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Enchanted Hat posted:No, this is a quiche: That sounds like a pretty awesome main dish, but I can't imagine eating it after already having had a full meal.
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The mobster relation for the horse is that the Don, in the movie that is most certainly not about his life, killed the favorite race horse of a movie director or something and put the decapitated head either on the front porch or in the directors bed for not agreeing to do as the Don said. Been awhile since I saw the Godfather so I might remeber the details wrong.
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CVE posted:The mobster relation for the horse is that the Don, in the movie that is most certainly not about his life, killed the favorite race horse of a movie director or something and put the decapitated head either on the front porch or in the directors bed for not agreeing to do as the Don said. Oh yeah, that makes sense! So the horses are there to warn the guests that they, too, can lose their heads if they don't show the proper respect.
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I'm just trying to figure out what "baked eggs with cheese" is suppose to be.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I'm just trying to figure out what "baked eggs with cheese" is suppose to be. Really? I don't think they could get any more descriptive with the name unless it was "2 grade A eggs baked at 425°F for 565 seconds with 2.3 oz of 5 year old cheddar".
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Babushka is wife, 1 pound of cinnamon on a crepe, seafood quiche is a dessert... I cannot wait for the next set of blunders. I bet Fugu is gonna be a recipe that anyone can cook.
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Pharohman777 posted:Babushka is wife, 1 pound of cinnamon on a crepe, seafood quiche is a dessert... Seriously, it’s like dream logic.
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Does this game simulate the need for prep at all? I mean, some parts of a recipe can (should, and must) be done hours in advance without lowering the quality of the dish at all. Like making crusts for pizza in the morning. Or not waiting until someone goes and orders chocolate cake to actually make the chocolate cake.
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Barely. But yeah, a lot of the weird recipe names and the glaring errors definitely fits with a small-time Chinese company doing the translation on the cheap, we're lucky the dialogue is mostly coherent.
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McGavin posted:Really? I don't think they could get any more descriptive with the name unless it was "2 grade A eggs baked at 425°F for 565 seconds with 2.3 oz of 5 year old cheddar". What I'm not understanding is why you would bake eggs. Usually you cook eggs in a pan or boil them in water. I just don't know what reason there is to put them in the oven.
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Mraagvpeine posted:What I'm not understanding is why you would bake eggs. Usually you cook eggs in a pan or boil them in water. I just don't know what reason there is to put them in the oven. sounds like a frittata, which you usually finish by baking I don't think I would describe a frittata as "baked eggs with cheese" but this game is clearly taking some liberty with its recipes
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La Cosa Nostra - making you an order that you can't refuse.
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Robindaybird posted:Barely. Except I am pretty sure Enlight Software is an American Company.
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Maybe a goon can make close approximations of these 'dishes' for the thread. A pound of cinnamon with some crepe in it, and looking forward to a delicious seafood quiche dessert.
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Wouldn't that just be very expensive, poisonous and taste of vomit coming up the throat?
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Pharohman777 posted:Maybe a goon can make close approximations of these 'dishes' for the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3XvM79_38
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Pharohman777 posted:Maybe a goon can make close approximations of these 'dishes' for the thread. The pound of cinnamon is a bit much, but the mixed pork casserole might actually be edible.
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Enchanted Hat posted:
Artichoke, crèpes and langoustines; that's a breton dish. I wonder how many peoples have eaten langoustines itt. I love them, so delicious!
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Iunnrais posted:Does this game simulate the need for prep at all? I mean, some parts of a recipe can (should, and must) be done hours in advance without lowering the quality of the dish at all. Like making crusts for pizza in the morning. Or not waiting until someone goes and orders chocolate cake to actually make the chocolate cake. I mean, the game doesn't make you personally manage the actual prep work, but since most of the recipes are cooked by swishing around a frying pan for 6-8 seconds, I'm assuming Armand uses prepped ingredients. cugel posted:Artichoke, crèpes and langoustines; that's a breton dish. I wonder how many peoples have eaten langoustines itt. I love them, so delicious! Is that gigantic prawn in the picture a langoustine? Do they actually grow that big? Going by the picture and the recipe, it looks great!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops_norvegicus That's the one who is fished in britanny. They can get pretty big to the point their claws can't be broken easily by hand when eating them. The best size is medium. They must be cooked alive like all crustacean so having good, fresh langoustines is hard when you don't live near the fishing ports.
