Most expensive dinner?

I can cook a great steak but can't do the creamed spinich or hash browns like a steak house can.

I love the steak house experience - from starting with martinis with blue cheese olives, to the salads/ jumbo shrimp to the giant porter house Pittsburgh style.

Never go for desert - Prefer to test out the stock of aged scotch with a cigar if allowed.

I always like to find the local establishment but am never dissatisfied by Mortons or Del Fresco's . Love Bob's in Dallas and Don and Charlie's in Scottsdale.

To me it's worth spending $150 - $200 for a great steak and all the trimmings. I do a pretty fair amount of entertaining and not fazed by dinner tabs of $1000 +. Besides it's tax deductible so all of you kind tax payers assist me in a sense.

 

Great. Our first date at Stan's cost $22, and I paid.

 

Doe's is terribly, terribly overrated in my humble little mind for steaks. Tamales are the other thing there and are mediocre.

But, for the South, you can drop some serious cash fast there.

Most expensive meal for me was a trip to vegas and Wolfgang Puck's. It was $1,300 or $1,400 for 10 of us to eat and that included tip.

Great meal. Just had the waitress order for me, with wine. Sign of a quality eating joint was the waitress brought the best tasting food and not the most expensive. The wine was by the glass and equally thrifty, if that's the right word for a place that cost me $140 to eat.

Since she really doesn't drink most meal tabs are reasonable and that has been a good thing in keeping costs down. We've had some fine meals but in my town, the real good eating places all have fantastic specials like $25 a head for three courses for anything on the menu Tuesday nights.
Or the very best joint has a $75 a head tasting menu, seven courses and includes wine with each.

 

haven't been there in a couple seasons. could you each get 2 drinks for $22 now?

 

I've only been to Doe's once, but I adored it. Did you go to the original or a branch?

 

Boom is Don Draper.

Seriously that's a meal right out of the 60's.

Nothing wrong with it --I enjoy it too if someone else is paying--but it's about the least adventurous meal I can think of

 

Jay is right, Doe's is overrated. You can drop $50-100 there pretty quickly and walk out thinking "Ehhh." The best thing on the menu is the biscuits.

 

Funny stuff jr. I prefer to have my adventures with 21 after dinner.

If I am going to plunk down $200 bucks for dinner I know what I am getting in a Mortons steak. I am not so sure when ordering the chef's latest and greatest creation. I hate being disappointed at dinner.

I prefer to think of my choice as a timeless meal.

 

Tru is one of the best restaurants in Chicago. It recently got a new head Chef, so the Trib reviewed it again & gave it 4 stars.

Take a look at this excerpt, it can get pretty expensive -- especially if you order the caviar:

 

I read that review this morning and I've been thinking of that loin of lamb all day. It looks stupendous

 

I will wait to hear jr's review before I decide to go

 

You can get there before me. Don't you go to Chicago on a regular basis?