For me, the exotic aspect comes into play when I can't read the menu and actually know what I'm ordering. Yeah, you can get the gist of whether it's chicken, beef, pork, seafood, vegetarian, etc, but the descriptions seem so fancy. For instance, what the heck is citrus gremolata, braised rapini, madeira-mushroom sauce, veloute sauce, beer and berry demi-glace, cassis-braised cabbage, or terrine? ***For the record, I'm not asking any of you to define these for me, but they are directly from CRT's and Akershus' menus and I'm sure many people have no idea what they are. I'm sure there are many people that have no problem ordering something without having a clue what it is, but there are plenty of others that like to have an idea of the ingredients or flavors for the meal they are spending a great deal of money on so they can have an idea if it's something they would like/ has ingredients they don't like, etc.