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.

[Augie]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

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.

 

I mentioned the French Laundry earlier, also a Thomas Keller creation. I’ve never been to anything quite like that, but I’m sure you can easily get into that price range with a deal like that. Maybe one day I’ll get to have that kind of experience. 

 

I have a friend who was invited to his neighbors 80th BDay party at a fancy restaurant in Sarasota. There were 20 guests, and the BDay boy’s son was  filthy rich. He not only picked up the tab, but brought two bottles of wine born the same year as dad. Those 80 year old bottles of wine were $10,000 EACH! Everybody got a taste, and I’m told it was “fine”. That is just FU money right there. 

[Saxum]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

I mentioned the French Laundry earlier, also a Thomas Keller creation. I’ve never been to anything quite like that, but I’m sure you can easily get into that price range with a deal like that. Maybe one day I’ll get to have that kind of experience. 

 

I have a friend who was invited to his neighbors 80th BDay party at a fancy restaurant in Sarasota. There were 20 guests, and the BDay boy’s son was  filthy rich. He not only picked up the tab, but brought two bottles of wine born the same year as dad. Those 80 year old bottles of wine were $10,000 EACH! Everybody got a taste, and I’m told it was “fine”. That is just FU money right there. 

 

I have 6 bottles of imported scotch approximately 40 years old which according to market check are $700 a bottle and I will not even open it because I do not want to waste money.  Personally I'd find a better use for the money for my palate is not so discerning.