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A graphic about America’s Most Expensive Restaurants (via Gadling): I’m surprised that Del Posto is on there and I wonder why they left out Masa!

After reading this, I feel like I am too accustomed to New York $$$ goggles because my jaw doesn’t drop open after seeing the prices. After all, this is the land of $16 laundry detergent (I’m not even talking about the fancy stuff!).

New York, future home, you’re going to break me, aren’t you? You’re going to take away my love, aren’t you? I’m so used to being a poor graduate student that I can’t ever imagine having the money for even the prix fixe meals. I can’t imagine having that kind of a job.

Fancier places tend to have fancier wine/drink lists. I’d be curious to see what the average price is without bottles of wine at several hundred dollars.

My friends who have gone to French Laundry tell me the most ridiculous stories.

example 1: we got the optional prehistoric dig salt from Montana; it was $20 for a tiny dish of it. (I don’t remember the actual name of it, but it was some ancient Montanan minerally salt. for $20)

example 2: he got the optional white truffle pasta for $80 and it took three servers to serve it! One to hold the plate, one to hold the grater, and one to grate the white truffle over it.

The manfriend was talking to me about Per Se the other day. He says he really doesn’t understand the “point” of going there when we can get food that’s just as good at Nougatine/Cafe Boulud/*insert other places with awesome prix fixe here*. We’re thinking of going to 11 Madison Park, it’s supposed to be good. 

But yeah, I’m wondering if they included the cost of wine here, because some bottles can be astronomical. 

I don’t get how Per Se has a $300 prix fixe when some of Jean Georges’ restaurants have a $28 one (though to be fair, that’s for lunch, I think it’s $50-something for dinner). 

The bottom left corner says they did it by average check prices, so that’s got to include at least some bottles.