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cugel posted:Artichoke, crèpes and langoustines; that's a breton dish. I wonder how many peoples have eaten langoustines itt. I love them, so delicious! I got to have some at Victoria & Albert's last year. They're like mini lobsters!
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Enchanted Hat posted:The gondola is totally there, I was just an idiot and forgot to get a screenshot. As you can see below, it has pride of place, and is the first thing everyone sees walking into our restaurant (for those who get to sit at the special table, the gondola might also be one of the LAST things they'll ever see!) Have we named the gondola yet? And if not, can we call it the Damocles?
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let's name it the goondola
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ultrafilter posted:The pound of cinnamon is a bit much, but the mixed pork casserole might actually be edible. Going with the third party china translation theory, these seem to be the closest approximation to the Mixed Casserole of Pork that I could find online. https://www.womanandhome.com/recipes/normandy-pork-casserole-recipe/ https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/creamy-slow-cooked-pork-casserole/ For the record both have like 1/4 the amount of cooking oil as Armands Dish Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jul 17, 2018 |
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Can we get the recipe card for the 'gourmet' pizza and the other one? I want to see what toppings the game puts on them and whether or not pineapple and chocolate are amongst them.
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Can you show all the recipe cards you get?
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Aesculus posted:Can we get the recipe card for the 'gourmet' pizza and the other one? I want to see what toppings the game puts on them and whether or not pineapple and chocolate are amongst them. Mraagvpeine posted:Can you show all the recipe cards you get? Yeah, sure. I normally do that, but we just got a whole bunch of new recipes at once in the last two updates, and I was worried about them already being pretty long. I'll grab screenshots of the recipe cards for all the new recipes we got with La Cosa Nostra and the two new chefs when I have a moment.
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You could use the test poster to keep a list of all the recipe cards linked from the OP.
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ultrafilter posted:You could use the test poster to keep a list of all the recipe cards linked from the OP. That's a good idea, thanks! I'll post the list along with the next update later today.
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Episode 7: No guilt in victory![]() ![]() We get called over to Don Corleone's mansion, and it's pretty amazing. I don't even know what to comment on first. The blond hitman? The extremely dilapidated walls in an opulent mansion? The world map carpet? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Armand's such a baby, I'm sure we'll be fine. The food critic is called the Galloping Gourmet, right? ![]() He's going to love our restaurant! ![]() I was very worried when Don Corleone said he wanted us to reach a three and a half star rating on our restaurants, though – at the end of the last month, Treize à Table was at two stars. Luckily, I guess he was just joking, because that's not actually on the list of mission objectives. In fact, neither is Gordini, just the cooking contest and for some reason the food rating. ![]() I updated La Cosa Nostra's menu with the dishes requested in the thread. I haven't yet shown off the recipes we got when we took over La Cosa Nostra and when we hired Thierry and Pierre. I'll post an overview of our menus and recipes in the thread along with this update, but I wanted to show this one off right away since it's about to become relevant. This is the best recipe in our entire empire. It's got a bafflingly high quality rating of 71%, even higher than Uncle Michel's old mère's favourite mixed casserole of pork with all his secret ingredients. It also cooks super fast and costs nearly nothing to make. The default price is kind of low, but with quality like that you can just jack the price way up. The cappuccino sundae is, to put it mildly, a good recipe, and we'll be needing it for the Italian cooking competition. This dessert is going on La Cosa Nostra's menu and will remain there until the day the feds bust down the doors and confiscate it. ![]() We can't actually go to the Italian cooking contest yet – the game won't let you until after you deal with Gordini. However, since the game is threatening to start giving me goals relating to our restaurants' star ratings, I decide to invest in some staff training. The max we can possibly invest is $50,000 per restaurant, which should only make a dent in our obscene profits. ![]() As for Signor Gordini… I know where we can seat a man of his calibre. ![]() We get a visit from Don Corleone. Not pictured: giant horse also dining at the Don's table. