unless you're rolling in filthy lucre, there's little reason to go past $30ish for a main at a nice restaurant, yeah
there will always be exceptions, or exceptional "experience" dining that is kind of a different thing (like you get thirteen weird courses of foams and ribbons and particulates and what have you), but i agree that diminishing returns will kick in past that
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
One time I went to a place where the food was in the 30 dollar range.
Just once, I mean god, that was a lot. It was really delicious food though! So.
ive been to a fair few places where the price was £retardo and my main takeaway has always been the sudden realisation halfway through that i really want mcdonalds
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
restaurants make a ton of money on drinks anyway so that's where most of their profit is
One time I went to a place where the food was in the 30 dollar range.
Just once, I mean god, that was a lot. It was really delicious food though! So.
ive been to a fair few places where the price was £retardo and my main takeaway has always been the sudden realisation halfway through that i really want mcdonalds
when i was a young kid (6? maybe?) my parents took me and my brother to a nice restaurant.
i wasn't interested in any of the food on the menu, so I asked for a hotdog.
They didn't serve hotdogs.
But I got a $40 hotdog.
Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
unless you're rolling in filthy lucre, there's little reason to go past $30ish for a main at a nice restaurant, yeah
there will always be exceptions, or exceptional "experience" dining that is kind of a different thing (like you get thirteen weird courses of foams and ribbons and particulates and what have you), but i agree that diminishing returns will kick in past that
the fat duck is like this but it basically turns out that having loads of ridiculous bullshit courses is a load of bullshit
heston blumenthal reported
where my chips at
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spacekungfumanPoor and minority-filledRegistered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Are you guys really going to restaurants that don't list the prices on the menus they hand to you? I don't remember the last time I was in that situation.
that has only happened to me at restaurants where they do a fixed-price multiple-course meal that's always going to be tremendously expensive anyway.
I'm so over tasting menus. I'd rather just get what I want and spend less. The last time we did a tasting menu it was mid 3 figures and nothing was amazing until I asked them to bring my wife a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup instead of the cheese plate. Best thing of the night and, hands down, the best grilled cheese and tomato soup I ever tasted, but was it worth that much? I don't know. I'd rather have had that for $50 and skipped the poached pear and perch salad or watermelon and leek gazpacho. . .
but yes french cuisine is tragically boring and i get taken to these nice restaurants and all the entrees are like, steaks in a sauce and i just want some french fries and a burg or something
#firstworldproblems
how do you even enforce a rule banning discussion of compensation
that's pretty pie-in-the-sky aside from social engineering tactics
you have a shitty hr department
I'm in kind of a weird situation where once I graduate I want to work where I interned. But I have NO IDEA how much they get paid.
And I was paid kind of a lot as an intern. So I kind of want to ask someone how much I should be asking for, but also don't??
You know?
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
My meals at high end dining establishments are priceless memories - the fact that I dropped 400-600 on a meal for two is nothing compared to the lasting memory of that wonderful meal.
And the fact that I can remember every time I did that is kind of the point. If that became the new normal I think I would have to eat ortolan bunting just so I can get an erection.
Nobody wants that, so you gotta keep up with that steady diet of inexpensive delicious stuff rarely punctuated by the cray cray dining experiences.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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spacekungfumanPoor and minority-filledRegistered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I agree that going much over 30 an entree is normally a waste. But there are places where it is totally worth it IMO.
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will you be my breakup surrogate (it's only 3 dates but still awkward)
I watched Nymphomaniac Pt 2. I had originally watched Pt. 1 with Sarks but I ventured into this void on my own.
I never want to have sex again.
and sure. I've been drinking and I don't know her. What do you want me to say.
tell her she's cool but i'm not feeling it. don't mention that on getting naked and doing naked stuff, i just wasn't that into it even though that's the reason
also i kind of thought maybe that's what you watched
i only watched part of pt 2, but they were both awful
wait, you ...got naked and did naked stuff with her?
we did. i am no longer pure enough for jesus.
and...because of that you don't want to be with her anymore?
One time I went to a place where the food was in the 30 dollar range.
Just once, I mean god, that was a lot. It was really delicious food though! So.
ive been to a fair few places where the price was £retardo and my main takeaway has always been the sudden realisation halfway through that i really want mcdonalds
when i was a young kid (6? maybe?) my parents took me and my brother to a nice restaurant.
i wasn't interested in any of the food on the menu, so I asked for a hotdog.
They didn't serve hotdogs.
But I got a $40 hotdog.
We did this for my Grandparents 50th except the thing was the only person who gave a shit about going to a $100/plate place was the lone family member who planned it.
My grandparents were very much camping and fishing outdoorsy people who clearly found the menu choices to be shit and the entire experience to be a waste of time. They much rather would have had the family out on the lake all day and then ended it with a fish fry.
The entire thing was basically an excuse for said family member to feel superior. The whole thing was kind of disgusting in retrospect.
@21stCentury I think you could potentially help this guy.
