Wow.

[Sandiercy]

Easily the largest bill I have ever seen. Found it on the internet. It is for 6 people!

[Salted Grump]

12 dollars for one glass of water. What in the blue thundering fuck?
(I find it somewhat amusing that a cappuccino costs 9$ there)

[Sheldonrs]

Here's the menu from that restaurant:

http://www.nellorestaurantnyc.com/menu.php

[sms001]

Saw that elsewhere fairly recently myself. The real kicker (for me) was that it's not even dinner, it's a late lunch.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Sheesh, talk about a pricey place. The $9 cappuccino is amusing, as is the $18 for a cup of vegetable soup (minestrone di verde, veggie soup with pesto).


I think what amuses me the most from that bill is the breakdown before taxes and tip
$35,000 on alcohol but only $1,641 on actual food.

At $5,000 per bottle, that works out to about $1000 per glass.

[AccountingDrone]

A rather indifferent middle of the road italian restaurant with outrageous prices.

On that note, I got given the bible of modernist cuisine in ebook form as a christmas/birthday present. With a little tweaking, I will be able to make pretty much anything I can find the lab equipment for. I already know how to safely handle liquid nitrogen. We won't have to get stuck with some outragous bill for eating a few ounces of puff, powder and gel instead of a nice thick steak and an arthichoke...

[Monterey Jack]

That lunch would pay my grocery bills for the next SEVENTY YEARS.

[wolfie]

That lunch would pay my grocery bills for the next SEVENTY YEARS.

How do you get your grocery bill down to around $700/year? If I were to, 3 times per day, get what's (for me) an expensive meal at a truck stop restaurant, that lunch would pay to feed me for over 2 years.

[Catwoman2965]

It's NYC - so I'm not at all surprised. Prices there are outrageous, esp when compared to other areas of the country. I'm in NJ; not too far from here, and while there are plenty of pricy places by me, nothing like this. And when I visit my mom in VA, dinner out is way less than it would cost up here.

[Monterey Jack]

How do you get your grocery bill down to around $700/year? If I were to, 3 times per day, get what's (for me) an expensive meal at a truck stop restaurant, that lunch would pay to feed me for over 2 years.

I was exaggerating to a degree, but I rarely eat out more than once or maybe twice a week, only order takeout once in a while as a treat, and subsist on frozen foods and the like because I can't cook. My average "lunch" at work when I take a break consists of a butter crossaint, a small bottle of water with a tube of flavoring added, and maybe a small package of fig newtons or a fiber bar. Costs under $2.50 with my employee discount. I make very little money (on average under $12,000 a year), so I have to pinch pennies any way I can, so if I want money for luxuries like movie tickets, books and Blu-Rays, I have to eat crap. The money for that bill would feed me, if not for seventy years, then at least for a decade or more.

[Sandiercy]

Hell, the tip on that bill would have fed me for many months.

[Teefies2]

Wait, what??

The bill itself was outrageous ... albeit, they ordered that stuff knowing what it would cost. I was gonna comment on that, and then I got to the end of the thread where someone said they make about $1200 per year. I'm sorry, what? How the heck do you survive on that? I make $18,000 a year, get a small amount of food stamps ($70 a month for my family of four) and I cannot afford to eat out more than twice a month (if that, depending on what unexpected expenses we might have that month)!

I don't live in a city, but a rural area, and it's tough for me to make ends meet on my salary. Do you really only make $1200 a year, or was that a typo and it should be at least (I hope!) $12,000 a year?

I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to wrap my mind around the fact that people can survive on that income.

[corwin02]

Mind you this is in Euro's so in U$ it would be 145,254.=

[sms001]

Mind you this is in Euro's so in U$ it would be 145,254.=

Well, yeah. Ya start throwing Jeroboams & Methuselahs of Dom around, things is gonna get pricey.

I was curious so I did the math, Monterey, and at our current budget, that first ticket would feed my wife and me for almost 13 1/2 years.

[Monterey Jack]

I don't live in a city, but a rural area, and it's tough for me to make ends meet on my salary. Do you really only make $1200 a year, or was that a typo and it should be at least (I hope!) $12,000 a year?

Yes, I just noticed the typo...it's $12,000 a year. To me, when I hear people complaining about having to survive on "only" $20,000 a year or more, I would personally consider that luxurious living.