The most expensive meal I ever paid for on a date (so not company card) was $500. What was the most expensive meal you ever paid for?

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We flew on SAS business class to Copenhagen from the US just to spend 2 days there and eat at Noma when they were still the #1 restaurant in the world and they announced they were closing. This was just my wife and I, not part of any business trip/expenses.

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K1, I tried to book a table for Geranium (before they were ranked) on that same trip and couldn’t find a table. I’ll have to come back fro Geranium and Noma 2.0.

SM4, it was very much an experience and the food was tasty too. It was a game of trying to figure out what was edible on the plate. “Oh that’s not a rock…it looks like a rock…wow this tastes nothing like a rock!”

I bought dinner for 8 to celebrate my mother graduating from a Registered Nurse program.

In my early twenties,
earning about 25k annually.

It was a lot of money but someone had to do it.

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Kudos to you. Lucky mom to have such a thoughtful kid, it's not even about the money.

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~$1400 at French laundry

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$240 aud drinks and dinner with a date… from whom i received a text next morning saying - i dont think we’re a good match for each other

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Not counting my wedding reception, which takes the cake (pun fully intended), it was ~$800 for 3 at a Fogo to welcome my sister back from her first deployment.

My most expensive date was around $200 for 2, and that was the night I proposed to my now-wife. Besides that my most expensive meal, date or otherwise, was ~$150 for 2.

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Too much meat

Treated my mom to Tempura Matsui in Manhattan for $400

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Yes. Best tempura of your life, guaranteed.

Wow, this is eye opening. I’m too middle class to spend this much on food.

And they just write about lattes and avo toasts - imagine how much your nw could be if you invested this!

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It’s just $$. You can’t take it with you. Live a little. :)

Just for two, The Modern in Manhattan is first place that springs to mind. $225 per person for tasting menu plus alcohol.

Most expensive is wedding dinner hosting 104 people. Thank you father in law!

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$800 for 4 at a lovely steakhouse in DFW

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We spent around the same per person for 3 of us at Town Hearth to celebrate a friend’s great new job (without even ordering bottles of wine). Definitely worth it.

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$1700 for a table of 4

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$650 for two at The Loyalist in Chicago.

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Loyalist or Smyth???

If Loyalist, how do you drop $650 there??

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~$1900. Treated Mum to a trip to Heston Blumenthal’s ‘Fat Duck’ in Bray. An absolutely legendary day!

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$150 for my damn self 😭😂😆

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$1000 for two at the Inn at Little Washington

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Was it worth it? We’ve been debating going for a while now. Heard very mixed things from various foodie friends

$1300 for two at Alinea in Chicago
$850 for two at Ko in NYC
$750 for two at an omakase in Tokyo
$400+ at Next in Chicago
Over $300 at a bunch

I have spent too much on food.

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$2k at le cinq in paris

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$110

$800ish for two?

800 for a tasting menu

$1200 for 2 at a steakhouse in Toronto.

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