Margot asks Tyler how this high-end restaurant can stay afloat with so few guests. Tyler informs her it's $1250 per head and Margot snarkily asks if they were going to "eat a Rolex."
Tyler waxing on about the food and the "mouthfeel" of it. Margot stares at him blankly and asks him to never say "mouthfeel" again.
Tyler: Too late. Mouthfeel.
Felicity trying to turn over George's house keys, card and phone he gave her. Later on, the two can be seen pushing the items back and forth between each other with her telling him to take it while he denies her request. Even better, they're muttering to each other in Spanish as they continue the back and forth.
The "Breadless Bread Course" scene in its entirety. The course is a very blatant middle finger to the upper-class clientele, showcasing the wonderful artisan bread that the guests won't be enjoying while serving them a plate of "accompaniments" (i.e. small spots of condiments). The less "cultured" ones (Margot, Soren, Bryce, Dave, and Felicity) immediately realize that they're being messed with, while the self-proclaimed experts insist to themselves that it must be a brilliant piece of artistic expression.
Bryce tells Elsa that, while he, Soren, and Dave found the joke funny, they would actually like some bread. She cheerfully replies "No."
Lillian somehow finds the course to be brilliant, but even more inexplicably claims that one of the individual dabs of emulsion is "broken". Julian responds by sending her a gigantic bowl of said emulsion. And a mixing bowl full during the tea.
The tortillas - almost every guest gets a set with a humiliating moment lasered onto them; Richard's is him cheating on his wife, Tyler's is him taking pictures of the meals earlier despite being told not to, Lilian's are restaurants that she lambasted in her reviews, and George's is a movie that he was in that bombed, and as for the three finance bros? The details of their Cayman Islands offshore accounts and associated criminal activities.
Just before the tortillas are served, there's Julian's surprisingly joyfuland hammy declaration of "Taco Tuesday!"
Soren: Dude, chill, it's a fucking taco. Bryce: A fucking taco that might hold up in court?!
Slowik reveals to the guests his true intentions and asks if there are any questions. Tyler asks if there was bergamot in the tea he was drinking, to which Slowik rolls his eyes but confirms that he's right.
To make it even better, bergamot isn't exactly a subtle flavor - it's what gives Earl Grey tea such a floral, almost cologne-like element. Tyler mentioning it as a flavor note is like eating a cheeseburger and making a big deal about the fact that you can taste the cheese. Talk about Captain Obvious.
When Slowik tries to connect with Margot over their dissatisfaction with working in the service industry, he asks about what Richard hired her to do.
Margot: He told me to agree with everything he said and continue eye contact while he jerked off. Slowik:[awkwardly] Wow. Specific. Margot:[deadpan] Not really. Pretty unoriginal.
Lillian's editor trying to reassure her that they are going to be okay.
Lillian: No, we're gonna die tonight. Ted: Yes, we are. Lillian: Yeah.
During the "Man's Folly" course, as Slowik explains to the male guests he will give them a forty-five-second head start before his chefs chase them down and capture them, Soren immediately makes a break for it.
As the finance bros are running, they start yelling "Bro" at each other as they tell the other to stop getting in their way.
George makes Felicity hold his coat. While whipping his scarf around his neck he says, "Sorry. Come on, you know I'm awful." As she's escorted inside, she tosses his coat onto the ground.
Ted bids Lillian goodbye, but then immediately makes a U-turn, realizing he's coming towards Slowik and runs in the opposite direction.
Tyler remains standing with the rest of the ladies before Slowik points to him and says, "You too". Tyler nonchalantly shrugs and casually strolls away.
The last person to get caught is Ted, who hides in the chicken coop. Upon opening it, one of the cooks offers him a special amuse-bouche as a reward for being the last guest to be caught (complete with its own feature card). When Ted doesn't immediately accept it, the cook silently gestures for him to do so, then closes the coop so Ted can eat in peace.
The reward is a "Passard Egg," also known as a "chaud-froid d'oeuf" (hot-cold egg). It's supposed to be served immediately after being prepared so that the warm yolk and the cold cream topping don't have time to reach the same temperature. The fact that the cook can make it, go straight to the coop, and hand it directly to Ted adds its own bit of dark humor to the scene.
