Twelve courses are not a number for us. They are a rhythm. A long menu is often misunderstood. Many people think first of quantity, luxury, formality, or an evening designed to impress. For us, a 12-course menu means something else. It is not a demonstration of excess. It is a way of building an idea slowly. At Criss Studio, we do not cook twelve courses because twelve is a particularly grand or representative number. We cook them because some stories need space. Because a si