @joefer5360 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@rahhmennoodles338 Rich people have banquets behind closed doors, laughing at the fact stuff like this exists and reviling their ownership of the land, this clown show is renting out.

    • @dumpsterfire5886
      @dumpsterfire5886 3 месяца назад

      Usually it’s money that solves issues

  • @staminate
    @staminate Год назад +383

    Also my favourite restaurant without competition. Regular guest since the first Alchemist opened in Århusgade. Now I have had the pleasure more than I have fingers - and soon toes as well 😂 - because Rasmus Munk make so many changes to the experiences every season. I’m so glad you had the chance to experience Alchemist as well, Michael. 🙌🏼🥂

    • @TheMkoester
      @TheMkoester Год назад +24

      How do you manage to get a ticket so often?! 😂 - please tell me the secret!!!

    • @drewb6988
      @drewb6988 Год назад +3

      Can you take me with next time bro

    • @BobRossCat
      @BobRossCat Год назад +14

      I got 7 dollars and a gum wrapper, could I give you that and you bring me with you next time?

    • @thunderborn3231
      @thunderborn3231 Год назад +21

      oh so you're the guy the chef literally hates in "the menu"

    • @joefer5360
      @joefer5360 11 месяцев назад +1

      Bring me a box of leftovers to reheat. Ask for a Sprite too. Glass bottle - Made in Mexico preferably.

  • @brendanbloomberg3283
    @brendanbloomberg3283 Год назад +6

    This is like if a 19 year old art school kid ran a restaurant. They think theyre deep and jackson pollack is a genius.

  • @sylosoncloak8986
    @sylosoncloak8986 Год назад +7

    The food looks good but I couldn't spend 7 hours pretending I cared about whatever message the food is supposed to show

    • @sarahlynn5273
      @sarahlynn5273 9 месяцев назад +1

      Kinda weird to not care about child labour or climate change but okay lol

  • @fatcat1414
    @fatcat1414 Год назад +15

    I feel like price justifies itself for a 7 hour immersive experience and, presumably, all of the materials being ethically obtained to the best of the restaurant's ability.

  • @jamesmcdermott8947
    @jamesmcdermott8947 Год назад +54

    As a chef by profession, this so absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing.

  • @lordeverybody872
    @lordeverybody872 Год назад +44

    I like the idea of going to a restaurant and having the chef chose the meal for me. This way I know this is the finest they will produce that day.

  • @allanallsopp6144
    @allanallsopp6144 11 месяцев назад +1

    came into this with an open mind and was pleasantly surprised to see how much I enjoyed this and your take on the place. 10/10

  • @VictoriaGirlBC
    @VictoriaGirlBC Год назад +6

    No thanks. I don’t need to be guilted while eating chicken or lectured about blood banks, forced to dance in such an awkward situation, not to mention being trapped in there for seven hours!! 😂😮

    • @AmyB369
      @AmyB369 11 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah it sounds like a pretentious nightmare to me and I don’t want to be stuck inside somewhere that long!

  • @asoaresjr
    @asoaresjr Год назад +487

    As an experience sounds interesting, but as a restaurant, it's a pass for me. There's a fine line between groundbreaking restaurant and theme park exhibition. Also I would prefer not to be served a guilt trip with the meal I just spent my life's savings on. If I was going to go out for the dinner of a lifetime, I'd want the food to speak for itself, and not be come out talking about how awful humans are. Theatrics are cool, but shouldn't be the main takeaway of the restaurant.

    • @ligier
      @ligier  Год назад +148

      that’s fair! personally i think at that price food alone is never going to be worth it so i appreciate the experience around it but there are plenty of restaurants that have amazing food at lower price points :)

    • @gelflingfay
      @gelflingfay Год назад

      Agreed

    • @ILOVERICE12
      @ILOVERICE12 Год назад +70

      If $1000 is your life savings, you should not be dining at a restaurant like this

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 Год назад +4

      I actually love the environmental message they're trying to tell. Not that I'd eat there

    • @alexandresobreiramartins9461
      @alexandresobreiramartins9461 Год назад +37

      @@dandanthedandan7558 They're not trying to tell anything. It's just that environmental propaganda is fashionable.

