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January 2014 Moms
KEfam5
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GTKY: most expensive meal you've ever eaten?
KEfam5
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@buckeyebride22 's hot seat got me thinking (and practically hyperventilating) about going out to eat. I pitch a fit if we have to pay $40 dollars for a meal, all I can see is a weeks worth of groceries being whisked away by my attentive waiter/waitress. That doesn't mean we don't go out occasionally and if the food is very good then I don't mind paying maybe $60. However, I was blown away when she mentioned a $400 dollar meal! Nobody else said a thing about it though, which brings me to my point...is this a normal thing? What's the most expensive meal you've ever had?
ETA: I fail at TB so I guess there is a poll, above this post instead of inside it.
ETA: I fail at TB so I guess there is a poll, above this post instead of inside it.
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Re: GTKY: most expensive meal you've ever eaten?
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My husband and I are foodies, and we've had several expensive meals. We usually do an extravagant one about once a year. I think the most expensive one ever was in Bermuda. There were five of us and the bill came to $1300.
(I've often said to him that all we need to do to afford a baby is to trim our dining out budget.)
ETA: That was before tip, so the total we paid was more like $1600 -- which works out to be about $320 per person.
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DS1 born 08.02.11
DS2 born 12.05.13
eta: @vstevens
@MiaMyPuggle- Did I not realize we're in the same area? I have never been to Melt where we had to pay, DH's work had their Christmas party at Melt last year and it was pretty good...made me want to come back to eat! But yeah it was Shula's in the Promenade shops! DH's work does meetings there and he always talked about how good it was so he took me there for Valentines a few years ago. It's very comparable to RCS in prices though.
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DS1 born 08.02.11
DS2 born 12.05.13
I love a good chef's menu / tasting menu with wine pairings.
I would say that most expensive meal I've personally had has been around $350 per person (that's everything, food, booze/wine and tip).
My in-laws love a good 2-3 hour meal. When I first started dating DH, it made me uncomfortable, but now it's just routine. A night out includes cocktails, appetizers, sometimes separate salad, main course, dessert & usually a bottle of wine per 2 people (sometimes per person - we are a boozy crowd).
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BFP 10/8/12 | Missed Miscarriage - D&C 11/12/12
I'm clearly in the minority here, but I don't think I have ever had a meal that cost more than $50 in my entire life.
This does not include long dinners where there is more drinking than eating.
My H and I are definitely big into going out for meals on weekends. We will splurge on bigger meals for special occasions and I would say the bill will run us around $130-$150 depending on the alcohol we purchase. If we ended up in a bigger city celebrating I would expect the bill to be closer to $200 We certainly would gasp at a bill over that though because we do have our limits but I can certainly understand why some people spend a lot of money on fine meals. there is something about the experience that it just becomes the entertainment instead of doing some extra shopping or going to see a show.