DUmmies Discuss Fine Dining

[GOBUCKS]

In this thread, the DUmmies compare lies on how much they've spent at restaurants.

Remember, DUmmies are the louts you see wearing their ballcaps inside the restaurant. Half the time with the bill in the back.

They're not refined diners.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:47 AM
OmahaBlueDog (8,691 posts)

What is the most you'd pay for dinner out?
Someone I know was telling me about spending $300 for dinner for two out at Chez Panisse in Berkeley.
 
Maybe it's me, but I can't do it -- neither can Mrs. OBD. I think the most we've blown on dinner for two, with drinks & tip, is somewhere in the $125-150 neighborhood. And that's a once-a-decade thing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018313204

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:51 AM
Angry Dragon (23,731 posts)

1. Once spent about $150 in Rancho Mirage
but it was a gift certificate

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:56 AM
onehandle (33,894 posts)

2. For our tenth anniversary we went to Victoria and Albert's in The Grand Floridian Resort.

One of only three five diamond rated restaurants in Florida, but the one restaurant to hold it consistently for the longest.
 
Five hundred bucks, but we got 20% off

DUmmy NRaleighLiberal, who posted that lame bouncy about schooling a repuke in a sports bar, comes up with another wild tale:

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 12:00 PM
NRaleighLiberal (27,439 posts)

4. 15 years ago when I was working and it was a special anniversary -
dinner for 2 with tip for about 220.00 - best restaurant around.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:03 PM
NRaleighLiberal (27,439 posts)

22. Absolutely - the special meal was six courses and lasted more than two hours!

Riiight.


The only nice restaurant DUmmy kentauros has ever seen was in a James Bond movie:

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:15 PM
kentauros (21,050 posts)

23. I've never had the opportunity,
whether for monetary reasons, or not having a full suit (as is often required in such places.) It does sound like something to try once anyway

There are some 5-star restaurants in Houston where I probably wouldn't have to dress in a tux/black-tie suit, but with no one here (at the moment) to dine out with, I haven't gone.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 12:01 PM
Sekhmets Daughter (4,356 posts)

5. The late BF
would spend that much on a bottle of wine... I thought it was nuts myself, but he enjoyed it.

She let him get away. Sounds like DUmmy Sarah Imaboobi.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 12:18 PM
In_The_Wind (34,695 posts)

7. just for the two of us
(before the ponzie) $125 to $160 a few times a year. Usually $75 twice a month.

now zero.

DUmmy lost millions, but can't spell Ponzi.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 01:19 PM
Inkfreak (112 posts)

10. The Melting Pot. $113.15
A fondue place, my wife & I went. It was a 3 course meal & frankly I wasn't impressed. My wife loved it tho. I hated that I had to cook my food at the table. That's the highest off the top of my head atm. Not a lot I suppose by some standards, but it was for me.

Chicks love The  Melting Pot. Must have been traumatic to remember the tab to the penny.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 02:24 PM
RILib (189 posts)

12. $20. Maybe for a major anniversary, $40.

I think this low-post DUmmy is a troll making fun of the DUmpmonkeys.

Or else he's the first one on this thread who's telling the truth.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 08:58 PM
progressoid (26,158 posts)

16. Well, the Olive Garden has a complete three course Italian meal for $12.50

Uh oh, time to duck and cover.

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 09:17 PM
Tobin S. (5,397 posts)

18. The most I've paid for dinner for two is $70.
And we had a $25 gift certificate so we kind of splurged a little. That included a filet mignon and four of the biggest deep fried shrimp I've ever seen for each of us. I mean those shrimp were like fish filets. We also had dessert.

DUmmy Tobin S. is a regular in the DUmp boobyhatch.

He had this lavish dinner in the deli at a Publix.







 











 

[RobJohnson]

Dummies enjoy plenty of "take and bake SNAP meals" at home compliments of the taxpayers.

[whiffleball]

DUmmie NRalieghLiberal may be telling the truth.  My guess is its talking about Fearrington Inn http://www.fearrington.com/house/menu.asp  Saying it's the best food around is way off base.  I've been a couple of times and have never found it particularly good.  It's overpriced haute cuisine and you leave hungry.  Much better to go to 42d Street http://www.42ndstoysterbar.com/   

[Skul]

I always thought that "fine dining" to a primitive, was bringing out the "good" plastic. 

[ChuckJ]

My idea of fine dining contains a combination of a good steak, good seafood, good mashed potatoes, good grits, and a few other things with simple to spell English names.

The most I've ever spent for fine dining for two is probably $70.

[thundley4]

I doubt if we ever spent more than $50-60 on a meal, but used to spend quite a bit more than that at bars. 

[GOBUCKS]

I'd have no problem sharing a restaurant with DUmmies if only they'd exercise the common courtesy of removing their stupid ballcaps, and maybe wearing socks.

[Skul]

I'd have no problem sharing a restaurant with DUmmies if only they'd exercise the common courtesy of removing their stupid ballcaps, and maybe wearing socks.

...and bathe.

[ChuckJ]

I'd have no problem sharing a restaurant with DUmmies if only they'd exercise the common courtesy of removing their stupid ballcaps, and maybe wearing socks.

