Your expensive Dinner..?

[MobCounty]

I took my lady and her friend out to the Pineapple Grill in maui and dropped 5 bills for two bottles of wine, two apps, three mains and dessert.

For what we got, I thought I still got off easy compared to the prices Ronny talks bout in NY. What do you guys spend out there on a really good evening out?

MC

[Fat_Sunny]

F_S Had A Business Contact From England Come Over About 10 Years Ago, So Fat And His Lady Friend (At The Time) Took Him And His Wife To the "Box Tree" In NY. Four People Including Tip Was $1,400!!!!! Thank God It Was Business. F_S Was Panicked When The Bill Arrived, As He Was Afraid His Credit Card Would Be Declined And He Would Be Humiliated, But It Went Through.

The Worst Part Is That We Drank So Much And The Food Was So Disgustingly Rich That F_S Had To Pull Over On The Drive Home To Throw Up. Seriously. Only Time In The Past 10 Years Fat's Thrown Up. What A Waste Of Money!

[BoondockSaint]

My father used to work in health insurance. One time him and his boss were negotiating with a company to secure the contract. My father and his boss took three guys from the other company out to dinner to seal the deal. They went to some Italian restaurant that served shots of homemade grappa for $100. Well, they got to celebrating a bit and the check came to almost $3500. But to secure a million dollar contract it's peanuts.

[EliSnow]

I took my lady and her friend out to the Pineapple Grill in maui and dropped 5 bills for two bottles of wine, two apps, three mains and dessert.

For what we got, I thought I still got off easy compared to the prices Ronny talks bout in NY. What do you guys spend out there on a really good evening out?

MC

That's still pretty pricy. The most I ever dropped on one dinner for my wife and I was around $350-400 at Gotham. Great meal, but lots of cash.

Usually, we were in the $100 to $200 range when we went to a great place for the two of us.

[MobCounty]

That's still pretty pricy. The most I ever dropped on one dinner for my wife and I was around $350-400 at Gotham. Great meal, but lots of cash.

Usually, we were in the $100 to $200 range when we went to a great place for the two of us.

Damn, thats only two peeps though. What were the main courses?

We are usually in the 100 range around here at home. That would be two mains, a bottle of wine, a couple of coctails and espresso.

Our most expensive mains [locally] are around $48. I know of a spot with a 125 chefs meal, but that still seems pretty cheap compared to NY.

[MobCounty]

My father used to work in health insurance. One time him and his boss were negotiating with a company to secure the contract. My father and his boss took three guys from the other company out to dinner to seal the deal. They went to some Italian restaurant that served shots of homemade grappa for $100. Well, they got to celebrating a bit and the check came to almost $3500. But to secure a million dollar contract it's peanuts.

Yeah the Japanese are famous for that move. If you are doing buisiness in Japan don't take people out to dinner unless you know what your doing =).

[EliSnow]

Damn, thats only two peeps though. What were the main courses?



I think we had a steak and salmon (both in the $30-40 range). Add in some apps and desert cocktails and a great bottle of wine, you get there pretty quick.

[Death Metal Moe]

I love to eat at new places and try new foods. I try to keep an open mind about all foods and experience all I can.

But when it comes down to a "favorite place" I always go back to The Town Tavern in West Milford, NJ. While there I enjoy the king cut prime rib. It's like 25 oz. of the finest prime rib I have ever eaten.

That runs you about $30. Really not bad compared to a lot of places. I don't drink alchohol most times when I go out so with my soft drink I come in under $50 for my meal with dessert.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

For Me its Peter Lugers

After Apps Drinks and alot of Steak, it costs me at least $200pp

:king:

[JPMNICK]

My dinners are usually cheap since me or my chick do not drink alchohol when we eat dinner. It is the wine that puts most of the dinners over the edge.

[crb1]

I think we had a steak and salmon (both in the $30-40 range). Add in some apps and desert cocktails and a great bottle of wine, you get there pretty quick.

Nothing jacks up a dinner bill like wine. I went to "business" dinners with people at my old company, where they'd order $150-$200 bottles of wine and get enough for the entire party to drink all night (which was anywhere from 8-12 people).

Our favorite restaurant is usually in the $100 range with tip. It's BYOB, which saves us a ton of $$ on wine.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

My dinners are usually cheap since me or my chick do not drink alchohol when we eat dinner. It is the wine that puts most of the dinners over the edge.


agreed, Only with friends, i end up drinking

Nick Have you Been to Lugers Recently, they opened a Cigar Bar right next store

:king:

[JPMNICK]

agreed, Only with friends, i end up drinking

Nick Have you Been to Lugers Recently, they opened a Cigar Bar right next store

:king:

Wow I had no idea! that is awesome. I should go check that out.

if you stay away from wine, even at some of the most expensive places, you will get out of there for under 200, 250 tops.

