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The most you've paid for a meal?

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  • #32
    workaccount
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭workaccount


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Why do we put up with this?

    What choice do we have though?

    I don't put lots of money into these sort of enterprises myself and tend to stretch my euros anyway I can.

    Alot of my stuff is sourced on the internet alot cheaper than bricks and mortars in Ireland.

    What do you do to keep your money away from rip off business'?


  • #33
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭castie


    320 euro for two in a posh Venetian Hotel on the Grand Canal.

    Proper Italian thought so there was alot more courses then you would get here.


  • #34
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    €15,000.

    Killed a hooker on the way there, legal fees are a b!tch.


  • #35
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    workaccount wrote: »
    What do you do to keep your money away from rip off business'?

    Well I haven't been in Ireland for a while, but when I was there - I shopped in Aldi and Lidl, cycled to work instead of paying outrageous road tax/insurance, only drank in pubs with decent priced drinks, and yeah I bought a lot of clothes/shoes on ebay too from the US and Europe.


  • #36
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭castie


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    About 180 - 200 euro I think.

    There's no point having it unless you can take a woman out and impress her a bit by flashing the cash around. And then unimpress her by never, ever spending that sort of money on her again!

    indeed you are truely wise.

    Let them know its there but that they cant have it :p


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  • #37
    unreggd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    was in a tony little Italian place in Picadilly Circus last september

    Had 1/2 glasses of juice, and plasticy chicken with pasta, and the bleedin bill was £80!

    about 60 yoyos each


  • #38
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #39
    WooPeeA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭WooPeeA


    £85 sandwich? Not yet but I am tempted to.. :pac:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4894952.stm


  • #40
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Eddie Rockets - 8 euro each.

    She never got back to me. :(


  • #41
    hussey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    $US240 for http://www.tkrg.org/upload/fl_menu.pdf
    or 95GBP for http://www.fatduck.co.uk/menu_alacarte.htm


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  • #42
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    I dropped about 240 on dinner for two, that would be the most expensive.


  • #43
    adsgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭adsgirl


    boneless wrote: »
    The most I ever spent on a meal? 17 years... I married her and am still paying even though we're seperated...

    No feckin wonder , with that attitude:eek:


  • #44
    barbiegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭barbiegirl


    I think about €140.00 in a little restaurant around the corner from the Trevi fountain in Rome. Beautiful.
    Girls are much more impressed with somewhere mid range where they can relax and be themselves rather than a fussy spot.


  • #45
    SheroN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭SheroN


    Spent 300 euro on a meal for two in a place in Paris. Food was only alright.

    It makes me laugh when people think spending say, 150 euro on a meal for two is crazy money. But yet the same people have no problem going out and spending a hundred euro drinking on a night.


  • #46
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    I went on a blind date with a really hot blonde girl
    to a very posh Dublin feed house.
    I was uber drunk and **** myself while sitting at the table.
    cost of meal € my dignity


  • #47
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    I paid €180 for tea for three once! Well, it was afternoon tea, which included sandiches and cakes etc, but still only a very small snack. It was in the Burj Al Arab - the 7 Star Hotel in Dubai.

    Totally worth it


  • #48
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    MIN2511 wrote: »
    Do you have a problem with that??? Last time i checked there's nawt wrong with it:P



    Okay dude i may be laughing but i think thats way OTT:mad:

    You saw the joke then became offended. You confuse me.


  • #49
    BurnsCarpenter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭BurnsCarpenter


    $500 for 2 in Vancouver.
    $60 of that was for the optional cheese course. :o
    In for a penny and all that.


  • #50
    Glowing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Glowing


    This is somewhere I plan on spending a fortune in ... someday ...!

    http://www.elbulli.com/


  • #51
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Eddie Rockets - 8 euro each

    €8? what did you share a drink or something?

    Spent €160 for two in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Marriott, Times Sqaure. Was nice, even though the duck salad had no duck.


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  • #52
    MIN2511
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    You saw the joke then became offended. You confuse me.


    I confuse myself:confused:

    Don't worry;) as long as it was a joke am fine... :D


  • #53
    gaz wac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭gaz wac


    €575 for the two of us, also in Shanahans on the Green. Easy to get through when your having champers, starters ( didnt know about the bread!!), main course, afters and a couple of bottles of wine with the dinner!! never again, not worth the hype, rib eye in Town Bar & Grill or ostrich in Tante Zoes much better imo.


  • #54
    SheroN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭SheroN


    gaz wac wrote: »
    €575 for the two of us, also in Shanahans on the Green. Easy to get through when your having champers, starters ( didnt know about the bread!!), main course, afters and a couple of bottles of wine with the dinner!! never again, not worth the hype, rib eye in Town Bar & Grill or ostrich in Tante Zoes much better imo.

    Shanahans is for rich American tourists (and Gerry Ryan).


  • #55
    MIN2511
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    gaz wac wrote: »
    €575 for the two of us, also in Shanahans on the Green. Easy to get through when your having champers, starters ( didnt know about the bread!!), main course, afters and a couple of bottles of wine with the dinner!! never again, not worth the hype, rib eye in Town Bar & Grill or ostrich in Tante Zoes much better imo.


    I have never been to Shanahans(not yet, no one wants to bring me:() but Town bar & Grill is brilliant!!! I know a few people who have been to both places and they think the Town Bar & Grill is better(especially for steaks-medium rare with their house red wine;))
    Another place to go to is Darwin's on Aungier st; very nice!


  • #56
    gaz wac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭gaz wac


    MIN2511 wrote: »
    I have never been to Shanahans(not yet, no one wants to bring me:() but Town bar & Grill is brilliant!!! I know a few people who have been to both places and they think the Town Bar & Grill is better(especially for steaks-medium rare with their house red wine;))
    Another place to go to is Darwin's on Aungier st; very nice!

    Dont get me wrong, the steak in Shanahans is lovely, and their reputation is well deserved but Town's rib eye is mouth watering hmmmmmmm rib eye :)


  • #57
    dreamr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭dreamr


    i have no problem spending over €120 on drink a night, but i dont think i've paid over €50 for a meal...


  • #58
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    Stayed in a hotel didnt and didn't realize that the breakfast wasn't included. Sauntered into the buffet had a full irish herself had a rasher sambo. Went to checkout and we got charged 40 euro each. 40 fuppin euro for a rasher sambo, the bastards.

    Spent about €340 for a meal for two in The Cellar Restaurant in Merrion Square it was gorjass. The seafood platter I got for my starter could have fed 4. Champagne and beeeyoooshiful bottle of shiraz with the fillet steak for mains.. ah it was good. plus, was able to put it on the company credit card hehe.

    Spent 250 or somethin in shanahans too... it was nice but wasn't worth it.


  • #59
    Solarball10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Solarball10


    I think it was €90 for a dinner for 2 (starters, mains and bottle of wine) in Sinners Restaurant (Lebanese) in Dublin. Really nice!


  • #60
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    boneless wrote: »
    The most I ever spent on a meal? 17 years... I married her and am still paying even though we're seperated...

    he wins (and i thought my 40 euro rasher sambo was bad... )


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gaz wac wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong, the steak in Shanahans is lovely, and their reputation is well deserved but Town's rib eye is mouth watering hmmmmmmm rib eye :)

    The rib eye there is fatty and not nice - have had it twice and was the same each time - just 'cos it's large in size doesn't make it good...


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