Via Veneto

At Via Veneto, the oldest Michelin-starred restaurant in Barcelona, in Sant Gervasi-Galvany, the signature move is an orange peeled tableside—now the house's iconic dessert. A waiter works a very sharp knife in front of the diner, separates the segments and squeezes the remaining juice over them: a dining-room spectacle inside a haute-cuisine classic.

Order that orange: two pieces kept cold for €20. @topfoodbcn calls the technique very precise, and the segments are arranged with a gap in the middle for the red berries. It's the old-school flourish that still survives in fine dining, though the price is the elephant in the room: two oranges, twenty euros.

@topfoodbcn's take is that it's an iconic, theatrical experience but pricey at €20 for two oranges. In the comments, the debate is exactly that price, with repeated jokes about buying a whole sack for the same money. The dessert calls the shots; so does the bill.