Fine Dining RANT!!
Why is it that now days food isn't any good unless you drop 75-100 bucks a plate?
I over herd some coworkers in the office this morning talking about how their $75 a plate dinner was to dye for. (I hear this about once a week.) what makes a $75 meal, better than $20 meal. it sure as hell isn't the portions.
I have only been out "fine dining" twice and the company payed for both. Honestly i'd rather have gone to a good steak house. I didnt find the food tasted better just because they charged more for it.
Then there is the sushi bar. I hate to break it to them but the (free) salmon out of the river here taste just as good as their $45 salmon roll.
WHY, WHY, WHY, I don't get it.
I over herd some coworkers in the office this morning talking about how their $75 a plate dinner was to dye for. (I hear this about once a week.) what makes a $75 meal, better than $20 meal. it sure as hell isn't the portions.
I have only been out "fine dining" twice and the company payed for both. Honestly i'd rather have gone to a good steak house. I didnt find the food tasted better just because they charged more for it.
Then there is the sushi bar. I hate to break it to them but the (free) salmon out of the river here taste just as good as their $45 salmon roll.
WHY, WHY, WHY, I don't get it.
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$75 a plate? does that include the plate, a bj and a cigar? i am sure it's possible to find that or more expensive places, but it just makes no sense economically. where is that, geographically? 0 -
The wife and I were just talking about this last night. I've had a higher % of bad meals in the over $75 category than in the under. Over $75 is often less a dinning experience than it is a social statement. 0 -
We get great, fantastic meals with awesome service for $10/plate, and we also get it for $40/plate.
I don't spend $75/plate. I'll eat there, but not on my dime.0 -
Realy!!! I can make a HUGE ribeye ,asparagus,mashed potetoes and pan-gravy for my wife and i for under $35.00Prime steak too, from butcher shop.And i know it hasn't been dropped on the floor too...
PLUS, the beer at home is COLDER!! [;)]
JEff0 -
quote:does that include the plate, a bj and a cigar?
No! bj's and cigars are free, the plate is $25 more.[:D]
There are 4 or 5 resturants here in gunnison county, CO. in which you can give them $75 or more and they will give you $15 dollars worth of food and a side of Bu11stuff.0 -
quote:Originally posted by elkoholic
The wife and I were just talking about this last night. I've had a higher % of bad meals in the over $75 category than in the under. Over $75 is often less a dinning experience than it is a social statement.
yeah, you're right, it is a statement. it states "i am so vain and insecure and most likely insignificant that i must spend an obscene amount of money to be recognized". [:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by elkoholic
The wife and I were just talking about this last night. I've had a higher % of bad meals in the over $75 category than in the under. Over $75 is often less a dinning experience than it is a social statement.
Same here, Not only bad meals, but plan out-n-out piss poor service [}:)]0 -
Dunno where you are - but - we have probably 100+ places here
where you can eat ... and especially the ones down by the beach
are pretty fine this time of the year - with all the bikini tops, an'
all!
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I do like sushi, so I'm probably not entitled to an opinion, but I'll state one anyway...
I've had the same experience you have with so-called fine dining, even though my fine dining is usually at a steak house. I go to Chicago once a year, and a couple of different suppliers take me out while I'm there. I thought Wollenski and Schmidt was excellent, but overpriced, and Lowry's was entirely overrated, and overpriced.
It's hard to beat a 20 oz prime rib at a local bar for $20.0 -
Shephards down here in florida is great, and if you have a boat you can drop anchor and swim up. Another good place was Guppy's on Gulf Blvd. Guppys is pretty expensive but food was good, i would have much rather gone to a steak house. 0 -
$75.00 MY JOB ONLY PAYS ME ABOUT $100.00 A DAY[:(][:(] 0 -
Well I managed reservations at Dorsia tonight, sorry for your luck chaps. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by RustyBones
Well I managed reservations at Dorsia tonight, sorry for your luck chaps.
That aint schitt...I got a table for two at Arby's w/a window seat..and free refills...[:o)]..Loko [:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Odawgp
Why is it that now days food isn't any good unless you drop 75-100 bucks a plate?
I over herd some coworkers in the office this morning talking about how their $75 a plate dinner was to dye for. (I hear this about once a week.) what makes a $75 meal, better than $20 meal. it sure as hell isn't the portions.
I have only been out "fine dining" twice and the company payed for both. Honestly i'd rather have gone to a good steak house. I didnt find the food tasted better just because they charged more for it.
Then there is the sushi bar. I hate to break it to them but the (free) salmon out of the river here taste just as good as their $45 salmon roll.
WHY, WHY, WHY, I don't get it.
I can hardly imagine paying $40 a plate, let alone 75 or 100. Wow.