[Hottub]

Ooops.

[sailor]

yeah, must be the wine. i've gone to luger's and eaten myself half to death and paid under 200 for two people. and that was with tipping around 30%.

[MellySmelly]

Gioco in Chicago. I know that the bill was over $800 for four of us. Luckily, I wasn't buying. I think a lot of the cost was the wine. Fantastic Italian restaurant!


http://www.gioco-chicago.com/

[underdog]

If there's 4 of us and we get the bill and its under $500, we're usually happy.

Usually with my wife and I, we hit about $150 - $200 with no wine.

[MobCounty]

Nothing jacks up a dinner bill like wine. I went to "business" dinners with people at my old company, where they'd order $150-$200 bottles of wine and get enough for the entire party to drink all night (which was anywhere from 8-12 people).

Our favorite restaurant is usually in the $100 range with tip. It's BYOB, which saves us a ton of $$ on wine.

I'll say.. On our the mains were 30, the bottles were 175. There is nothing worse than paying 200 bucks for a bottle of wine that you know only costs 75..

[reeshy]

If you have ever seen the movie "Serpico", I took a prisoner for breakfast......cost me over a buck!!!!!

[feralBoy]

My most expensive meal was when I went to Aureole in NYC with my ex. For two tasting menus (like 6 courses), with wine (one glass for each course), it came to $320, plus tax and tip. So, like $425 for the whole thing. Pretty crazy, but it was cool. The worst part is looking at the bill and seeing "tip" and "captains tip."

[topless_mike]

wtf do you people eat????


on our honeymoon in vegas, 2 mains, 2 apps, wine, etc at a high level restaurant only cost us 125 before tip.

then again, now that i think about it, it was 3 weeks after the towers dropped.
hawaii was so empty that hotels / restaurants were giving stuff away.

[Chigworthy]

We took our good friends (a couple) out to a going away dinner this weekend and dropped around 300 hundred for the four of us.

We live about an hour from the French Laundry, so we are always talking about getting off our asses and heading up there, for which I will gladly not even worry about prices. It's $240 per person for the tasting menu, and I think it includes wine pairings if you throw 'em another $80 per person. My wife and I can detach ourselves from our financial worries fairly easily. As Burroughs said, "Who wants to be the richest man in some cemetary?"

P.S. Any of you East Coasters been to Keller's "Per Se" yet, and how was it?

[feralBoy]

P.S. Any of you East Coasters been to Keller's "Per Se" yet, and how was it?

Never been there, but everytime i'm at the time warner building I go to the top to take a look at it. I hear it takes like 2 months to get a reservation. Pretty crazy. Right across from per se, is Masa. I think the prix fix is like $300 per person. That's without a drink. But that restaurant only has like 5 tables or something crazy.

[MobCounty]

The worst part is looking at the bill and seeing "tip" and "captains tip."

WTF is a captains tip!?.. I'm only giving one tip. They can figure out the rest.

[Chigworthy]

I hear it takes like 2 months to get a reservation.

The French Laundry is the same way. I seem to remember it being a year wait in the past, but I could be completely off my shit about that.

[Wallower]

The most expensive meal I've ever eaten was at the Gordon Ramsay in Tokyo. Dinner for two was about $240. We didn't have any alcohol and the Japanese don't have a tipping custom so that's all for the food. I had been wanting to try Ramsay's food for a long time and it was well worth it. We went back for lunch the next time we were in Tokyo and it was about $140 that time. The killer was the bottled water they kept bringing at $12 a pop.

[JPMNICK]

The French Laundry is the same way. I seem to remember it being a year wait in the past, but I could be completely off my shit about that.

I would wait a year to eat at French Laundry. I never stop hearing great things about that place. It is the best in the country right now.

[Bulldogcakes]

That's still pretty pricy. The most I ever dropped on one dinner for my wife and I was around $350-400 at Gotham. Great meal, but lots of cash.

Usually, we were in the $100 to $200 range when we went to a great place for the two of us.

Yeah, you can get a great meal in a really nice place for around $100-ish each. Bottles of wine can pad the bill alot, though so I order it by the glass. When you're spending $250 and up per person, it should either be business or a very special occasion.

I don't feel comfortable in the really fancy Manhattan places anyway, or many French restaurants. Too formal, too stuffy. I'd rather have a nice meal in a good local restaurant 99% of the time. Plus, many chefs are doing some very cool, innovative things opening their own joints in places like Brooklyn (Smith St/Williamsburgh) with zero attitude.