Fancy Restaurants.........love em or hate em?

[US Egg]

I don’t see any difference in U.S./Euro restaurants, the touch screen kiosk dining experience is about the same to me.

[Augie]

16 minutes ago, US Egg said:

I don’t see any difference in U.S./Euro restaurants, the touch screen kiosk dining experience is about the same to me.

 

It’s basically the same toys in the Happy Meal.  🤷‍♂️

[Saxum]

1 hour ago, Sweats said:

So, what started this thread is that me and my wife went to another fancy place last night........sat down at 5pm, got out of there around 10:30 pm.

There were 5 courses, so that's about 1 hour per course.

It kills me having to sit anywhere or any place for 5 hours, let alone for food. The food was good (i had the Wagyu steak), but that's a long time to be just sitting there for food.

 

Also, me and my wife will polish off about 2 bottles of wine.......that's $50 a bottle, so $100 of our actual $450 bill last night was for 2 bottles of wine alone.

 

I really don't know how i feel about this.

 

Chinese family meals are sometimes like that with course after course sometimes with little bowls of sherberts to clean taste and waiters who will come to table emptying the main dishes into bowls before they take bowl away.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I’ve been to a handful for Michelin star rated restaurants in my life, and have really enjoyed the experience every time.
 

Most recently, my wife and I visited a college roommate of mine in NYC.  One of the nights we went to Thomas Keller’s Per Se and did the 9 course tasting menu.  Just to make reservations I had to put down an $800 deposit (200/person), and I believe the bill was around $450/person without tip.

 

My buddy and I ended up splitting the bill, and it was north of $1300 per couple but it was well worth it.  Once in a lifetime experience.  No single ingredient was used twice during the meal.  I thought that was kind of cool.