Who Needs Dishes When You Can Serve Soup in a Stiletto

A fringe of restaurateurs are plating food on things that aren’t plates—shovels, shoes, rocks; ‘it looked like landscaping’

When Amanda Kennedy spent a night out in July at the Sugar Club restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, the waiter brought out a delicate oyster and fish-egg amuse-bouche.

Served on a bowl of rocks.

“It looked like landscaping,” says Ms. Kennedy, a comedian in the city. When she asked why it wasn’t on a plate, the waiter said “I dunno.”

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