[On Offer *Now Expired*] - Booking for 2, Lunch @ Tetsuya's Feb 14 2009

[anat0l]

Dining at a place where the mains are >> $30 a piece is not about simply shoving food in your mouth. It's all about (trying!) to enjoy the food and its flavours, conversation with good friend(s), a great atmosphere (in probably an expensive district). You pay more for where you bum is sitting and how long it does so rather than how much actually gets put on a plate in front of you.

Well, at least I think that's the "definition answer" anyway. I know how I'd be trying to enjoy a ~$300 degustation with wines at Tetsuya's, 'cos by anyone's measure that is not cheap.

I guess you can liken this situation to purchasing Business class. Both classes will get you from A to B, just one has a better seat, nicer environment, slightly better food (debatable) and the FAs treat you less like cattle, yet the price tag is typically eight-fold of Economy.

 

[oz_mark]

Dining at a place where the mains are >> $30 a piece is not about simply shoving food in your mouth. .

So that's where i go wrong )

 

[Hawkeye]

Hmmm. Any restaurant with main meals priced over $30 is way overpriced.

JohnK, would you be prepared to pay a decent sum of money to play on some of the great golf courses of the world e.g. Augusta, St Andrews, Pebble Beach? Whilst your local will be the regular venue, every now and then you must lash out for that special round.

For foodies, these restaurants are the true "big night out" affairs - the freshest produce cooked to perfection, balance of flavours, varied textures, all combined with great wine. And presented with flare and artistry. Yum!

I would not suggest visiting Vue de Monde in Melbourne - you will not walk out with change from $800 a couple, even with modest wine selections.

 

[NM]

Dining at a place where the mains are >> $30 a piece is not about simply shoving food in your mouth. .

So that's where i go wrong

ok, I'll be the bunny to ask the obvious question. Just where do you shove the food?

 

[oz_mark]

ok, I'll be the bunny to ask the obvious question. Just where do you shove the food?

I do shove it in my mouth! Didn't realise there was more!

 

[opusman]

Hmmm. Any restaurant with main meals priced over $30 is way overpriced.


I have read through this thread a couple of times now and I have not heard of any of the restaurants recommended here and I have lived in Sydney for over 36 years now.

Maybe you should stop going to mcdonalds and get out more

 

[opusman]

I would not suggest visiting Vue de Monde in Melbourne - you will not walk out with change from $800 a couple, even with modest wine selections.

Amen to that. Bill for 3 last time I went was $1300 (included some very expensive wine, it must be said.)

I still reckon Tets is great value for what you get. V.d.M - less so - it's an experience worth having once, but I wouldn't rush to go back again. Tets, however, I would go once a week if I could

 

[JohnK]

Maybe you should stop going to mcdonalds and get out more

I don't eat at McDonalds. I prefer to eat home cooked meals and since I have been working in Brisbane I enjoy trying to cook for myself.

So called "Good food" is wasted on me anyway. I don't see any difference in the taste between a $17 steak or $37 steak.

I remember going to Angelo's in Concord/Canada Bay for a work Christmas function in 1987. I ordered a steak and waited over half an hour for it to arrive. Out came this huge plate with this tiny piece of steak, around the size of a 50c piece, with some lettuce leaves. I cut the steak in half and was lucky to get two mouthfuls from it. Can't remember what I paid but it was definitely not worth it and I said never again.

Another time back in the 90's went to a trendy place on the corner of Oxford Street and Flinders Street in Darlinghurst, the name escapes me, and as I was not paying, work function, I ordered entree and main meal. Same old story, huge plates with not enough food on the plate to satisfy a 2 year old baby. There were 2 or 3 of us still hungry after the meal and one of them actually went to McDonalds across the road to get something to eat before coming back to join us at the table.

I honestly do not understand how anyone can call that fine dining....

 

[drron]

Tetsuyas is certainly one of the must dos in Australia for fine dining.I am glad I have been but it really was not to my taste.I cant imagine going back.Claudes has been my favourite in sydney.
Although I have not been to the French Laundry we did go to his NYC place Per Se.I certainly would go back though in NYC i prefer La Bernadin another of the 4 NYC restaurants in the highest Michelin category.
I have looked at the El Bulli menu and have decided it is not for me.
Of the restaurants we have been to ranked in the top 100 in most lists my favourite though was La Pergola in Rome-treated like royalty.
However on the Sunny Coast it is Stillwater-a very reasonably priced japanese restaurant that does from time to time have the afore mentioned Tetsuya as a patron.

 

[simongr]

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I remember going to Angelo's in Concord/Canada Bay for a work Christmas function in 1987. I ordered a steak and waited over half an hour for it to arrive. Out came this huge plate with this tiny piece of steak, around the size of a 50c piece, with some lettuce leaves. I cut the steak in half and was lucky to get two mouthfuls from it. Can't remember what I paid but it was definitely not worth it and I said never again.

Another time back in the 90's went to a trendy place on the corner of Oxford Street and Flinders Street in Darlinghurst, the name escapes me, and as I was not paying, work function, I ordered entree and main meal. Same old story, huge plates with not enough food on the plate to satisfy a 2 year old baby. There were 2 or 3 of us still hungry after the meal and one of them actually went to McDonalds across the road to get something to eat before coming back to join us at the table.

I honestly do not understand how anyone can call that fine dining....

You should remember that the late 80's/early nineties was a period at the end of nouvelle cuisine when true fine dining had moved on from that but the next tier of restaurants were adopting it with a true understanding of the techniques and method behind it thus instead of getting simple lighter meals beautifully presented you got a chance to cut down on portion size and increase profits.

Personally after degustations in Aria, Quay (sort of a degustation), Rockpool (disappointing food), Tets, Bennelong, Maze (London) and Purnells (Birmingham) I have never been hungry...

 

[NM]

I remember going to Angelo's in Concord/Canada Bay for a work Christmas function in 1987. I ordered a steak and waited over half an hour for it to arrive. Out came this huge plate with this tiny piece of steak, around the size of a 50c piece, with some lettuce leaves. I cut the steak in half and was lucky to get two mouthfuls from it. Can't remember what I paid but it was definitely not worth it and I said never again.

Waiter: How did you find your steak, sir?
JohnK: I moved the lettuce leaf and there it was hiding beneath :shock:

 

[Flashback]

This thread can probably be closed, the rude person from AFF knows who they are and the event has now passed.

 

[Junji]

This thread can probably be closed, the rude person from AFF knows who they are and the event has now passed.

Did someone take the booking and not turn-up? Hope they don't charge for that.