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Plating is an art form, as these videos demonstrate, but some restaurants just don’t get it, do they?
We Want Plates started life as a Twitter campaign a couple of years ago, a crusade “against serving food on bits of wood and roof slates, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars.” It now has over 120,000 followers and a website.
People can submit any offending examples they find to curator Ross McGinnes and if they’re stupid enough, there’s a good chance he’ll feature them.
Check out a selection of crazy plating ideas below: some are just a little misguided and overly pretentious, while others just don’t make any sense and break the cardinal rule of plating, namely if it makes the dish more difficult to eat, don’t do it.
Our personal favourite, if you can call it that, is the breakfast served in a dog bowl – no-one, repeat no-one wants to eat a meal out of a dog bowl.
You can't go wrong with a classic Shepherd's Pie. Unless you're the Old George Inn, South Cerney.
(Pic: @headcovers) pic.twitter.com/eNp4qLS1ou— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) January 24, 2016
Enjoy your fry-up tomorrow morning, but spare a thought for people who still eat off garden tools.
(Pic: @Bassboy73) pic.twitter.com/CyHGPRtrVy— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) October 16, 2015
Sausage, chips and... other stuff... at Varsity, Warwick.
Yes, that is a dog bowl.
(Pic: @zoecarrington) pic.twitter.com/Uk25iPcBw2
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) July 27, 2015
Chefs who serve pancakes and syrup on a board with no gutter have clearly never waited tables.
(Pic: @gavroche2000) pic.twitter.com/h2rE0IdJaE
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) October 4, 2015
"Tonight's special is the fish."
"What sort of fish?"
"A gold one. And we'll need it back."(Pic: @DARRENR6) pic.twitter.com/BQsouKkkW3
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 19, 2015
Coleslaw in a shopping trolley. The end of the world is nigh.
(Pic: @bobgranleese) pic.twitter.com/eUUJ3P2J5m— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) February 26, 2016
"Would you like some bread while you wait?"
*five minutes later*
"I'M FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD."
(Pic: @megoizzy) pic.twitter.com/OKajYfWSl1
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) June 9, 2016
Squid in a clog.
A CLOG.
(Pic: @hcbn) pic.twitter.com/634Z2uJONZ
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) September 21, 2015
"How would you like your iced coffee?"
"Deconstructed and served on a child's book, please."(Pic: Lyn Nguyen) pic.twitter.com/deBZOZ7JPj
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 29, 2016
"Chef, we can't keep charging people so much for some bits of fruit on a plate."
"FETCH THE MUG TREE AND A DRILL."(Pic: @Aunty_Marianne) pic.twitter.com/63h3uIiuFp
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 15, 2016
Happy #NationalBurgerDay ? pic.twitter.com/Nhs5enx3KY
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 25, 2016
Call us cynical, but we don't believe this skateboard will see the inside of a dishwasher.
(Pic: @GabrielGTweets) pic.twitter.com/xJmcyPw6JS— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) July 20, 2016
I told the waitress, ripping the piss, that she forgot to give me the brush. Ripping the piss, she brought me one. pic.twitter.com/OoX496S3pW
— Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) March 21, 2016
Because why wouldn't you want onion rings hanging on salvage from the restaurant's bathroom refit? (Pic: @FSekeleni) pic.twitter.com/mDk4ip87aH
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) December 6, 2015
A reminder to all chefs during #BritishSausageWeek: sausage and mash does not belong in a glass. (Pic: @mickmcavoy) pic.twitter.com/nEr7zJ719m
— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) November 4, 2015
