Though recent advances in social media has yet to evolve to
match current etiquette, should excessive of food instagramming while dining in
a fine restaurant considered a bad practice?
By: Ringo Bones
Heston Blumenthal – three Michelin star chef and proprietor
of Fat Duck restaurant – recently bemoans the practice of diners taking
excessive Instagram photos of his food as it gets cold enough to become unappealing
instead of his patrons prioritizing in the consumption of his culinary masterpieces.
And yet the famed chef has been tempted to lecture to their customers that
excessive Instagraming can be a breach of etiquette because your food is going
cold, but fortunately, has not yet done so.
Like the famed chef, I too find it somewhat a breach of
existing etiquette when diners prioritize Instagraming their food until it
grows cold instead of appreciating it by eating it right away. Even though
social media has recently become a big part of our lives, it seems that
sensibility of matching existing etiquette with social media has been thrown
away like the proverbial baby with the bathwater out of the window. Food photos
are quite different from fine dining if you ask me.