  • @Uncommon5en5e
    @Uncommon5en5e Год назад +11

    The menu combined with the specimen jars suspended behind is getting me rn

  • @ardacanyldz2823
    @ardacanyldz2823 Год назад +13

    Bro is gaslighting himself to thinking it was worth the price 😭

  • @ishaalimtiaz6715
    @ishaalimtiaz6715 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've never seen such a fancy and expensive resteraunt that actually seems very appealing! This is WORTH it! So much creativity, their chefs truly are artists!

  • @SireneKalypso
    @SireneKalypso Год назад +8

    Wow the Menu was right.
    What a waste of food.

  • @gsus86
    @gsus86 Год назад +9

    Amazing! Thank you for sharing. Love seeing restaurants push concepts and ideas

  • @CorvusTX
    @CorvusTX 11 месяцев назад +4

    The level of pretension is off the charts.

  • @dahnyul
    @dahnyul 9 месяцев назад

    This was awesome! Thank you for your work and I can't wait to eat there if I ever get the chance :-)

  • @davidc5191
    @davidc5191 Год назад +166

    As it turns out, the outlandish restaurant in The Menu is tame compared to reality. Also 3:32 1984 was not about data privacy - when written in 1949, there were no internet, no personal computers, no data.

    • @ligier
      @ligier  Год назад +82

      yes, but the themes in 1984 are ultra relevant to data privacy - the point of books is to thematically tell us about society that we can apply to our current lives

    • @Ozhull
      @Ozhull Год назад

      ​@@Mike-zx1kx You're a very unpleasant person

    • @rawfermews4186
      @rawfermews4186 Год назад +25

      Did you read it tho

    • @kevinmiller6443
      @kevinmiller6443 Год назад +7

      Correct. It's unfortunate that it has become a sort of instruction manual for governments around the world, but what's worse are the people who go along with it.

    • @scipio6142
      @scipio6142 Год назад +28

      I mean, just because there weren’t computers doesn’t mean there wasn’t data; it was just in a different format, and yes, in less quantities. But still there!

  • @asbjrnvestergaard9378
    @asbjrnvestergaard9378 Год назад +11

    My sister worked as the door lady here, very cool job, though very stressful enviroment

  • @toridoublecup5720
    @toridoublecup5720 Год назад

    So inspiring! Definitely putting on my bucket list!

  • @253GHOST
    @253GHOST Год назад +1

    This would be such an amazing experience, seems more like art than good but the best food is art. Thank you for sharing this experience

  • @HappilyMundane
    @HappilyMundane Год назад +21

    Honestly, surprisingly affordable, when looking at it from the perspective of a holiday abroad. Once I have some decent savings it might be something I have to try, really seems like an extraordinarily unique experience.

  • @chocolatesouljah
    @chocolatesouljah Год назад +16

    7:58 - Never would I eva thunK that Barry White's music would not only be a part of a fine dining experience. To top it off, dancing is included! Wow! And u got rhythm 💪🏾And your summation at 8:07 is to the point!

  • @katamekothriis1613
    @katamekothriis1613 Год назад +1

    This restaurant is so amazing, it truly is inspiring. It as if food has clashed with the surrealism of Salvador Dalí. Each dish becoming food for thought as well as your stomach. It's mind bending, and I hope that one day I can experience it for myself.

  • @maetaylor5677
    @maetaylor5677 Год назад +8

    it looks psychologically confronting. Not just your sense of taste is being engaged here ..with video and these visuals and interacting this dining experience is using all your senses. It reminds me of a Art gallery where the food is the art its interactive art

  • @inezaa
    @inezaa Год назад +7

    this is actually so lovely. a combination of art and food is not what i expected.

  • @syaftamabeb4818
    @syaftamabeb4818 Год назад +6

    this is one of those experience where it transcends beyond what fine dining is and merge into fine performance art. from this perspective this is a 7 hours long food performance art with $1000 admission fee.

  • @PPYTAO
    @PPYTAO Год назад

    Great video, thanks for sharing your experience 😊

  • @voltsisnthere
    @voltsisnthere Год назад +3

    This restaurant feels like it'd fit perfectly in a Black Mirror episode lol, I love it. Definitely want to give it a try some day.

  • @graveyardoperations7407
    @graveyardoperations7407 Год назад +47

    For a thousand dollars? This seems pretty worth it for the memories and stories alone. If it wasn't half the world away, I might actually try to book reservations for my partner and I.