Since the signs only say "no shirt, no shoes, no service" and make no mention of pants I keep expecting to see one walk in one day showing his lack of testicles.

[Skul]

Since the signs only say "no shirt, no shoes, no service" and make no mention of pants I keep expecting to see one walk in one day showing his lack of testicles.

What if one of them is a DUmp "female"? 

[longview]

...and bathe.

And not talk politics loudly with their mouths full.  

[ChuckJ]

What if one of them is a DUmp "female"? 

That would probably be an extreme sanitation violation.

Remember Pigpen from Charlie Brown? For some reason I get the feeling some may think they were smuggling Pigpen.

[franksolich]

Oh man.

I am so far out of the mainstream, walking along the shore, not even getting my shoes wet.

As a common practice, I usually spend about $5.00-6.00 on fine dining.

There's been a few cases in my life I've splurged up to $13.95 or something, but those instances can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

With the femme, and hence two people, it's a little different.  Maybe thirty, thirty-five, bucks, but no more than that, whether I'm paying or she's paying.  It's not that I steer her towards cheap eateries; in fact, I have no say in the matter.  She picks the place.

[JohnnyReb]

My idea of fine dining contains a combination of a good steak, good seafood, good mashed potatoes, good grits, and a few other things with simple to spell English names.

The most I've ever spent for fine dining for two is probably $70.

....and I was on vacation then.

[Skul]

And not talk politics loudly with their mouths full.  

Not gonna happen. They can't keep their mouths shut even when there isn't food in it. 

Coach needs to run down this way, and visit a local road-side cafe I go to.
They have a chicken-fried steak to kill for.
I can only eat the small one. The regular would feed a family of four.
Cost of the small is ten bucks with three sides to go along with it.

[DLR Pyro]

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:51 AM
Angry Dragon (23,731 posts)

1. Once spent about $150 in Rancho Mirage
but it was a gift certificate

no you didn't spend $150.00 in Rancho Mirage, somebody else spent $150.00 to buy you the gift card and you redeemed it in Rancho Mirage. 

[Dori]

It seems like dining out isn't my thing anymore.  All my old favorites are gone and their replacements just don't have the quality or taste they used to.

Around here it costs a small fortune to eat out and everything is priced separately.  Nothing extra comes with the entree anymore.  

[GOBUCKS]

Since the signs only say "no shirt, no shoes, no service"

Pro tip: If at all possible, avoid restaurants that see a need for that sign.

The only worse indicator is a sign on the door that says "No colors inside".

[Chris_]

The most I've ever spent was a little over $100, but the two of us ate and drank like pigs.

It was worth it.

[NHSparky]

Even the local places are getting to the point you can't get out for close to $100.  Example--the dinner I took Scoobie to a couple of weeks ago.  She and I split an appetizer, each had a steak that ran us each $20 or so, she had a glass of wine, I had a beer.  Total with tip was just over $80.  If we go out with the kids it's to Buffalo Wild Wings and it's not much cheaper for four.

Most expensive, however, would have been when I took Scoobs to NYC a little over a year ago.  Smith and Wollensky's.  $250 plus tip.  NOT something I would do very often at all, although if/when we ever get some time/money I'd love to take her to Vegas.  Ah, Delmonico's...

[ChuckJ]

Pro tip: If at all possible, avoid restaurants that see a need for that sign.

The only worse indicator is a sign on the door that says "No colors inside".

I never really noticed signs much until I got turned away from a Shoney's when I was younger. We had spent the morning working in a place that required me to wade through knee deep mud and water.

At lunch, since my work boots were soaked and muddy I took them and my socks off so I wouldn't track water. The girl that was doing the seating turned me around as soon as I walked in the door and told me that I couldn't come in without shoes.

I went out to the truck and put my muddy, wet, nasty socks and boots back on. They had to follow behind me with a mop, but I had shoes on.

[Carl]

Who are they kidding,they are the ones to eat a full meal and then bitch about something to try to get the restaurant to comp it.

[Tucker]

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 01:19 PM
Inkfreak (112 posts)

10. The Melting Pot. $113.15

He knew, to the penny, exactly how much he spent. 

Doesn't my benefactor, W8liftinglady, have lunch with the girlz at one of those high class restaurants once a week
?

This was before she got a job.

[Big Dog]

That thread is an excellent example of the divide between the "Have DUmmies" and the "Have-Not Dummies". I expect kpete to trump everyone with a story of her weekly $500 dinner eating raw oysters off of a naked Mexican gardener.

Me, I've had expensive meals poorly made, and inexpensive meals which were tasty and satisfying. I love roadhouses, diners, holes-in-the-wall, and places where the locals eat.

[LC EFA]

Ya'know, for a bunch of people who are constantly crying about poverty and "the rich" they sure do seem to have a surplus of disposable income.

Perhaps they'd look a tad less contradictory if they were to dine-in on vegan-chilli more often and donate their spare cash to a worthy cause. It looks better than rather than eating some gaudy shit at a dressed up yuppiehut full of other pretentious wankers and bitching about how the rich are oppressing the poor.

Just myself, I consider a perfectly cooked camp-oven roast around an open fire some-place in the great outdoors to be about the finest dining that one can have.