And was it worth it?
I can’t think of ever buying something very expensive in raw monies, but I did once pay £2 for an olive. An £8 plate for 4 kalamata olives split 4 ways. They were ricotta stuffed and fried. It was exceptionally tasty, but we did not expect such a wild price ratio for an otherwise affordable place.
There’s a fancy grocery store near me, and in the deli, they had acorn-fed organic-raised Iberico Pork charcutery.
It was, I want to say, $160 a pound.
It was my birthday, and getting them to slice it as thin as they could, I bought a tenth of a pound of this $160 a pound Iberico pork.
It was the most delicious thing I’d ever eaten in my entire life.
I shared it with my girlfriend and she almost cried at how good it was.
A waygu steak from a teppanjaki grill in a highly rated Japanese restaurant. It was absolutely perfect.
Three star michelin place. bottomless dom with the appetizer.
Which, is not actually really any better than bottom shelf andre brut or cooks and such. Any good wine should be less than $20 a bottle, with exceptions that were brought out for each other course. The name, price, and dick waggling that comes with it is the point. So if you never get the illustrious Dom Perignon, don’t fucking worry, just make sure your shit’s chilled all the way through before you get to the function.
Never knew raw oysters could actually be good. The presentation and explanation of each dish and subsequent wine pairing was great. Fabulous time, worth it. I think it was something like $700, all told? Bucket list of my partner’s, so double points.
SOMETHING ELSE that’s super fucking worth it: Taking a cross-country trip on the Amtrak in a sleeper car. It’s first class, super bicycle friendly, and included in the ticket price is three full meals a day, with a boozy drink at dinner. Last I checked, it’s over a grand from boston to the west coast, but it’s like living in steamer trunk for a few days and is just super fucking rad
Bottomless dom
I was thinking of something else for a long time.
12-year old single malt scotch. I bought a bottle as a birthday gift for a friend and we shared a glass.
He decided he didn’t like the taste and drank the rest with coke, so obviously next time I’ll buy him a bottle of turpentine and a monogramed shot glass.
Oof, just give it back at that point.
Corporate customer dinner in Vegas, footed by sales director, who insisted on ordering the most expensive bottle of scotch on the menu.
It was pretty good, but pretty sure not worth the high 4-digits.
He did get to close the sale 🤷🏻♂️
Drank a $600 bottle of champagne. I was young and burning my money on dumb shit. It was not worth it.
I didnt and still dont have the palate, but an $8 bottle of passion pop tasted just as good.
Two things for different reasons.
I had a meal plan in college that drew from an account linked to my university ID. There were vending machines that could charge your meal plan account when you swiped your ID. I bought a bag of spicy Cheetos, orverdrafted, and had to pay $50.
I cracked my tooth on a lifesaver and had to get a crown for $1000.
Not as expensive as some of the other comments here but
Around $70~80 for the cheapest steak at a medium- to high-end restaurant in Chicago. Worth the experience and I bet most ppl would have loved it, but that’s how I found out I don’t like steak…
The second most expensive restaurant I’ve been to (averaging $40~50 per entrée) was legit amazing though
Ask me in a couple months, taking a trip to NYC and I have like 5 Michelin stars worth of restaurants lined up.
A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.
I think I would puke if my lunch cost $1500. So there’s really no point in me eating it in the first place.
Okay, maybe it was $1200.
Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.
Real A5 Wagyu melts in your mouth, it’s absolutely a different result than marinating. You wouldn’t want to eat a whole steak of that though, way too rich. You want a few ounces at most, but those few ounces are divine. If you could stomach a whole steak, it almost certainly wasn’t A5.
The texture certainly was better, sure. I just remember I wasn’t that impressed by the flavor. I’m used to marinated flank steak which is considerably more sinewy but made up for with seasoning and spices.
Also it was pretty small, and I shared it with my partner. I wanna say 8oz? The guy who bought it to treat us was a real Midwestern American though, so it’s possible he was bamboozled.
I went to an expensive hotel in the off season, and talked to the bartender a lot. He offered me a very expensive scotch at cost, because he knew I’d like it. “At cost” was $360, normally they charged $900 for it.
It was very good. I would have regretted paying $900 for it, but to try it at $360, it was worth it once.
A long time ago I went to a fancy steak house and ordered one of those $250 whiskey shots they keep in the special cabinets. The experience was kinda neat (they did a whole little presentation of bringing out the bottle, encouraging us to take pictures, etc.), but the whiskey was just fkin whiskey.
Old Pappy bourbon at $189 an ounce. Absolutely not worth it