    • @ijustdocomments6777
      @ijustdocomments6777 11 месяцев назад

      Oof, okay there Elon Musk. It's one thing to have $1k to blow on a restaurant, it's another thing to actually tell people you have $1k to blow on a restaurant.

    • @CyberGeekzGaming
      @CyberGeekzGaming 11 месяцев назад +5

      Well, if you'd consider the restaurant for 1k, why not consider the plain ticket? Vacation aimed at one of a kind dining experience, while enriching your cultural scope of reality? Denmark is a great country to visit!

    • @fex144
      @fex144 11 месяцев назад +1

      I live about 4 km from Alchemist (2½miles)

    • @graveyardoperations7407
      @graveyardoperations7407 11 месяцев назад

      @@CyberGeekzGaming Honestly it's because of that 1k price tag. That's an entire vacation in of itself. The trip, room and board, and everything included would likely triple the cost of the whole trip, which is a bummer, but hey, keeps me saving!

    • @graveyardoperations7407
      @graveyardoperations7407 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@ijustdocomments6777 It's not 100k, it's 1k. It'd be like saying 'Going on vacation is blowing your money'. I bust my ass to save money to get away from the grind once in awhile.

  • @ouchman6966
    @ouchman6966 Год назад +12

    This feels like a restaurant Dr Lecter would own, great video.

  • @sdchef619
    @sdchef619 Год назад +4

    I saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when it first opened in theaters way back in the day. The one line that always sticks out, and I use quite often to this day is "Chilled monkey Brains."
    I half expected them to bring some out as a course at this spot. Maybe its on their Fall Menu?

    • @gregdahlen4375
      @gregdahlen4375 Год назад +1

      Idk if it's legal to sell monkey for consumption

  • @kalyanikai
    @kalyanikai 11 месяцев назад

    I can't handle overwhelming stuffs too well. So, I think I'm not yet ready for 'ALCHEMIST'.
    But it's a wonderful experience to watch it on screen. Thank you for the video 🙏🥰

  • @edwardleung6548
    @edwardleung6548 Год назад +3

    the way this video is made, makes it so interesting to watch! keep it up!

  • @ellelard3992
    @ellelard3992 Год назад +8

    this is the kind of experience i hope to be able to experience one day. definitely adding this to my bucket list

  • @Cloudburst7
    @Cloudburst7 Год назад

    This suddenly got into my recommended and I don’t regret a single second of watching this.

  • @bigbuffben4701
    @bigbuffben4701 Год назад +17

    Seeing you eat each dish in only one bite is so crazy to me, I can never imagine doing that 😭 ESPECIALLY FOR $1000!!!

    • @ethniccleansinggel8599
      @ethniccleansinggel8599 Год назад +4

      It includes 70 dishes and not all of them have one bite portions

    • @deniu
      @deniu Год назад +3

      But these small portions are specially made to be eaten in one go, so that all the flavors can interact at the same time.

    • @circa134
      @circa134 11 месяцев назад

      Tbf it’s like only 20 bucks a dish which isn’t that bad considering the effort made in the presentation. Or like 143 a hour. It’s not as bad as it could be

  • @BugEnthusiast
    @BugEnthusiast Год назад +81

    Wow... I'm not wealthy by any means, but this is going on my bucket list. It's hard to say why but I feel like experiencing this will really add some 'life' to my life. Fancy food is cool and all but above all else I want this to be one of my memories.

    • @RandomPerson28337
      @RandomPerson28337 Год назад +2

      1000 ain't a lot save up for it

    • @joefer5360
      @joefer5360 11 месяцев назад

      This place will be closed and the business venture done and done, before you get there in life.

    • @BugEnthusiast
      @BugEnthusiast 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@joefer5360 True, I can't seem to make it and I'll be dead soon anyways. The rich can have their rich hobbies to themselves I suppose.

  • @ariellev9185
    @ariellev9185 Год назад +52

    I don’t even care for fine dining but I would 100000% spend the money to do this. It’s now on my bucket list

  • @stunter2875
    @stunter2875 Год назад +2

    Now I wanna see the kitchen and the making of EVERYTHING

  • @Destructocorps
    @Destructocorps 11 месяцев назад +3

    $1000 for 7 hours and 50 courses is still expensive, really not sure how other people think it isn't. It's a once in a lifetime type of thing for a reason.

