Ever had a very expensive meal out?

Question

I was treated to a family meal the Ritz London but missed it! Another time I was treated to a very expensive meal on Valentines Day with two male friends! Seemed to be a lot of flowers on the tables!

Answer 1

The French House in Soho serve fantastic food. It is not cheap, but is my favourite London resturant when we want a treat. The bar downstairs is also great.

There are some good restaurants in Brighton, St. James Street. Try Ruby's or the No Name. Remember to take your credit card!

Answer 2

YES!

took my G/F out for a light bite and fell in love with her and it cost me loads as we married and you know how much a wedding costs.

I would still do it again as she is worth it.

Answer 3

Oh yeah. It was a wedding anniversary celebration. Well expensive. Luckyily we did'nt have to pay for it! Twas well nice though.lol

Answer 4

In a restaurant in Menorca on the harbour, lovely, but cost nearly £90 equivalent (and that was only starters and main, with 2 bottles of bear and a bottle of mineral water!) my boyfriend had the duck maigret and it was that raw it was still quacking when he put his fork in!!! bleuw!!

Answer 5

Had a meal at Loch fyne seafood restraunt it was quite pricey cost around £80 ,for one starter and 3 meals and 1 dessert of ice cream. In paris had a eal which was around £160 at a michelin star restraunt. It was good food though. The proof is in the pudding, no. The price is in the pudding.

Answer 6

Yeah. About a year after I moved to Ireland, a girl moved in across the street from me, well, down the hill and across the lake from me more like, anyway, I showed her around town, and took her to this really posh restaurant. The whole meal afterwards, cost around £150.00 when translated into British currency, (I'm STILL trying to get used to the currency over here!), luckily, my mother gave me £500 to spend.

Answer 7

not really as such being a bit project orientated I prefer to get value for money and will take advantage of specials, lunch menus and buffets at good restaurants wven the very good restaurants have a decent 2 course & 3 course set menu or lunch specials ....

I want to have a good meal for least cost even if it means nothing like the Ritz though and the most expensive meal I have had is at the Blue Elphant although my mother recollects taking me to the BT Tower restaurant when I was young and spnding a weeks wages up there!

Answer 8

Yes various meals in various countries and I've not paid for one of them. How cheeky is that

Answer 9

Yes...this weekend past ....my man reserved a table at Cityzen at the Mandarin Oriental.  The meal consisted of tasting portions only and started at $120. And we also had bottle champagne Pol Roger which was $150..The next day we had Smith and Wollensky which was also $150...

Answer 10

Yeah... I went to Germany and was treated to dinner. It was beautiful! I'm just glad I didn't have to pay the check!!

Answer 11

yes

Answer 12

There is good food, and there is expensive good food. Is a bottle of Petrus wine so good as to justify a price of £1900?

In some cases, the expense is justified - some of the best sauces in places such as the Ritz are expensively made by reducing top quality meat slowly to add to the base roux. In other cases one is paying for the name of the chef or restaurant. Food critics are often not much help, as they have prejudices for and against chefs and cooking styles. Furthermore, 'a good meal' can often be defined by ones social status - celebs who know nothing about food eat at Gordon Ramsay and his ilk, whereas pukka gastronomes may be seen at less-prominent restaurants where the food outshines the bling.

I recently had a very good dinner in the restaurant of the Bull Hotel, Peterborough - a ham and pea potage followed by venison with pureed herbed carrots and a celeriac and potato rosti and an excellent cheeseboard - price £25.

One of my signature dishes is a beef stew whose recipe originates in the Puglia region of Italy. Several people who have eaten it have enthused about it being a good example of Italian High Cuisine. In fact, it is a peasant dish that relies on the slow reduction of cheap cuts of fatty meat to make the rich  jus, and is about as close to Italian High Cuisine as a bacon sandwich is. Another dish that I do holds the magnificently patrician title of 'haricots avec fond tomate au pain grille', which translates to 'beans on toast'

The moral that I make is that, unless you are already an epicure, it is wise to do some research before going out for your expensive feed. If you know one, ask a  chef - we know the tricks of the trade. You might be surprised at our recommendations.

Answer 13

Have spent £70 a head at Hakka-san for Chinese New Years, plus drinks. Also spent a lot at a place in Moscow, Pushkin, which some think is the best restaurant in Russia. Girlfriends 30th birthday treat. I have had equally good meals that were inexpensive though.

I want to go to The Fat Duck, and have the £200 taster menu, that will be worth it as an experience.

Answer 14

Expensive is relative to one's buying power...I once had the lovely experience of spending about $100 for three people. It was pleasant to take my mum and a good friend for dinner to a nice place and say, "Money is no object." Just order, don't look at the prices! I've never been able to do that again but it was fun to treat those I loved.

Answer 15

Family meal in McDonald ...£30...phew!!

Answer 16

Yes plenty of times

Answer 17

25 years ago, I once paid £25.00 for a bottle of Chateau Neuf du Pape/  Lord knows what it would have cost today.  Did have a meal as well but can;t remember the price - I am pretty sure it was a fillet steak

Answer 18

ive had a couple when i was living in San Francisco last year.  The most expensive was over 250$ for 2 of us.  It was for Dining out for Life.  An AIDS fund raiser where a bunch of restraunts give a portion of all procedes to AIDS research, so we spent a lot of money on dinner, and donated an additional $500 cash.  2nd most expensive was Valentines day last year, over 150$ for 2.

Answer 19

Yes, but i had to pay for it myself and it was my mates engagement party / meal nite out for 2 courses it cost £40.00 and that was excluding the drinks!

Answer 20

yes there was an indian restauraunt calles jaipur,in milton keynes. it is gorgious , and sooooooooooo well decorated but very very costy, i went on my uncles 70th the meal costed 150 pounds!!!!!!!! i was gob smacked

Answer 21

I have had an expensive beer in Barcelona, we went there about seven years ago and sat in a cafe in the Ramblas, we asked for 2 beers and when we got the bill it worked out as £12. McDonalds is on the same street it would have been a lot cheaper there (yes they sell beer in McDonalds in Spain)

Answer 22

not yet but going in August to the Inn in Little Washington, VA.

A gift from my daughter when she married. It's 5 star and supposed to be great.

Answer 23

all the tym

Answer 24

decided to treat my girlfriends family to a meal at my local Spanish tapas bar but ended up having to borrow some money from her brother just to pay for the bill.

8 persons 280 quid but the food was great and so was the company try it

don Fernando's

in Richmond, Surrey about 150 yards from train station.

Answer 25

Like you, the most expensive meal I've had was in a Michelin starred restaurant in Paris. The meal and drinks for two was somewhere in the region of £350 ($700) ....don't remember the exact price as I must have blacked out.....having said that it was one of the most delicious meals I have ever eaten. The next most expensive was in an English Restaurant near where I live. It was 12 courses and cost around £265 for two with drinks.  Luckily I don't eat like that all the time....but h**l, if you can't push the boat out once in a while.

Answer 26

yes in new york  at a posh stake house cost us 90 quid each

Answer 27

Wow sounds to me like you are very loved!!!

Answer 28

I went to an awards ceremony with the company and a seat at the table cost over £500, and there were 8 of us in Park Lane, one of the big hotels, forget which one. The food was pretentious, don`t get me wrong it was nice, but pretentious.

Work also paid for a meal locally cost over £200 for 4 people which some people would conside modest, but it was a very good local restaurant and we had the best of everything, including the wine.

Martino`s in Sunderland, fantastico!

Answer 29

Yes, loads , Loved it!!

Answer 30

my answer is yes ive been to red lobster and for 2 meals its 50 bucks plus tips