A friend of a friend of a friend is preparing to open a restaurant here in London focusing on Uyghur cuisine.
They’re still ironing out the details: the menu, the place, the decor, and the service, but I got to experience a “practise run” before they open later in the year.
The food itself was great — packed with flavour and spice! And the hand-pulled noodles were borderline mind blowing.
But my favourite part was watching the operation come together as the staff were still learning their roles and processes. Sure, they missed some of the finer details—like serving large platters without utensils, or forgetting to add final garnishing to dishes—but I could see them identifying their gaps on the fly and working quickly to resolve them.
They were polishing the edges.
It reminded me a lot of how my colleagues and I approach building and testing software products—but it was awesome to see it happening in person, in real time, and all whilst enjoying a delicious meal.
Nothing beats putting “the thing” in front of real people and seeing if it works.