Most expensive dinner?

We've crowded the $100 mark with drinks included. For the few times we can actually go out to eat I don't mind paying that if the foods good and you're full when you're done. Not sure how I'd feel about $290 though, that's a lot of ribeye's on the Weber.

Happy wife, happy life..

 

Latest cow (last Saturday) 3.19 a pound. Tomorrow I’m making a tenderloin roast for V.D. Green beans we froze from our garden, maybe squash from the same. Couple baked potatoes might have cost a dollar. Expensive meal for $10.

but yes we have had meals well over the $100 mark. We like the Lucerne Inn occasionally, old place good food and comes with a price tag.

 

My buddy operates a "private dining" club out of his house. He converted half of his basement into an interactive kitchen/dining room, seperate entrance very nicely/professionally done. He books only one group per night, minimum of 6 max is 14. He is pretty much a one man show and very interactive with the diners, although he will call in a helper sometimes with bigger groups. I used to help him once in awhile. You come with your party and the place is yours for the night, no time limit, 5 courses including desert bring and serve your own alcohol. He doesn't advertise, there is no sign and books as many dinners as he wants, 3-4 a week, books out months in advance. It's his passion and he just doesn't want to cook for someone "who doesn't get it and is just trying to get full" so the only way he will give you a reservation is if you have been there before, claims he can trace every dinner back to the original. You make a reservation and he sets the menu based on your conversation with him, everyone eats the same. $150/person cash only, tip included.

 

Understand fully!

 

Wow! Do you consider it worth cost?

 

That sounds awesome!

 

You beat me by $.04 per pound on our last cow. It was mostly boned out though. Nothing like raising your own. We usually dry age ours about 2 weeks. How long do you let your hang?

 

That sounds like a pretty nifty operation he has going. Is that his only job?

 

LOL

He used to work in the lab right next to mine when I first started, we would have beers and wings every Friday. One day he tells me about his plans, says he's going to leave the lab, I told him he was F-ing crazy it'll never work. It took about 6 months of him doing both before he did leave the lab. Couple months later we were working a big dinner together...great group...lots of fun...we were at a super hectic spot of the night, trying to get the food out just right, and he stops and looks at me and says, "you were right...this will never f-ing work"...LOL. At the end of the night one of the guys at the dinner introduced himself, owns an MLB team, he wants to know if my buddy will come to his house in FLA and cook for a group down there, he flew us down and put us up in his house...crazy.

 

I crossed the $100 mark on a dinner for 2 in Denver almost 30 years ago! Steak and lobster tail for each of us if I recall and probably not much for drinks.
The wife and I have done it a couple times more recently at an upscale golf course where a friend of mine was the head chef. The cool part of those dinners was that the 18th green was right off the patio of the restaurant, and at sunset a bagpiper in traditional garb would stand on the green and play for a little while.
Yeah, I’m weird I like the sound of bagpipes
The piper was actually from Scotland, he and his wife would over come for the summer just for that, I wonder what they paid him!

 

I'd need a wheel barrel. Lol

 

The cocktails can really zoom up the tab.

I am lucky at the moment that some of the folks I do business with will attend national conferences, and schedule a dinner for their clients.

I can count on two or three of those type meals a couple times a year, paid by someone else.

I covered a meal for my command and their wives at a locally owned steak place, that fortunately serves only beer and wine. Cocktails would have run the cost up another 30%. One guy is like a beagle after rabbits when it comes to free meals and drinks. He had about five beers as it was.

 

We have a local butcher and smokehouse and we get most of our meat from them. It costs more but we hardly ever go out to eat and we eat really good at home!

 

When the wife and I go out together or with friends we are between the $200-$250 dollar mark including a babysitter.
The drinks add up quick.

 

If your wife cheats on you with a lobster that’s gotta be the worst!

 

We don’t raise them, we have a couple farms/butchers near us that raise them just to butcher. The price is for everything. Had the other place was 3.00 per Pd but last one we got there was really tough. I know this one hung for a while, they called to find out what we wanted for cuts and it was probably another week and a half before they called to say it’s ready.

 

Most expensive dinner was the first date with my wife. We've been paying ever since.

 

They butcher and wrap for that price? If so, that’s insane!! Where are you located?