Fancy Pants Restaurants

Jason P
Jason P Posts: 19,327
edited June 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone ever been taken out to a nice fancy restaurant and when they bring out your $100+ entrée, all you can think to yourself is that you would trade it for an In-and-Out Burger in an instant?

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,745
    do they make you wear a tie in addition to the fancy pants?
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    mickeyrat wrote:
    do they make you wear a tie in addition to the fancy pants?
    Yeah ... but it's a tie I knotted 15 years ago and keep reusing... suckers

    :P
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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    No :lol:
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,396
    I've come home from such restaurants and watched $100 turds swirl down the bowl. :shock:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yeah! And typically it's more about the fancy-pants ambience than the food.

    (still, does a meal costing a hundred bucks taste THAT much better than one costing a half or a third of it?)

    We're fans of the good-meal-delivered-home route. No annoying people around, no snootiness, no fancy-pants. Hell we can just do NO pants from home!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
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    Anyone who wouldn't trade that for a slice of hand tossed pizza?
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  • jason
    jason Posts: 468
    As a person who frequents Burger King and Taco Bell, a fancy pants place I am not one to attend often. However, I have been to a few and besides the dress-up aspect of it. The place is usually dark and boring as its full of yuppies. Then you look at the prices - $50 for a side of corn??? I ordered a meal once with steak and potato. Not crazy pricy, but around $50 for the plate. Very good, but when I left I went to McDonald's as I was still VERY hungry. Would rather go to Applebee's or something. More bang for the buck!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Once at a bar, my boss ordered a round of shots for the group ... $100 Scotch shots ... I offered the bartender to put it back in the bottle and we could split the $100 but he wouldn't do it :twisted:
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I went to one (semi) fancy pants place, there was a show included as well, so I didn't feel like I was amongst snooty-ness.

    I found out I don't know which fork is which. (but they did know how to cook salmon properly)
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    RKCNDY wrote:
    I went to one (semi) fancy pants place, there was a show included as well, so I didn't feel like I was amongst snooty-ness.

    I found out I don't know which fork is which. (but they did know how to cook salmon properly)
    When I moved from the midwest to San Francisco ... my company catered a very nice meal for a party and I had to ask someone what the pink stuff was ... I'd never had / seen salmon before ... they thought I was joking

    I wasn't :oops:
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Any chance the monocle ever makes a comeback?

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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    I've been to Good ones and Bad ones, but when there Good, there FUCK GOOD!
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Jason P wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    I went to one (semi) fancy pants place, there was a show included as well, so I didn't feel like I was amongst snooty-ness.

    I found out I don't know which fork is which. (but they did know how to cook salmon properly)
    When I moved from the midwest to San Francisco ... my company catered a very nice meal for a party and I had to ask someone what the pink stuff was ... I'd never had / seen salmon before ... they thought I was joking

    I wasn't :oops:

    That's okay...went to a Social D show with VIP tix @ the Showbox, and the appetizers they had were 'higher end'...I had no idea what the brown stuff in the bowl was, it had a black jelly like stuff on top. Duck Liver Pate.

    it was really good.
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  • jason
    jason Posts: 468
    Sounds like I need to win the lottery so I can enjoy the higher end entrees, instead of my Happy Meal.

    GUH!!!!
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Jason P wrote:
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    Anyone who wouldn't trade that for a slice of hand tossed pizza?
    Gary Danko's?
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  • DURP
    DURP OhighO Posts: 2,180
    Jason P wrote:
    Anyone ever been taken out to a nice fancy restaurant and when they bring out your $100+ entrée, all you can think to yourself is that you would trade it for an In-and-Out Burger in an instant?

    :fp:

    Yes Ruth Chris Steakhouse. Most overpriced place I have ever been and the steak sucked I can run circles around them cooking steak. Waste of time and money will never ever go again next time I will fire up the grill and buy a good steak and make it my way.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jason P wrote:
    Any chance the monocle ever makes a comeback?

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,781
    I like Pace's steak house where i live reasonable prices and the food is outstanding they serve a chilled crab meat appetizer that is sick and their meats are tops ....you do have to dress nice not suit & tie but no shorts and T's ...
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    I like good restaurants. But there's no way in hell I'm going to a chain restaurant and paying 150 plus for 2 people. F Ruth Chris

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