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Nobhill tavern located at MGM Las Vegas. 5 course dinner for 8 came in at $2500.

Kings Inn on Baffin bay is good, but limited menu, sure some other Txs guys have eaten there.

OCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What was the tip?

Ray's is closed - fire. It's not even close to what it was when Ray owned a few decades ago.

+1 on Turks. Pork shank is unbelievable!

In my experience, anyway, limited menu is a good thing. Do what you do well. Don’t try to be all things to all people.

Here in Charleston, dining is almost a religion. There are great meals to be had of every type cuisine and a lot is world class. There are a few fine dining places we go to occasionally, where we end up dropping a couple of hundred bucks per person and it’s worth every penny.

Posh is subjective. Expensive? Had a sales meeting in Miami. 8 of us had dinner at some place on South Beach. An even 4 grand with tip. Had some 100 yr old Louis XIII at $150 a pop. Cocktails, apps, main, dessert, after dinner drinks, the works. Sort of pushed it to excess because the Boss said sky's the limit. Can't even remember what I ate. Sad.

One of the restaurants in the Fairmont Hotel in Banff Springs had a 7 course dinner that had a different wine with each course - that was around $500 for the wife and I. Nice, but not very memorable. Probably because I was pretty well geezed.

Had some good meals in NYC at Tavern on the Green, 21 Club, Rainbow Room, Le Cirque and others less known. The best was a small joint in Little Italy. I would crawl over broken glass to go there again. Lots of Wiseguys because I'm assuming they "know" where the best food is. Chicago has some nice places too. Ate Sunday brunch at Antoine's in NOLA. Flambé tableside, turtle soup, crepes, good stuff. Pricey though. Good food there - Emeril's and Commander's Palace should be on everyone's list.

Don't do much of this anymore except for special occasions with the missus. I prefer to find out of the way dives that have great tasting food. Ask the locals, better yet, ask a cop - they usually know. The key is to get the same recommendation from two different people.

6 of us went to some place in Milwaukee, be about '98?. 1700 bill.

Hostess was the one and only that caught me when I gave my name. I ALWAYS use "Abe Froman". She looked at me and goes "The sausage king of Chicago?"

That's me!

More recently, local place here in GB. 2 steaks, 4 drinks, 150.00

Not horrible but above my norm.

Nah, hanco. You’re just educated in things those folks have to hire you to do.

It went on the business credit card at the time and the tip was 25% so $625ish. Hey it was Vegas baby👍

I’ve been disappointed by the push dinning places I’ve been to, as well as the posh dining joints as well. 😂

My in-laws are coo coo for Cocoa Puffs over Ruth’s Chris’. They seek that out when they travel.

I went to one and left me notably unimpressed. Probably the last one I’ll go to. For steak, I’ve had better in folding chairs over an open fire in camp.

Did go to a place in Birmingham, AL that was reco’d here a few years ago. A bit snooty, but very good food. That was the first time I had sweet breads. Just wonderful.

Alfredo in Rome, Italy.Have had better food in Oakland mills Iowa.

Metropolitan Grill in Seattle or the Intercontinental Hotel in Frankfurt.

Won a sales contest and the company sent each of the top agents in their district to Italy for two weeks. We stayed at the Excelsior Hotel which was pretty plush but the highlight of the trip was meal at a mansion built on the grounds of one of Emperor Nero’s castles. I have no idea what the meal may have cost, but it was black tie and tails all the way. Each person was served by their own waiter or waitress, and you dare not set your fork down or the plate and silverware was whisked away and another dish replaced it. A different wine with each course and there were seven courses. The pastas all tasted like Chef-Boy-R-Dee. My mother wouldn’t have served the roasted veal main dish to the dogs. Had some good brandy and somebody gave me a Cuban cigar...which was good.

ironbender;
Good evening to you my friend, I hope the day was a good one for you and your fine family.

It's interesting to read what you and our fellow 'Fire compatriots have experienced in terms of memorable meals.

As far as high end eating, I recall dimly eating at what had to be one of the if not the most expensive place in Nairobi very early in January 1976. It had marble floors and several wait staff for each table - that I recall.

I was nervous about the flight home and a few other things, so being wired that way for much of my life, I ended up tossing supper into the immaculately clean toilet there before leaving.

It's ironic too that when we spent a couple days in San Antonio a couple springs back, one evening on the River Walk we spent somewhere around $250 for 4 of us - two vegetarians too so no big steak dinners all around. The next night we found a place across the river where we all ate what everyone said was a much better meal for less than $40. Funny how that goes sometimes, isn't it?

By far and away the best steak I've had was from an 18 month old steer that I'd personally branded for my rancher buddy. He had a way of finishing with not much grain somehow and between that and the folks who cut and aged it - well it was memorable ironbender - let's just say after a lifetime of being a diverse carnivore those steaks stand out.

All the very best to you all.

Dwayne

L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges in Lyon France.
Paul Bocuse was the chef and it was 3 Michelin star rated.
The sea bass with white sauce was excellent.

Honestly though if you want good food go to Crete, the Greek island. Almost every taverna just kills it. And it’s reasonably priced.

The Hall of Great Battles, Versailles Palace, France.

Multi course meal served by uniformed waiters wearing wigs.

French horns blaring as our busses pulled up.

Gov. of LA chartered two 747's to take a few friends over for a celebration.

I told my wife not to expect an encore.

But, I do take her to Paris every year. We stay over in Paris, TX on the way to Wichita to visit her folks.

And yep, those Texicans do have an Eiffel tower, theirs wtih a gaudy red hat on top. Pure class...

DF

31 years ago last month at the Crystal Palace Casino in Nassau on our Honeymoon . Can’t remember the name but it was the first time my bride and I had flown , much less out of the USA for both of of us country kids.
Tie and jacket required and my new wife in a smoking hot dress I still remember....we asked someone to take a picture of us outside and still have it. $140 with tip . She was 21 and I was 26 .

About 10 years ago I was leading a team to procure some cutting edge (at the time) LTE location technology.

We found ourselves in Stockholm, Sweden for a week. The company we were checking out took us on a private, five hour, 5-star dinner cruise through the Stockholm inner archipelago. The VP of the company we were doing due diligence on is a die hard hockey fan. He was pointing out various retired NHL greats' mansions on the hilltops overlooking the archipelago.

The food was amazing, the views and weather were even MORE amazing.

And, don't bother with the sorry, worn our coffee replies. After dinner drinks were top shelf aquavit, the defacto national spirit in those parts.

Hey. I said, "The Acropolis in Portland". Three stages and the best $5 steak this side of the Rockies.