The most you've paid for a meal
-
- Posts: 15580
- Joined: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: somewhere, over the rainbow, and Ergoville, USA
The most you've paid for a meal
Weekenders' comment about a 284-GBP meal made me wonder. What's the most you have paid for a meal?
The most for me occurred the other day. I was out with some friends who are more well-to-do than I am, and they took me to a restaurant in Lexington, where the chef and most of the staff were from Italy. I ordered something with goat cheese and vegetables, plus bread, and my total came to $63.00.
The prices were not on the menu, and when I asked I was told "if you have to ask you can't afford it," so I ordered one of the only vegetarian things I could find, and didn't know it was going to be so expensive.
Luckily I had just received my housing check and I could pay for it. One woman's total was over $100, but she drank wine there which I think was really expensive.
The most for me occurred the other day. I was out with some friends who are more well-to-do than I am, and they took me to a restaurant in Lexington, where the chef and most of the staff were from Italy. I ordered something with goat cheese and vegetables, plus bread, and my total came to $63.00.
The prices were not on the menu, and when I asked I was told "if you have to ask you can't afford it," so I ordered one of the only vegetarian things I could find, and didn't know it was going to be so expensive.
Luckily I had just received my housing check and I could pay for it. One woman's total was over $100, but she drank wine there which I think was really expensive.
- BillChin
- Posts: 1700
- Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:24 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Light on the ocean
- Contact:
The most expensive meal I paid for was at Windows on the World, at the top of the World Trade Center in New York City. Obviously this was some time ago, but even some time before the tragic events. I think it was about $130 including the tip for two people. Again, many moons ago. Today's top New York restaurant prices are about double to triple that.
- emmline
- Posts: 11859
- Joined: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:33 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Annapolis, MD
- Contact:
Yeah, that $63 would be dear on a tight budget.
I'm trying to think of a time that my per person cost has been more than that. Very occasionally two of us go out and end up paying around $120 (including tip and wine,) and when we do this we feel quite profligate.
So that doesn't happen much. I think when I've spent more for a meal it has really been for a fund-raising event where the ticket price was really going to pay for the cause, not the meal. The kid's school, for example, or the Community Center.
My budgetary problem isn't so much that we make luxurious choices so much as that meal-planning throws me into a panic, and we eat out often as my means of coping and that, I realize, in itself is a luxury.
I'm trying to think of a time that my per person cost has been more than that. Very occasionally two of us go out and end up paying around $120 (including tip and wine,) and when we do this we feel quite profligate.
So that doesn't happen much. I think when I've spent more for a meal it has really been for a fund-raising event where the ticket price was really going to pay for the cause, not the meal. The kid's school, for example, or the Community Center.
My budgetary problem isn't so much that we make luxurious choices so much as that meal-planning throws me into a panic, and we eat out often as my means of coping and that, I realize, in itself is a luxury.
-
- Posts: 15580
- Joined: Sun Feb 09, 2003 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: somewhere, over the rainbow, and Ergoville, USA
Yeah, it is a luxury and I should be more thankful, too. One time when I was homeless I used to steal food from delis in grocery stores. You'd go ask for tater wedges, macaroni salad, and a fork, or something, and just walk through the store naturally and eat it as though you've already paid for it. So I know I got free food those days but I know somebody had to pay for it.emmline wrote:My budgetary problem isn't so much that we make luxurious choices so much as that meal-planning throws me into a panic, and we eat out often as my means of coping and that, I realize, in itself is a luxury.
- Flyingcursor
- Posts: 6573
- Joined: Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: This is the first sentence. This is the second of the recommended sentences intended to thwart spam its. This is a third, bonus sentence!
- Location: Portsmouth, VA1, "the States"
jkwest wrote:Gibson's in Chicago...
5 people...
steak, alcohol, lobster, alcohol, did I say alcohol?
grand total...$875..after $100 tip...thank God for business credit cards...
Holy gravy Batman!!!! I thought the $30.00 prime rib I put on the expense card in New Orleans was too much.
I try hard not to spend too much going out to eat. It sounds like Cranberry got sucked into a situation he wouldn't have chosen on his own.
I'm no longer trying a new posting paradigm
- FJohnSharp
- Posts: 3050
- Joined: Thu May 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
- Location: Kent, Ohio
- missy
- Posts: 5833
- Joined: Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:46 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Cincinnati, OH
- Contact:
about 8 years ago - K.Paul's in New Orleans.