During the chase sequence, the female diners eat their course with Katherine, trying to cajole her into helping them and getting them out of the murder-suicide Slowik has planned... only for Katherine to inform them that the murder-suicide was her idea, one that she's quite proud of. An exhausted Lillian can only pour herself another glass of wine. As Lillian asks if anyone wanted wine, you can hear someone mutter, "fuck it."
Earlier as Lillian tries to butter up Katherine and get her on their side, she compliments the food, saying Katherine could have been very successful. Katherine stoically replies that Lillian's words would have meant something to her a long time ago... and then she quickly turns away as she breaks down into happy tears. The other women all look at Katherine awkwardly and start slowly praising her food as she cries in thanks.
Felicity: It's the emoji for me. Lillian: Umeboshi. It's umeboshi.
After all the men are caught and brought back to the restaurant, Felicity curiously asks George how he did. He tries to insist he did great and was "the only one who got away" before awkwardly admitting that he's a failure.
Felicity admits to George that she had been stealing from him for a while, which George already knows about. In return, George reveals to Felicity that he gave her a negative recommendation to Sony, to which Felicity reveals she knows about because he "cc'd" her on the email.
Tyler's pathetic attempt at cooking is given the title card "Tyler's Bullshit". In addition, Slowik's Deadpan Snarker mocking of him for his poor attempts to cook, which are accompanied by extremely unfitting classical music.
This exchange when Tyler is frantically deciding what ingredients to add:
Slowik: This is your station here. What else? Tyler:[stammering] Um, sh- sh- sh... Slowik: Shit? Would you like some shit?
While watching Tyler clumsily chopping leeks and shallots:
Slowik: This is a new dicing method of which we have been woefully ignorant. What next? Tyler: Uh... butter. Slowik: Butter? Butter. Leeks and shallots sautéed in butter. I bear witness to a revolution in cuisine.
Slowik's reaction when he finally tastes Tyler's dish:
After he whispers something in Tyler's ear so emotionally devastating that Tyler takes off his jacket, walks away, and kills himself, Julian tells the other guests that this wasn't meant to be part of the menu, meaning he was so disgusted by Tyler's actions that he took ten minutes out of his strict time regiment solely to humiliate him as much as possible.
After a tense scene of Margot exploring Slowik's house, we cut back to Slowik serving a cake to Soren, Bryce and Dave, all while he and the rest of the staff sing Bryce "Happy Birthday". When Bryce asks his friend if he told the chefs it was his birthday, Dave replies with a deadpan, "Seemed funny about three hours ago."
Even funnier, it could be interpreted that it wasn't his birthday, and the finance bros told Hawthorn it was as a joke. And given how much they know about the guests, the cooks decided to play along anyway.
As Slowik tells Margot about his horrible life and how he's no better than a slave, he quotes Martin Luther King Jr. Diaz turns to the finance bros (one of them a black man, the other two also men of color) and asks if Slowik, a white man planning to kill them, really quoted MLK. They all quietly confirm.
Though George accepts why he has been targeted, he asks Julian what Felicity has done to deserve being killed, as her career as an assistant shares nothing in common with the other elites in the room. He responds by asking where she went to college ("Brown.") and whether she has any student debt ("No.")
After Julian says the above, Felicity nods as if to say "Yeah, that's fair."
When Julian makes the cheeseburger for Margot at the end, it's shown with painstaking detail. He puts more love into that burger than everything else he made that night.
After taking a bite, Margot comments that her eyes must have been bigger than her stomach, and she'd like the food to go. While it makes sense in context, it's also funny when said by Anya Taylor-Joy, who has famously large eyes.
The gift bags provided to the guests before the final course each contain a booklet of Hawthorn's local suppliers, house-made granola, a copy of the evening's menu, and one of Doug Verrick's fingers.
As Margot is eating her cheeseburger at the end, she takes out the copy of the titular Menu and, after pondering it for a few seconds, uses it as a napkin. In terms of respect shown to the blood, sweat, and tears that went into that menu, this is just a few steps above if she'd used it as toilet paper.
