What's the most you've ever spent on a meal?

[StevenK]

And was it worth it?

I'm not much of a foodie myself, but as I'm running out of things to enjoy in life perhaps I'm looking at it a bit more.

I'm talking per head, so catering for 300 on your wedding day doesn't count.

 

[dollfucker+]

And was it worth it?

I'm not much of a foodie myself, but as I'm running out of things to enjoy in life perhaps I'm looking at it a bit more.

I'm talking per head, so catering for 300 on your wedding day doesn't count.

are we counting the cost of getting comp dollars at a casino?

 

[Moob Butter]

Yeah it was like £250 for dinner for two including drinks at a Michelin star restaurant called the Kitchin.

Guess what? It was still food. It wasn’t magic food that made me have a religious experience or anything like that. It cost a lot, tasted very nice, was sorta clever in an arty way. It was a pheasant dish that looked like the bird had been run over and chopped in half and had an edible brain in the birds skull which I tried a tiny amount of - and decided I never needed to taste bird brain again.



High end food is very wanky but by all means go experience it once or twice to have some interesting memories.

 

[StevenK]

are we counting the cost of getting comp dollars at a casino?

It has to be in money. I don't want to hear about the depraved things you have done for food.

 

[StevenK]

Yeah it was like £250 for dinner for two including drinks at a Michelin star restaurant called the Kitchin.

Guess what? It was still food. It wasn’t magic food that made me have a religious experience or anything like that. It cost a lot, tasted very nice, was sorta clever in an arty way. It was a pheasant dish that looked like the bird had been run over and chopped in half and had an edible brain in the birds skull which I tried a tiny amount of - and decided I never needed to taste bird brain again.

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High end food is very wanky but by all means go experience it once or twice to have some interesting memories.

Yeah that looks kind of gross man

 

[Moob Butter]

Yeah that looks kind of gross man

Yeah and I think sometimes that’s the point of Michelin star places, it’s sometimes that they are provocative like pieces of modern art rather than actually ‘good food’.

I mean look at this place with 2 stars which serves you a chicken foot in a cage, or stuff that looks like plastic you’d find on a beach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20230110-alchemist-is-this-the-worlds-most-creative-restaurant

I’d much rather spend my money on high end bistro stuff as the food is cheaper, tastier, not weird and not such a tiny portion that you need to buy a fish and chip supper on the way home.

Incoming food porn.

A rabbit dish from the land of @smokey



A French duck breast dish I got in London. @kernow probably knows the names of all the staff and has slept with at least half of them.



And a big fuck off beff wellington I got local to me in the Scottish Borders.

 

[StevenK]

That beef wellington looks more like it

 

[Moob Butter]

Here’s the place. Worth the detour if you’re already driving up north https://seasonsborders.co.uk/restaurant/

 

[pixeljunkie]

Where's Bobak when you need him?

 

[BeefJerky]

Back in 2020 I spent $600 of my COVID stimmy on an old box of Nintendo Cereal System, ate it, and ended up in the hospital for a week.

I got to wear a koll space helmet though.

Spoiler:

 

[Average Joe]

Back in 2020 I spent $600 of my COVID stimmy on an old box of Nintendo Cereal System, ate it, and ended up in the hospital for a week.

I got to wear a koll space helmet though.

Spoiler:

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[dollfucker+]

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la beast is crazy. I dunno how he downed two jars of Vegemite.

 

[Average Joe]

My favorite is the sugar-free gummy bear one he did where all that sugar substitute turned his bowels into a slip-and-slide.

 

[dollfucker+]

lol I think I remember that one too

 

[bubba966]

I think it was a lobster dinner w/nice bottle of cab for me. Was $450 after all was said and done.

I quite enjoyed it all. Worth the splurge w/bonus $$. Certainly not anything I could justify on the regular. Or at all anymore

 

[NeoSneth]

I spent about $650 for a friend and I in Austin, TX. Some sushi place. Uchi? It was next to a Ferrari dealership, so that should have warned me.
We decided on some special 10 course meal, and we may have polished off a few bottles of Saki while we were at it. I think we went in slightly inebriated too.
I could not tell you if it was worth it. I dont remember a single dish. The memory was worth it. Last time I saw the guy. He's still alive..., I just dont get to Austin much.

 

[fake]

I did a tasting menu thing for the wife for her birthday one time. I think it was $150 per person or something. Not my type of thing, especially since I don't eat meat. My wife was able to have all sorts of seafood stuff with hers, but they were like "here's a squash filled with currants" for me when I'm like...please just give me broccoli and mashed potatoes.