good point - when we go as a group of 4-5 people it ends up reasonable per person
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If I were there with two people I’d still order less than $100 per person.
| ham bing | 32 |
| tomatoes | 21 |
| potatoes | 19 |
| duck rice | 51 |
| pork | 53 |
| waffle | 20 |
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Does anyone actually walk out of here paying less than $100pp tho? After 2 drinks. tax, and tips this budget is blown.
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I couldn’t believe the prices the one time I went recently, mentioned it above. other than the fries, it was not worth it compared to other restaurants at similar prices I went to.
Wagyu was not worth it whatsoever… for those prices I’m expecting to be wow’d and it was just good. As people mentioned ^ I’ll go to Kali or a tasting menu over this.
crab salad ($22, great but small portion)
mushroom crispy rice ($48, very good, but not worth the price)
wagyu (83 think it was less when I went… bad. Felt very plain and bland for the price point, nothing unique or memorable. fries were great)
pavlova (19, good, but again not worth $20)
that’s nearly $200. Would much rather get a $150 tasting menu elsewhere
tax and 20% tip that’s $111. And that’s way less than we order with 4 o_O
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And you eat it all? Yikes. I went with a party of 3 in 2019 and spent $387.42 total including at least two bottles of wine, tax, and tip.
2018 three of us spent $460 all in.
As a big fan of Majordomo I wouldn’t have ordered any of those except the pavlova, and if I spent $200 on food there the way I order it would be way too much food for one. I’ve spent not much over $100 (on food) by myself there and had lots of leftovers.
I was responding to Clayfu’s “i don’t think I’ve gotten out of there sub $150pp before (excluding alcohol)”
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Seemed like a lot of food to us. Bing, oxtail, tapioca, pork belly, and onion rings were filling, steak was big, like I said we didn’t have room for dessert.
why do you keep forgetting about tax and tip o_O. That’s almost $130pp right there.
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That’s still significantly less than the $150 you’ve never spent less than. I also posted total costs of actual meals.
Except for a few dishes, the place is expensive, but the only time I might have spent $150 per person on food was when two of us ordered enough food for four and took half as leftovers.
sorry I’m late
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duck rice and pork - thats a quite a bit of food for 2 people.
Yeah, there’s a good chance we’d not order either the pork or the waffle. I was just erring on the side of excess. I’d probably always order the kakigori if it were on the menu since it seems so light, at least until you’re halfway through eating it.
$256.89 is still 14% short of $150 per person. And even $150 is still cheaper than most if not all of the high-end tasting-menu places.
also 28% more than 100pp.
if you tell someone a restaurant is $150pp and it comes in at $128 everything is cool. If you tell someone a restaurant is “less than $100pp” and it comes in at $128 then that is less cool.
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Obviously ordering less than $100 per person can come out to over $100 when you add surcharge, tax, and tip, but surcharge, tax, and tip don’t total over 50%. I figured people could do that math.
Quibbling over calculations doesn’t change the reality that you have to go hard to spend more than $150 per person excluding alcohol.
I guess that’s true if your entire party is not gluttonous and drinks tap water.
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I guess by this board’s standards my friends and I aren’t gluttonous. My capacity isn’t what it was when I was a restaurant critic. Often we drink enough wine to make up for it.
Even the blowout meal where two of us ordered enough for four didn’t come to $150 per person, though it would these days.
| dish | price |
|---|---|
| oxtail | 21 |
| bing with hozon | 8 |
| Bounty Bowl | 15 |
| black cod | 35 |
| shrimp crispy rice | 44 |
| whole chicken with truffles | 88 |
| kakigori | 17 |
| 228 | |
| tip | 46 |
| 274 |
Here you go. Last receipt there. Party of 5.
Remove $360 from corkage and tequila
So $728 before tip. 20% tip results in $873.60. Divided by 5 $174.
Had leftovers of Gailan and chicken noodle soup and some chicken rice.
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A sample menu for 2 - it’s really not that difficult. And I would not classify the below menu as “going hard” either.
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You forgot to include the 65.5 cents per mile for the drive.
What’s with all you kooks paying for bottled still water?
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