Slowik has always had trouble staying put. Cut his teeth with Bocuse, a spell in Kyoto, stages with Ferran in Spain just for the fuck of it. Then he opens his own place in New York, Tantalus. I discover him. Then boom, two Michelin stars.

The Menu (2022)
LILLIAN BLOOM
A screenplay character in The Menu (2022).
- lines
- 46
- words
- 647
- scenes
- 13
- dialogue
- 6.3%
- avg words / line
- 14
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 56
Sample dialogue
Yes, well done. Huge arena full of pop-ups. And I think, if I have to eat one more deconstructed avant cassoulet whatever I’m gonna puke. So I leave and stop at a Korean taco truck a block away. And... I flip. It’s like the Platonic ideal of a Korean taco. The Korean taco of your youth.
scene 4 — INT. BOAT - EVENINGThe curtain rises.
scene 17, source scene 18 — INT. DINING ROOM--CONTINUOUSI do like the sense of it being a sort of biome of culinary ideas.
scene 8 — EXT. DRIFTWOOD BEACH - EVENINGI make my own. From apples.
scene 20, source scene 23 — INT. DINING ROOM - EVENINGWe’re going to die tonight, Ted.
scene 31, source scene 36 — EXT. GREAT LAWN - NIGHT
Bookends
No, it’s just - I just realized I’ll never get to write about this.