It's curious because, for many years, macaroni was the dish on children's menus in restaurants. Let me say that, personally, I'm opposed to the concept of a "children's menu," but that's a topic for another article. Back to macaroni. The fact is, we've always had the odd restaurant that made it exceptionally well, like the macaroni at Carles Gaig's El Cardenal. But in general, people didn't go to restaurants to eat macaroni. As we know, everything changes, and this humble yet delicious dish has recently appeared on the menus of every new restaurant that opens. The standard in modern establishments is usually macaroni served on a metal tray where the cheese is melted on the spot with a blowtorch. When you ask which dishes are the most popular, it's often one of the top choices. When people see the word macaroniThey have the urge to order them. Who can blame them? Good macaroni is always appealing, and surely the idea that people go to restaurants to eat what they don't usually cook at home is no longer an unquestionable axiom. Or perhaps we've simply stopped cooking macaroni altogether, who knows?