Like others have said, its not about the food. Its all about showing your status in society - which is why companies are willing to fund such extravagant dinners.0 -
how many fine diners that you see are fat?[:0]
fine dining isnt about shoveling it in, its about the occasion. i took my wife out to a fine dinner for our anniversary, http://www.halfwayhouserestaurant.com/
and if you were to look at it from the road, youd probably never get out of your car, but the fact that LEE, GRANT, WASHINGTON, AND LAFYYETTE ATE THERE, is enough to set the special mood and atmosphere. the house use to be a stage rest stop between richmond and petersberg from the 16 and 1700's. its been in operation ever since as either a diner or inn.
next to us was the grogg bar in the basement where drinks were served passengers. the basement was old, low ceiling and the stairs are worn from thousands of people using them. the floors creek. the privies are small and you will bang your head if you dont duck in the door. the kitchen is an out building so the heat of the kitchen doesnt heat the house. servants run back and forth across the YARD to bring meals to you and there is a string tied to a bell stretched to the house from the kitchen thru a tree branch to call the servants to fetch meals in the kitchen, from the waiting station. its over 300 years old!
it had 4 country wine list to choose from, the meals were hot and wonderful, the wine was great, and from time we sat to time we left was 2.5 hours. it was a moment in time.
but, from a bubba perspective, youd probaly have sucked down the bottle in 5 minutes, burped, crammed the french bread into your mouth like a speer, with elbows on the table, you would have shoveled the salad in and remarked on how the home made blue cheese stunk, and wouldve ate the filet' in 2 bites. in between those moments, you would have given your wife her card, inhaled the upside down apple pie alamode, asked for the check, fainted, and promised never to come back to the dive again.
for me....paying 200.00 for a night out for 2, seperates me from that. i look at it like an admission fee that removes me from mainline america and into a safe zone away from bubba. it returns me to when dining out was a practice in civil obedience, mannors, and where preping food was an art and admired as such.
i for one would rather stare across a table admiring my wife by candle light, than to spend 2 hours watching hollywood embarrass themselves while i eat popcorn in a dark theatre.
and with the paychecks this new generation makes, haa! 75.00 a plate is pocket change. go out and enjoy. learn the old world art of dining.
75.00 a meal is more like paying to be treated special, instead of being herded to a feeding trauth.0 -
I had great dining experiences that were worth that much. I have also made meals that were worth that much and more because they were made with passion, love, and expertise. One person on earth would be worthy of all the side items mentioned and he knows who he is. Yes, I am a female. I have also had great meals for under $5. It all depends on your palate, service and expectations. The company can either increase or decrease the experience exponentionally. I make great oxtails, soups, and black beans along with other items. I love sloppy joes for 3.95 down the street and very high priced steaks at CERTAIN Morton's locations and sushi at a very few places across the country along with two great fish and seafood restaurants in Florida (Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale). Blue Door is excellent in South Beach. I'll never pass up grits and french toast at my neighborhood dive for $4.50 or my mom's spaghetti, nana's chicken livers, and my sister's chicken salad. 0 -
Never dropped $75 / plate, but easilly have in one meal, if the price includes before dinner cocktails, hors-douvres, soup, salad, entree, wine with meal, dessert, and after dinner drinks, tax and tip.
Depending on the restaurant, and the company, worth every penny.0 -
Thanks for the lead Bobski. 0 -
Can't say I've ever spent $75 a plate-the closest is when I went to a Ruth Chris on the company and had a $50 steak. Good, but not incredible. I prefer Mancini's in St. Paul--where a perfect filet and a grilled lobster tail is about $25. My buddy and I try to get there at least every other month...
However--if you add in the bar tab...yes, I've spent more than $75 at a meal more than once.0 -
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I couldn't have said it better myself.
Well...maybe a little better.
Doug0 -
bob
special occasion, ie anniversary im game. but i dont think i have to practice up for that once or twice a year event EVERY WEEK!!!
about the only way it seperates me from bubba is i have 15 bucks worth of food in my gut and he has 55 more bucks in his pocket.0 -
Go to a place called Black Bears in Medford Oregon. God bless that place.
Move to Oregon get place to live! Great scenery, restraunts and life styles! /waits for Doug0 -
Bob has spoken...from atop his high horse direct from Vatican City...but he is right it just depends on the social statement you are trying to make. 0 -
just had this conversation with a friend, it is the atmosphere, and the presentation, i'm convinced if you decorate the plate right you can feed people sheet
chocolate syrup in a squirt bottle make a few z's, run a tooth pick over it a few times, drop a mint leaf on it, and you can get 10.00 for a twinkie
make people wait long enough for their food, and it taste 10x better or "to die for"0 -
[8D]-Evidentally, you've never eaten at the HOUSE of PRIME RIB in San Francisco--
--A dinner there for 4 usually costs $160 with everything--
--pretty hard to compare ANY meal to their's--
----JIMBO0 -
quote:Originally posted by jimbowby
[8D]-Evidentally, you've never eaten at the HOUSE of PRIME RIB in San Francisco--
--A dinner there for 4 usually costs $160 with everything--
--pretty hard to compare ANY meal to their's--
----JIMBO
now that sound like some good eats, sounds alot like the CHOP house in DENVER.0 -
quote:Originally posted by jimbowby
[8D]-Evidentally, you've never eaten at the HOUSE of PRIME RIB in San Francisco--
--A dinner there for 4 usually costs $160 with everything--
--pretty hard to compare ANY meal to their's--
----JIMBO
Some of the best prime rib around here is at the Moose Lodge. A dollar an ounce with all the trimmings. Don0 -
Whats wrong with $5.00 at taco bell? [B)][B)][B)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
Whats wrong with $5.00 at taco bell? [B)][B)][B)]
Even that will not impress Bucktooth Betty. Don0 -
[8D]--Yea dcon, you're probably right, our MOOSE cooks a pretty mean Prime too--
--At the House of Prime in SF, they roll a big stainless sieel grill (enclosure) to your table and DISPLAY three (3) full prime ribs-then ask you if you want warmed/rare/HOT and how big a cut, then cut it IN FRONT OF YOU---
--JIMBO0
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