Most expensive dinner?

I'll be honest, I have no recollection of how good the steak was.

But I do remember having a fun night and a good experience. Plus, my folks were in town for a visit & picked up the tab.

 

I like getting on phone in desert room and requesting obscure songs.

 

Unless your butcher is dry-aging your porterhouse, there's no way to replicate that kind of meal at home. If your butcher is dry-aging your porterhouse, you're going to be paying enough for it to justify going to the steakhouse anyway.

No mention of Doe's Eat Place yet? French Laundry?

 

The steak picture was just unfair.

I grew up both in a very rural area and the son of a mom who grew up on welfare and lectured me whenever I dared order an entree that cost more than $10-12, so I can't say I've had many four-star dining experiences. I'd be surprised if we ever cracked the $75 mark for the four of us.

 

I've made 95 percent of my top restaurant stops on the company dime. I'm guessing that's the case with quite a few on here.

 

Someone else has paid for the majority of my expensive meals too.

If someone gives you enough business, it's easily justified.

I worked for a gold broker on the trading floor at the old WTC years ago. Cargill had their own broker, but for whatever reason, they would occasionally send business our way as well.

So, every once in a while we'd take the Cargill traders -- the guys in the office, not the floor traders who were our competition -- to Peter Luger's.

Over the next week or two, they'd send us enough business to more than justify the expense of the dinner.

Then they'd go back to sending the majority of their business to their own brokers until we did it all over again.

If I could do one thing differently in my career, I would have wined & dined the floor brokers on the exchange when I was an independent trader. People are easily bought/influenced. And if taking someone to an expensive dinner -- or even a strip joint -- means that you can buy on the bid & sell on the offer when they have customer orders to fill, it's money well spent.

 

Just don't let Lucky Strike pick up the tab.

 

Nice.

 

everything tastes better when others pick up the tab...

 

couldn't agree more. no one grills a better steak than i do. but there's something about the upscale steakhouse experience that can't be beat. my wife doesn't eat red meat so we go maybe once or twice a year and i'm fine with that because it makes the experience all that much more fantastic.

 

Out of sheer boredom, I added up the totals to date (excluding Canadian funds and one wedding).

$27,851. Collectively we represent half a Dez Bryant tab.