After a long hiatus from fancy meals, I completely lost self-control when I saw the $99 deal for 10 courses at iNG on Travelzoo, even though I wasn't all that interested in this restaurant. iNG, which stands for "Imagining new gastronomy", is the cheaper sister restaurant of Moto, owned by chef Homaro Cantu. Just as the famous Grant Achatz, Cantu is part of the molecular gastronomy camp, so I knew there would be lots of gadgets and liquid nitrogen involved. My lack of interest in the restaurant stems from the most recent season of Top Chef, where two of the contestants were chefs from Moto. They didn't perform very well throughout, the most common critique from the judges being that they focus too much on looks and not so much on flavor. Naturally, they were eliminated quite early in the season. So I had pretty low expectations for this meal.
