Small Plates | The New York Times

Crispy Japanese Snapper! Yum! Those lucky kids! "It taste like soap. Why am I eating soap right now?" Says one child after trying Squash Ravioli With Pork Belly (a la Plancha), lol... Interesting and comical vid by The New York Times of six second-graders' reactions to eating at a fancy restaurant where each plate is an incredible $220 a person!...

One Saturday afternoon last month, six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn got a head start on the fine-dining life when they visited the acclaimed French restaurant Daniel. There, five waiters presented them with a seven-course tasting menu (after the trio of canapés and an amuse-bouche, naturellement). The meal was overseen by the star chef and eponym himself, Daniel Boulud, whose goal was, he says, “for the children to really discover a lot of flavor, a lot of layers, a lot of texture.” These discoveries included Smoked Paprika Cured Hamachi (the “most-foreign thing for them,” Boulud says), Crispy Japanese Snapper (“which they loved to see”) and Wagyu Beef Rib-Eye (“a big success”).