  • @JSCDK76
    @JSCDK76 Год назад +8

    Nice video! Been there and it was an amazing experience. In his first restaurant in Århusgade the food was even crazier!

  • @ochalfbreedotaku5549
    @ochalfbreedotaku5549 Год назад +3

    This video was so great I had to subscribe you immediately made a fan out of me

  • @corlahasper234
    @corlahasper234 Год назад +1

    I love it. A culinary contemporary art adventure complete with global knowledge.

  • @colleenuchiyama4916
    @colleenuchiyama4916 Год назад +2

    Reminds me of a movie where Keanu Reeves takes these people to a restaurant where you eat venison while you listen to its cries of terror while being killed to make your meal.

  • @jaketwigg1065
    @jaketwigg1065 Год назад +6

    Food for thoughtless people. Paying so much preemptively deludes you into being impressed

  • @StephanieGould
    @StephanieGould Год назад +35

    All I can think of is the movie The Menu. Oof.

    • @somethang2865
      @somethang2865 Год назад +2

      that's the right association

    • @SuWoopSparrow
      @SuWoopSparrow Год назад

      Is The Menu bad? I dont understand

    • @StephanieGould
      @StephanieGould Год назад +2

      @@SuWoopSparrow No no, The Menu is great, I love that movie. However, this whole experience seems to be the height of what The Menu was commenting on.

    • @gallavanting2041
      @gallavanting2041 Год назад +1

      @@SuWoopSparrow It's a good movie, but it's literally "This but a horror film", so... this.

    • @ElisArid
      @ElisArid Год назад

      @@gallavanting2041 the menu isn't a horror movie

  • @atticus2581
    @atticus2581 Год назад +8

    i laughed my ass off after i heard foi gras. thats one of the most inhumane food products in the world. And right after the caged animal stuff.

    • @Stormcrow-dc3ez
      @Stormcrow-dc3ez Год назад

      Yes. Totally agree.. If they are that concerned about the environment they should try and do all this with fake meat (to a high standard), at the very least lay off the foi gras….

    • @dootdoot5891
      @dootdoot5891 Год назад

      that's gotta be intentional no way it isnt

  • @merlinho0t
    @merlinho0t Год назад +1

    This is now on my bucket list, it looks like something from a film.

  • @ameliatheginger
    @ameliatheginger Год назад +5

    Ahh i went there when i was 17, it was fcking crazy, especially because it never felt like i was full, even after eating 37 courses

  • @platesmcplates9057
    @platesmcplates9057 Год назад +25

    I think "The Menu" definitely changed my view on fancy restaurants just like shows like "The Boys" changed my view on commercials with popular people in them.
    I hope everything was good tasting

  • @soggysocks4461
    @soggysocks4461 11 месяцев назад

    this is giving off “the menu” vibes and i love it

  • @reenry4510
    @reenry4510 Год назад +11

    What makes restaurants like these amazing is how they abuse all senses. You may eat with your eyes first then mouth second, but what about feeling or hearing the food? It can trick the mind. What makes the Alchemist truly special after watching this is not only does they respect the animal and use all the parts, but it respects the people and the community. It’s not trying to be flashy rich, its trying to be flashy as in enjoyable.

  • @jimmyjoms2538
    @jimmyjoms2538 Год назад +4

    about the blood shortage meal: it would be cool if they donated blood during their time at the restaurant they would get a discount

    • @Blobbyo25
      @Blobbyo25 Год назад

      *Pays €1000* *gets guilt-tripped into being stabbed with a needle*

  • @bitterknitter1795
    @bitterknitter1795 11 месяцев назад +2

    They really gonna have environmental and moral messages ingrained in the experience then serve you something full of foie gras (fatty goose liver which requires geese to be kept solitary and force fed for their entire lives)

  • @psycholamborghini4828
    @psycholamborghini4828 Год назад

    This is actually really cool! Hopefully it's still around when I'm older and I get the chance to go there

  • @silasoconnell6413
    @silasoconnell6413 Год назад +4

    When a restaurant got an entire Testing Door you know it's going to be cool.

  • @Mythriaz
    @Mythriaz Год назад +1

    It sounds like a reminder to people of wealth to consider the world outside themselves and the humanity of the individual, spoken from the chef's expressive and artistic pallet. Where they're trying to stimulate all of your senses to get their point across.

