Comments on: When Money is no Object

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:45:00 +0000

I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars, but it’s pretty f’ing good.

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:18:13 +0000

The $5 milkshake, unfortunately, not from jack rabbit slims.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:35:49 +0000

This year my husband and I went to Vegas for a week. While en route, we struck up a conversation to the man sitting next to us on the plane. He was discussing very calmly how he always goes to either Vegas or the Bahamas to gamble, and will normally spend around half a million or so per gambling adventure. He said as to how the casino’s basically “pay” him to come by giving him extra perks like expensive dinners or shopping trips for his wife. He then proceeded to ask us out to dinner the next nite so we can experience what he says is “the best steak in town” at the Mandalay Bay.

My husband and I thought he was “full of it”, but we did say we’d come find him the next day and we could meet up. Long story short, we did find him playing blackjack in one of the exclusive gambling halls playing with 10K chips. Of course then we knew he wasn’t exaggerating!

He later took us out to the expensive place in the Mandalay that served Kobe steaks. As he didn’t want to eat, stating he was feeling ill, he told the Maitre’d that we could order anything we wanted and to bill it to his room! He also gave my husband a $100 for tip.

In the next two hours, my husband and I proceeded to dine and had a bill of almost $900. The kobe steak was excellent, of course that alone was $200 for 6 ounces, amazing! Can’t believe people actually spend that much on a piece of meat. But with the whole experience, we didn’t have to spend a dime. It was a memorable nite for sure!

By: Mescan

Mescan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:17:01 +0000

while trying to impress my ex-girlfriend on our first official date, i asked the waiter what the specials of the day were. after he recited them i replied with i’ll take them all. we ended up with lobster, beef and pork medalions, great soups and some really amazing desserts. needless to say we had alot of delcious leftovers. totally worth it. i’m going to visit her for christmas break.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:44:50 +0000

Once, waaaaaay back in high school, I took my girlfriend out to eat at a seafood restaurant. She ordered lobster bisque, but they brought her a whole Maine lobster by mistake. When the waiter brought it to our table, he set up one of those little stands nearby and proceeded to crack that sucker open to extract the meat, so I didn’t realize it was for my date until he plunked it down on the table. Being a stupid kid, I didn’t complain and she ate it. However, I did have to ask her for a little cash to help me cover the bill.

And the waiter got no tip.

By: Moon

Moon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:38:32 +0000

It shouldn’t count as the most expensive if you have to put gold leaf or diamonds on it to make that expensive.

For example, the most expensive hot fudge sundae should NOT be because it has gold leaf on it, it should be because it uses the finest ingredients and TASTES THE BEST!!

And, unless it greatly adds to the taste, no adding truffles or other exotic ingredients just to get the price up!

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:37:20 +0000

The most expensive thing that I, personally, have paid for at a restaurant was a bottle of wine that was about $100.

I have a hard time shelling out for food, but alcohol?? Sign me up! Actually, that bottle of wine was bought at an awesome Italian restaurant in Napa, so the cost was legit.

I’m sure my company has paid for more expensive items than that, though. But I could never guess how much some of our meals would cost.

By: donner

donner — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:16:12 +0000

Yes, trained pigs can sniff out truffles…the problem is – they are so strong that its difficult to pull them off the truffle before they eat it…so dogs are used more often because they won’t eat the $100 truffle under the tree…

By: Codius

Codius — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:49:40 +0000

I saw a show on Food Network and they visited a restraunt that makes a $100 Philly Cheesteak. It’s made with Kobe beef, lobster tails, truffles, and some imported French cheese.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:33:29 +0000

I forgot to answer the question…

I’ve always had a hard time as an oenophile dining in popular restaurants. How they can get away with the markups on those bottles of wine is beyond me, but we did pay $100 for a bottle of Frog’s Leap Cab… I’m pretty sure it retails for about $40. Our most expensive dinner was actually outside of NYC in Charlotte, NC. We chose the Chef’s Tasting Menu, and with the optional wine selection, averaged close to $400 for two people. That was my personal splurge but I don’t doubt others have far surpassed me… but dang, that was some tasty dinner.