High-end Dining: Expectations and Reviews

[Pudge714]

I don't eat shellfish for religious reasons, not taste reasons.

[7ontheline]

Ah, n/m then.

[MEbenhoe]

This thread is so interesting and confusing to me. I have no idea what a >$75/plate restaurant must be like. When I've taken my gf to what is considered the nicest restaurant in La Crosse, the total bill including tip probably ends up around $75. You could order the most expensive appetizer, entree, and dessert in that place and it would still be under $75.

[MrMon]

You might have to head over to Rochester and check out the Red Lobster if you want to take it up a notch. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[NorCalJosh]

I don't suppose we have anyone here who laid down the 25k to take part in that dinner over in bangkok that can give a review?




(link for anyone who didnt read about it)

http://www.chinatownconnection.com/b...ive-dinner.htm

[Aloysius]

That's a very expensive meal!

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But Marc Meneau, the chef of L'Esperance restaurant in Vezelay, France, called it a "culinary work of art."

"It's no more shocking than buying a painting that costs $2 million," he said.

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Uh...

-Al

[NorCalJosh]

yeah except for the fact that it ends up in the toilet 12 hours later ya know?

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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This thread is so interesting and confusing to me. I have no idea what a >$75/plate restaurant must be like. When I've taken my gf to what is considered the nicest restaurant in La Crosse, the total bill including tip probably ends up around $75. You could order the most expensive appetizer, entree, and dessert in that place and it would still be under $75.

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even in Boston, an expensive city by most standards, I think there are 3 places where food could cost me > $75 (unless I was really trying to get to $75, or ordering a 5 lb lobster or something). but I'm not really sure, b/c while I go out often, it's not to top tier places.

not included in the above are any of the best steakhouses, where I would normally spend like $40 per entree some split apps for less than $60pp.

according to Zagat, here are the top 10 restuarants in Boston

Oishii
L'Espalier
Aujourd'hui
No. 9 Park
Hamersley's Bistro
Blue Ginger
Mistral
Icarus
Il Capriccio
Oleana

I've been to all of these except:

L'Espalier
Aujourd'hui
No. 9 Park
Il Capriccio

of which the first 3 probably fit into > $75 pp IF you go with the chefs tasting menus, otherwise not. none of the others do, they are more like $35 - $45 entrees + $15 apps, as are No. 9 Park and the other 2 I presume. I normally don't order dessert, and if I did would split it with someone else.

but anyways to your point Meb, I don't think there are many of these places outside of NYC, SF, LA, and mb Chicago I guess. eating a la Carte in Boston, I could easily do < $75 anywhere in the city.

[El Diablo]

KBZ,

I'd say that anywhere that has a tasting menu > $80 fits in here, even if you can do a non-tasting menu meal for less. Basically, I read OP as something like >$100 per person for normal meal for two with a bottle of wine. I am sure Boston has tons of restaurants that qualify as high-end dining.

[citanul]

KBZ,

a friend says

federalist
clio
l'estpalier
spire
radius
blue ginger

and "i'm sure there are more"

the point isn't that there are a ton of these places. these are places that people consider "destinations," and obviously you need population and wealth to support these sorts of places, but seriously, a city doesn't have "few" places if it only has 10 places with $125 tasting menus. there aren't like hundreds and hundreds in the US.