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() YOU HAVE THE SPAGHETTI MARINARA RECIPE. ![]() When Don Corleone suggests moving one of my Italian chefs, I think the game is assuming that I've assigned both Thierry and Pierre to Treize à Table. Restaurant Empire, I can't even fit enough tables to fully occupy two chefs at Treize à Table, why would I put three chefs there and leave only one at La Cosa Nostra? Anyway, we got the Don's secret spaghetti! Is it any good? ![]() Meh. At this point, we have plenty of incredibly good main courses, so 57% is just not very impressive. I'll put it on the menu, but I was just expecting some kind of crazy powerful trump card recipe, you know? A mediocre recipe. Also, three tablespoons of garlic is a lot for 60 grams of spaghetti, don't order this if you invite your date to "y'know, that shady horse restaurant". ![]() The game tells me one of our guests wants my attention. I ready my chequebook. ![]() ![]() Oh, drat it, the receptionist screwed up and seated Gordini at the wrong table! Now he can't have an unfortunate accident with his salad fork thirty-seven times. ![]() ![]() ![]() The animations in this game are limited, but I like to think that the game designers wanted Gordini to cackle maniacally here while pinching his fetching steampunk monocle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wasn't Gordini – sorry, "the Galloping Gourmet" - supposed to be famous for his integrity? Does he normally introduce himself to the restaurant owner in advance of his visits as a food critic, schedule a date for his review and also help the restaurant out with a few recipes? I'm thinking Don Corleone might have managed to pay him a friendly visit before he got here. Anyway, let's head over to the Gordinis' ![]() ![]() ![]() His parents were REALLY lazy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() YOU EXCHANGE THE MACARONI IN MEAT SAUCE WITH THE PEA SOUP WITH CRÈME FRAÎCHE. ![]() ![]() ARMAND HAS THE NAMES OF TWO CHEFS, MARCO AND STEFANO. ![]() ![]() ARMAND NOW KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE TORO SPACCATO, WHERE MARCO AND STEFANO WORKS. ![]() ![]() Is it just me, or does Armand's "it was nice knowing you two" seem like a threat? Anyway, we got a new recipe! Let's take a look at it. ![]() Now this is much better. The key thing about this recipe is that it's an appetizer, and we have a dearth of really good appetizers. At 68% quality, this is by far our best. The only downside that I can see is that it's Italian only, so it won't help us in any French competitions. A good recipe. The game won't let us enter the Italian cooking competition before we go talk to those two chefs that the Gordinis mentioned, so let's go to the Toro Spaccato. ![]() I don't particularly need new chefs right now, but like, I can't NOT hire that moustache. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() YOU HAVE JUST HIRED STEFANO AND MARCO! THEY WILL COMMENCE WORK IN LA COSA NOSTRA. HOWEVER, YOU HAD TO PAY THE TORO SPACCATO RESTAURANT $25,000 IN CONTRACTUAL LIABILITIES… ![]() We got two new chefs! We don't particularly need new chefs – Treize à Table is full, and we're already seating all the guests we can attract at La Cosa Nostra – so getting more chefs isn't that useful. In fact, it's hurting us because it will spread the cooking XP between four chefs at La Cosa Nostra instead of between two. Once we get another restaurant we'll reassign them. We also get half a dozen new recipes (though strangely no appetizers). The only notable one is this fisherman's soup, which has an amazing rating for a soup. We could have used that last mission, drat it! ![]() The game warns me that Secondo is coming again, and that he'll actually review the restaurant this time. At this point, I'm not that worried about the review, as I'm pretty sure he doesn't have the guts to write something negative. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SECONDO TELLS YOU THAT THE ITALIAN LOCAL COMPETITION IS ON! Yeah. That's what I THOUGHT. Now all that's left to do is win the Italian cooking competition. It shouldn't be a problem, but since we have six months to meet the objectives, I let the game run a couple of months to let Armand build his cooking skills a bit more at Treize à Table. Deliberately delaying ending missions like this isn't really necessary, but it makes the later missions a lot easier. ![]() All right, now we'll… drat it, why are all the cooking stadia placed up against the map edge so I can't get good screenshots of them? Is there something wrong with the texture that they're trying to hide? ![]() One chef, one round, one Italian recipe of any kind. Piece of cake. ![]() This time, Mario Corleone will be entering with his guilt free cappuccino sundae, which he has perfected. Something