  • @Quinnnyra8733
    @Quinnnyra8733 11 месяцев назад

    I didn't even read the title I saw the thumbnail and clicked 😂😂.. Now I'm subbing because I like the content 😃

  • @bluetickbeagles116
    @bluetickbeagles116 Год назад +13

    What an incredible experience. I would definitely spend 1k on appreciating the chefs’ skill and creativity in a culinary experience.

  • @jmaguire2232
    @jmaguire2232 Год назад +28

    There’s something so distasteful about rich people making a novelty of child labor in the developing world with exorbitantly priced food. Irony truly is dead.

    • @ernr7084
      @ernr7084 6 месяцев назад

      The fk u talking about lmao

  • @dwolfe2907
    @dwolfe2907 Год назад +5

    That is probably as pretentious as you can get with dining. Cringe worthy. 300 = best sushi experience, 200 get some Hanwoo beef, and still got 500 left for wagyu shabu shabu and whatever else.

  • @gustavgude7905
    @gustavgude7905 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love how all the replies to this video are so different and diverded. Just shows how good Alchemist are bringing the emotions and different thoughts out of people.

  • @turretboi
    @turretboi Год назад +37

    So fine dining made by an activist with more than a few screws loose? EXCELLENT!

    • @joefer5360
      @joefer5360 11 месяцев назад

      Get the Pepto.

  • @Uranium-238
    @Uranium-238 Год назад +6

    Proof that cuisine still has thousands of years ahead of it

  • @LancetFencing
    @LancetFencing Год назад +2

    Creating processed food that looks like the animal it came from but has been altered to make it more palatable actually undermines the communication of the horrors of environmental issues.

  • @LyraDavis
    @LyraDavis Год назад +17

    Wow! I would love to experience something like this but I’m a vegetarian. I’d pay a thousand dollars to look at some cool edible art, eat none of it then go out a spend more money on a takeaway 😔

    • @piepo5002
      @piepo5002 Год назад +10

      Had the same thought! Cool they talk about social problems like plastic, and re-using meat, donating blood, but still they serve meat and fois gras especially? Hmm...

  • @saranath0317
    @saranath0317 Год назад +10

    You're showing huge potential Mike. Keep Growing !! ❤

  • @Busmagnus
    @Busmagnus Год назад +4

    This is Heston blumenthal level of bizarre....i love it

  • @sgbbco3981
    @sgbbco3981 11 месяцев назад

    Great coverage. I will have to try the place if I ever end up in Copenhagen.

  • @smh9902
    @smh9902 Год назад +1

    This feels like a Restaurant specifically designed to serve Klaus Schwab and his goons.

  • @vincenttong1764
    @vincenttong1764 Год назад +5

    Pretentious and extraneous.

  • @dougjones3305
    @dougjones3305 Год назад +57

    I think the purpose of this might be to show how pretentious the guests are. Especially if they have you eating something that looks like plastic as a statement to microplastics. Also if they're making statements about caged animals yet serving foie gras it really makes the consumer look really crappy and stupid. Lol. It would have been perfect if after the chocolate bar they had some poor kid come out in chains to take your chocolate wrapper. "The images of caged birds is quite powerful" then eats a piece of chicken out of a cage. I'm not vegan or vegetarian but yea. The chef is making y'all kinda look stupid and crappy. It's very "the menu" like. This creator guy gives me vibes of the fanboy from the film as well... No offense.

    • @catburgerer
      @catburgerer Год назад +7

      100% agree with you, the entire thing is really ironic

    • @homelessboy92
      @homelessboy92 Год назад +9

      Agreed, I couldn't have put it better myself. Either the chef is a comedic mad genius or he's so far up his own ass even he can't realize how ridiculously ironic his showy grandstanding is, in one of the world's most wasteful industries such as fine dining. Perfect irony, whether intentional or not.

    • @sarahlynn5273
      @sarahlynn5273 9 месяцев назад +4

      If anything the chef is making himself look stupid aswell, trying to be anti capitalistic and criticising rich people's lifestyle while catering to those same rich people. Telling people about the horrors of the meat industry and then serving them meat in an effort to be ironic, doesn't change the fact that you're still serving them meat, yk?