$75, including a glass of wine and dessert.
And worth every penny.
It was on an expense account - so we all ate "cheap" the rest of the week and this was our one big splurge.
But we aren't big spenders for meals - we'll go "nice", but we do not go "gormet". We'll have a glass of wine or beer (and I'll have a magaurita if I know it's a good one), but usually don't go for dessert.
$75, including a glass of wine and dessert.
And worth every penny.
It was on an expense account - so we all ate "cheap" the rest of the week and this was our one big splurge.
But we aren't big spenders for meals - we'll go "nice", but we do not go "gormet". We'll have a glass of wine or beer (and I'll have a magaurita if I know it's a good one), but usually don't go for dessert.
- Congratulations
- Posts: 4215
- Joined: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:05 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Charleston, SC
- Contact:
I live in Charleston, SC, apparently a city with one of the highest ratios of fine dining restaurants to people in the country. I could very easily spend a thousand or more for a meal for two people, at any number of restaurants. Being a student with limited means (and wind), I haven't exploited the opportunity.
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
- FJohnSharp
- Posts: 3050
- Joined: Thu May 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
- Location: Kent, Ohio
- chas
- Posts: 7707
- Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 10
- Location: East Coast US
I took my wife to the Inn at Little Washington for our wedding night. The flat price was $144 apiece, add a couple of beers and a glass of wine and tip, it was somewhat more than that. Honestly, if I had to choose between that and a $350 flute, I'd choose the flute every time. But it was memorable and worth it.
I recently received an award and took my folks plus brother-in-law out to a really really nice Italian place afterward. The total for five grownups and one kid was about the same as the wedding night. I thought that meal, the waitstaff, etc., were almost as good.
I don't like to go out to eat. It's expensive and most of the time (not the two cited above) I can cook just as well as the restaurant. Plus I really like cooking. I am in a minority in my house; fortunately the majority is not very vocal.
I recently received an award and took my folks plus brother-in-law out to a really really nice Italian place afterward. The total for five grownups and one kid was about the same as the wedding night. I thought that meal, the waitstaff, etc., were almost as good.
I don't like to go out to eat. It's expensive and most of the time (not the two cited above) I can cook just as well as the restaurant. Plus I really like cooking. I am in a minority in my house; fortunately the majority is not very vocal.
Charlie
Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
- I.D.10-t
- Posts: 7660
- Joined: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:57 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA, Earth
Most likely it was not one that we went out to eat.
We once invited four friends over for a seven-course meal.
Salad homemade vinaigrette, bread with cheese and olives and spread, French onion soup made from scratch including the stock, Roast (lamb with Cabernet sauce?) with mixed veggies, mixed berry cobbler with ice cream, several bottles of wine (fortunately those were brought by the guests), and A few other things I cannot remember. It took about two days to make and we spent what we normally would for two weeks of groceries (I think) and about three hours to eat.
Usually if i cannot remember the price it was money well spent. The $400 to fix a coolant leak in a lemon of a car I will remember for quite some time. but on the rare occasion that I can go to a nice restaurant, I am rarely disappointed.
We once invited four friends over for a seven-course meal.
Salad homemade vinaigrette, bread with cheese and olives and spread, French onion soup made from scratch including the stock, Roast (lamb with Cabernet sauce?) with mixed veggies, mixed berry cobbler with ice cream, several bottles of wine (fortunately those were brought by the guests), and A few other things I cannot remember. It took about two days to make and we spent what we normally would for two weeks of groceries (I think) and about three hours to eat.
Usually if i cannot remember the price it was money well spent. The $400 to fix a coolant leak in a lemon of a car I will remember for quite some time. but on the rare occasion that I can go to a nice restaurant, I am rarely disappointed.
"Be not deceived by the sweet words of proverbial philosophy. Sugar of lead is a poison."
Commerce Street
I was drinking with a young lady (good Irish girl, of course) and we wandered into the Commerce Street Grille at the Rennaisance Hotel in Nashville, TN.
Our meal there (2 Jack Daniels Filets + drinks) came to about $125 before the tip. Fortunately we made it worth it by generally making fools of ourselves and having a great time picking on the stuck-up waiter.
Our meal there (2 Jack Daniels Filets + drinks) came to about $125 before the tip. Fortunately we made it worth it by generally making fools of ourselves and having a great time picking on the stuck-up waiter.
- mutepointe
- Posts: 8151
- Joined: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:16 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: kanawha county, west virginia
- Contact: