Don't forget, a hipster meal cannot be a hipster meal if it served on a plate. A bread board is only a marginally-hipster food support device. It may have been fully hipster in the past, but the bread board is now at the edge of hipster-dom. We recently ate at a restaurant where a korma was served in an enamel dish from the 1940s (so far so practical-but-kitsch), yet the rice was piled on a sheet of greaseproof paper, on a tray. The problem was, we didn't even know we were in a hipster restaurant. There was no warning, and frankly, no justification. After a few moments of 'chase the grains', Ms Fruitcake requested a plate, and harmony was restored.
Unlike the catastrophe supporting this starter (and I truly hope this
is a starter). There can be nothing harmonious about bread on roofing material. Nothing.
You might be wondering, how much worse this can get? Sadly, it gets far worse, as documented at
twitter.com/wewantplates.
Potatoes served in plant pots and desserts served on flip flops.