Dinner Was How Much?

[dirtman775]

Just got off the phone with my well to do brother. He was telling me him and his family had gone to a resturant to have a steak dinner. Dont know if i should mention the establishment or not so here go's.

4 steak's, 4 side's (ala carte),4 drinks, bottle of wine, 4 desert's.

SURVEY SAY"S!!!! 525.89

. it's been a while since the wife and i have gone out to have dinner and now i know why. is it me or is that just off the charts for a steak dinner?

 

[fired up]

At higher end steak houses a good steak is going to be around $50, a baked potato is $7 lol, Drinks from $10-$15 each, wine could be $50- as much as you want to spend. And desserts are around $10 each. So that sounds about right. Is that including tip?

 

[fishawn]

My neighbor spent over $3,000 in a strip club in Vegas!...He used the wrong VISA & his wife got the bill

. Have'nt seen him in a while.......I think he quit drinking too!

 

[dirtman775]

i dunno bout the tip but, now i know why the wife and i stay home and eat. 525.89 i feel i can put towards my kid's education. maby im just gettin old....lol

 

[dirtman775]

DENY DENY DENY no matter what she thought she saw

 

[bmudd14474]

Thats not a bad price for a top of the line place but if its like outback then they got screwed

 

[cruizer]

Probably could not get in with blue jeans. Restaurants suck.

 

[fired up]

Heck, there is a restaurant in chicago where you can sit at a table in the kitchen. It costs $250 per person just to sit at the table. Then you pay about $1000 each for food and wine, unless you get the expensive wine.

 

[fire it up]

I would never pay to sit in a kitchen and eat! I have worked in restaurants for a long time and couldn't imagine how that could be fun. Maybe I am biased about it but I just can't fathom sitting in the back of the house dining.
Interested in what place they went to. If not saying their name you could always just slightly change it so we can get a good idea.
I know in AC, Philly and NYC around here they have Bobby Flays, Morimotos, and Peter Lugers and those places are all pretty pricy, so that would sound about right, but like bmudd said, if they went to somewhere like Outback then that is crazy.
Hell, what am I talking about? $528 for any dinner is completely outrageous, especially considering the end result...

 

[bbq engineer]

And I'm pi$$-d that the 1/2 gallon of ice cream in the store is now only 1.75 quarts! What a rip off!

The wife and I go out to reasonably priced restaurants, but for steaks / seafood, I'm grillin' that myself for a fraction of the cost, and usually get a better meal.

 

[dirtman775]

That's my whole point. We have realized that we cook better at home. i seriously doubt that the steak they had was any better than what i do at home. "not tootin my own horn" The life we have now our prioritys have changed and i will be damned if im gonna spen over $500 on a steak dinner but , to each his own

 

[chisoxjim]

sounds about right at any of Chicago's better steakhouses(Saloon, David Burkes, Joes etc). My wife and I usually come in around $300 but that includes tip, alot of beer, and tequila for me.

I guess you have to keep in mind that dry aged prime beef is expensive, and worth the cost in my opinion for an occasional splurge. David Burkes above dry ages their steaks for upwards of 20 days in a room lined with salt from the Himilayas.

I am also lucky enough to have access to prime, and dry aged prime beef at a local butcher who cuts the meat to order, not by weight, but by how thick you want your steak..., so I can cook these steaks at home pretty easily as well. But sometimes a nice prime steak, and a lobster at a restaurant is the way to go imho.

hand cut 36 oz. t-bone I grilled @ home back in February:

1.5 # lobster, and 9 oz prime filet I had for my birthday last month @ Harry Carays:

 

[cman95]

WOW, I think I am just going to take my wife for a Happy Meal!!

 

[smokin' dick]

And I'm even more pi$$-d that the 1/2 gallon that was 1.75 quarts is now just 1.5 quarts. What the heck are they gonna do with the pints now?

 

[the dude abides]

LOL My brother did the same thing. He was out it Vegas for work and took a bunch of clients to the Spearmint Rhino. He uses his personal credit card and his company reimburses him. But when he was racking up hundreds of dollars at a strip club the credit card company called his house to check and see if the card was stolen. They talked to his wife. She called his cell and asked what the hell he thought he was doing. Needless to say he hasn't been back to Vegas or a strip club in quite some time. HAHAHA