something dessert you can't refuse. ![]() Mario's first opponent, Signor Leonardo Varesi, who is entering the contest with his lobster bisque. You know, I think this is the only place I've seen digital stage pyrotechnics outside of Eurovision. You'd think they'd be able to do real pyrotechnics if they already have a gas line for those stoves. ![]() Mario's second opponent, Signor Giuseppe Caroni, who will be preparing a stuffed spider crab – a very good recipe that I happened to buy off a customer earlier in this mission. It's not as good as the cappuccino sundae, though. ![]() Mario is a hard man, but with a sweet tooth. The sundae's inherent 71% recipe quality plus Mario's cooking skill of 100% results in a dish quality of 80%. Those other guys don't stand a chance. ![]() COOK poo poo GET HIT ![]() In case you were curious: yes, Mario does the same awesome victory dance. Except ANGRIER. ![]() We win some potato soup! We already got a really good soup earlier this mission, but that was an Italian soup – this one can be served in French and American restaurants, so this is really helpful. A good recipe. As usual, we can enter the cooking competition again to win some more money and another recipe. They were lazy this time and just made it the exact same contest: one round, one Italian recipe. It's even against the exact same competitors, Leonardo and Giuseppe. I guess those guys weren't tired yet of GETTING WRECKED. ![]() Mario is a BEAST. ![]() We win the chocolate walnut pie. They dare to offer Mario Corleone this inferior dessert? To make matters worse, it looks like it's some kind of low-fat pie, since they've replaced nearly all the butter with water. 1/8th of an ounce of butter? That's just insulting. ![]() While making a note of the recipe we won, I accidentally panned the camera over the Colosseum. Apparently they fully repaired it in the Restaurant Empire timeline? ![]() Victory! We humiliated the Italian cooking competition and survived the malicious restaurant critic. La Cosa Nostra is getting a bit crowded with four chefs in there, but that's fine, because we'll be getting a new restaurant next mission. This is where the game starts to accelerate and you rapidly start getting new restaurants and building up your restaurant empire. ![]() habeasdorkus made an intriguing proposal in the thread, suggesting that we should close La Cosa Nostra for lunch and only open for the dinner service. This would mean earning a lot less money (we make about half our profit at lunchtime), but it would doubtless make the restaurant better for various kinds of skulduggery. Should our restaurant remain a restaurant of the light… ![]() …or a house of darkness? Thread poll: should we close La Cosa Nostra for lunch and become a house of the night? - YES, assassination during a lunch date is so gauche. - NO, the Don is all about the money, and so are we.
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Enchanted Hat posted:
It even comes with legend what is what on the map! Classy Also: - YES, assassination during a lunch date is so gauche.
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Here is the promised list of all our recipes with their recipe cards: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=151604 Also I realised while making this that the stuffed spider crab is a French/American dish and shouldn't even have been allowed in the Italian cooking competition THIS CONTEST IS A SHAM
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YES, since La Cosa Nostra's decor and atmosphere look so much better at night where you can only see under candlelight and thus can't make out the bloodstains on the carpet or the gun barrel pointing at you.
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Actually those two pictures are taken at the same time, I can set the light level to whatever I want ![]()
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No What sort of mobster delays at dealing death by daylight? I like to think everyone, including the Don, is extremely intimidated by Armand's decor choices.
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- YES, assassination during a lunch date is so gauche. The decor is better in dim light anyway. Is it randomized where the NPCs sit at the tables? If so, it would probably taken way too many tries, but I would have loved to see that reviewer in the... VIP seat.
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Yes. Leave the gun, take the guilt free Cappuccino sundaes.
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No - if we cut on the Don's profits we might end up getting the VIP seat in our own restaurant.
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Yes We got stuff to do at lunch
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 16:55 |
Dinner only Didn’t Armand come from cooking school? How does he not know the most famous restaurant magazine and critic in the world?
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