A how much do you spend on food thread has risen from the dead. Most members telling how little they spend per meal.
How about the opposite.
What’s the biggest splurge you have spent eating?
Most expensive bottle of booze?
Just for fun. Here is a link to the Nobu menu. Nobu Menu
Things to note:
Wagyu beef $38 per ounce.
“OMAKASE - CHEF’S CHOICE
Experience the essence of Chef Matsuhisa’s cuisine with this multi-course tasting menu
$225 per person”
This takes like 45m to an hour.
Or some of the NY steak houses where there is no price listed.
If you have to ask, you shouldn’t be eating there.
There is a local steak house “Cowboy Prime” that lists a 24K gold covered steak for $300.
Much less The French Laundry - No set menu - No prices.
Never been there, was on my bucket list till health reasons have stopped my traveling.
All the Best,
Jeff
One Christmas, I ate at Lulu California Bistro in Palm Springs.
I had a 4-course meal including filet mignon.
A friend of the family invited me, and she paid for the meal.
According to an internet search I just did, my meal was $54.99, but I thought it was more.
The food was really good, but it wasn’t worth the extravagant price.
I never told the friend that I thought it was overpriced because that would have been rude.
I think that’s one of the most expensive meals that I’ve ever had.
Unno. All that fancy foofoo stuff would be lost on me. And fancy names for pea soup or vanilla pudding doesn’t make it worth 80x the price of what I could get it for at a local diner.
I appreciate a good meal for what it is, but again, just because it’s served up by snooty waiters or have menus-without-prices doesn’t mean it’s going to be better.
My mom won a trip to Hawaii at her employer’s Christmas party.
My older sister, my mom, and I went there the following May, and some of the events and food were paid for.
We had a large expensive meal at the Polynesian Cultural Center.
I have no idea what the food retailed for, but it was free for us.
That food was extremely delicious.
RC
Captain Obvious here.
When did you change your nom de plume to just raccoon?
I’ve been looking at it and my brain has been filling in the “City” until today.
All the Best,
Jeff
Went to Fogo De Chao with a dozen people once some ~20 years ago when it was merely ~$50 per person. Waitstaff opted to combine everything into a single check. After some deliberations and increasingly-tense missives from the staff to close the tab I opted to cover the entire bill myself rather than wait for the finger-and-toe mathematics to shake out. My eventual collection from everyone was probably faster than the process was going to take.
Uh… let’s see.
My username changed on March 5th, 2023.
( I figured it’s easier to type @raccoon than @raccoon_city )
I also didn’t like the underscore.
The old BLF allowed spaces in usernames, but the new BLF doesn’t.
The most expensive meal I’ve had was about 15-20 years ago at Charley’s Steak House in Tampa, FL.
With 1 drink and dessert it was just under $100 a person before the Tip.
The “18oz Fabulous Filet” Mignon was fantastic!
Edit: I just checked the Menu and the prices are more than double what I paid way back when.
I’ve had a number of steak dinners in San Francisco where I live where the prices are over $250 per person. So with our family of 5 that’s $1,250 for all of us.
We also go to this place fairly often where the out-of-door prices are more than $200/per person.
I’ve spent more per person at other places but that includes wine, which can be more than the dinner
Not a food, but I once ordered 4cl of 40year old Highland park whisky. It was 120€. I didn’t know it was that expensive nor did the young girl that sold it for me.
I guess something at Red Lobster for like $25-$30. Years go by where I don’t eat at restaurants. It’s just so much cheaper and healthier to eat at home (plus, where I live now, the closest one is at least 40 minutes away, so you have to factor in gas money and time spent traveling too.)