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spacekungfumanPoor and minority-filledRegistered User, __BANNED USERSregular
My father in law basically pouts the whole time like a petulant child if you go anywhere but Peter Lugers for a celebration. We gave up a long time ago, so now we go to Peter Lugers 4+ times a year to appease him.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
@Kana, it's currently on at my local indie cinema and I am probably going to go see it before the weekend
Yesterday I went and saw the documentary on Ghibli, the Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
It was good? Very obviously a kind of fluff piece, no hard-hitting revelations about the company or its people, but it did possess a kind of elegiac quality to it, with everything being in reference to the idea of it being the "final" movies for both directors, etc etc
There's one comment that Miyazaki made in it re: otaku that I want to pull for my own purposes, though
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
My father in law basically pouts the whole time like a petulant child if you go anywhere but Peter Lugers for a celebration. We gave up a long time ago, so now we go to Peter Lugers 4+ times a year to appease him.
It's not even THAT good.
It's not bad, but it's not in my top 3 for the city.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
someone said something to me in a chat window that made me sad so i just closed facebook without responding
how are we all doing fellow emotionally mature, responsible adults
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
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there will always be exceptions, or exceptional "experience" dining that is kind of a different thing (like you get thirteen weird courses of foams and ribbons and particulates and what have you), but i agree that diminishing returns will kick in past that
ive been to a fair few places where the price was £retardo and my main takeaway has always been the sudden realisation halfway through that i really want mcdonalds
that's pretty pie-in-the-sky aside from social engineering tactics
this is why whenever I go on a hot date I order the bottomless breadsticks and the cheapest drink on the menu
take that, society
i wasn't interested in any of the food on the menu, so I asked for a hotdog.
They didn't serve hotdogs.
But I got a $40 hotdog.
you have a shitty hr department
the fat duck is like this but it basically turns out that having loads of ridiculous bullshit courses is a load of bullshit
heston blumenthal reported
where my chips at
I'm so over tasting menus. I'd rather just get what I want and spend less. The last time we did a tasting menu it was mid 3 figures and nothing was amazing until I asked them to bring my wife a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup instead of the cheese plate. Best thing of the night and, hands down, the best grilled cheese and tomato soup I ever tasted, but was it worth that much? I don't know. I'd rather have had that for $50 and skipped the poached pear and perch salad or watermelon and leek gazpacho. . .
#firstworldproblems
I'm in kind of a weird situation where once I graduate I want to work where I interned. But I have NO IDEA how much they get paid.
And I was paid kind of a lot as an intern. So I kind of want to ask someone how much I should be asking for, but also don't??
You know?
And the fact that I can remember every time I did that is kind of the point. If that became the new normal I think I would have to eat ortolan bunting just so I can get an erection.
Nobody wants that, so you gotta keep up with that steady diet of inexpensive delicious stuff rarely punctuated by the cray cray dining experiences.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
it was da bes
next question
Every burger I've had over $30 was a disaster though.
mmmmmmm
it was downtown austin too
i should go back soon
aaand it's got 100% on rotten tomatoes
aaand it looks crazy pretty
Super tempted to go see it
and...because of that you don't want to be with her anymore?
Your mom was like 5 courses with wine pairing.
Burger doesn't upscale very well.
A big part of what makes a burger so good is the pure, basic, juicy/greasy simplicity of it.
Once you throw the waygu beef on the artisanal brioche with the heirloom tomatoes and the rare breed bacon and the truffle oil and the...
fuck this, gimme shake shack or Harlem Shake.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I hope you got at least a reacharound from the wait staff too
there is this huge temptation to basically make the burger itself into a basically crap mashed up steak its like NO THAT IS NOT WAT U SHOULD DO
omg
Rare upscales burgers really well imo, but none are even close to $30.
Omg just saw the trailer yesterday
it looks goooood
We did this for my Grandparents 50th except the thing was the only person who gave a shit about going to a $100/plate place was the lone family member who planned it.
My grandparents were very much camping and fishing outdoorsy people who clearly found the menu choices to be shit and the entire experience to be a waste of time. They much rather would have had the family out on the lake all day and then ended it with a fish fry.
The entire thing was basically an excuse for said family member to feel superior. The whole thing was kind of disgusting in retrospect.
@21stCentury I think you could potentially help this guy.
Yesterday I went and saw the documentary on Ghibli, the Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
It was good? Very obviously a kind of fluff piece, no hard-hitting revelations about the company or its people, but it did possess a kind of elegiac quality to it, with everything being in reference to the idea of it being the "final" movies for both directors, etc etc
There's one comment that Miyazaki made in it re: otaku that I want to pull for my own purposes, though
It's not bad, but it's not in my top 3 for the city.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
how are we all doing fellow emotionally mature, responsible adults
420 watch subs erry day
this is an essay I enjoyed
@OnTheLastCastle my man is doing his thing, so this might be longer than an hour. I'll bat you when it's Time.
Tav I'm sorry but the dog from Air Bud is dead
that movie is 17 years old