Trust the process

Have you ever done a trust fall? It’s that team-building exercise where you fall backward with no knowledge of what’s behind you, just trusting that Bob from accounting will save you.

Tasting menus at restaurants can feel like that. Hand over your money—usually a lot of money, a couple of hundred at least, with another hundo or so for drinks—and surrender your freedom of choice to sit for several hours while anywhere from eight to 15 composed bites march into your mouth.