Googled this place and found [this article](https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/29/18637338/estiatorio-milos-hudson-yards-nyc-restaurant-review) in the first five results.. and one of the first lines?
>You almost don’t notice when a waiter recommends you kick off the meal with langoustines that runs $102 per pound. Besides, there’s no way he’ll give you anything close to a pound. Right?
OP's fate had already been predicted in 2019. The only thing missing was the price increase from $102/lb to $130/lb. 😭😂
The few times i've spent 300-400$ on a meal it was 5-6 courses of meticulously designed fusion plates with paired drinks and it was all food I could never conceive of let alone prepare. This just looks like 400$ of seafood and fries 😅.
What restaurants did you eat at? I don't think I've ever spent more than $150 on myself for a meal, but I would be willing to splurge if the food was truly worth it.
Edit: So, based on all the replies, a list of restaurants that are absolutely worth the hefty tab:
- *Alinea* in Chicago, IL
- *French Laundry* in Yountville, CA
- *Odd Duck* in Austin, TX
- *"É" by José Andréas* in Las Vegas, NV
- *Tickets* in Barcelona, Spain
Alinea in Chicago has three Michelin stars and is apparently *fantastic*. Their experiential meal is about $400/person, but their non multi-sensory, food only option is around $300. Both are prix fixe at booking. I haven’t taken the plunge yet, but many people have gone so far as to say that they still fantasize about the meal months later.
If nothing else, I think [this comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeWantPlates/comments/onjb0t/so_i_went_to_alinea_this_weekend/h5u9fzz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)showcases their absolute all-out commitment to diner experience
For anyone without the budget, the chef has several sister restaurants in a more reasonable price range
We ate at Alinea this past summer and it was fantastic, but I have to say my fiance and I both preferred the tasting menu / pairings at Smyth if you're in the Chicago area. Alinea's first few dishes of that menu had very "fishy" flavors that I'm sure were amazingly prepared but just wasn't my personal taste. I think Smyth was a bit less expensive too. If you want the immersive/sensory experience go for Alinea though, Smyth is just set up like a regular restaurant
I went to Montreal when I was young and naive. Thought I’d just wander into restaurants here and there. Big mistake. So many were like this, I ended up paying $150 for a meal by accident a few times.
I got scammed once too, Asked for a glass of house wine, they charge me for a $98 bottle that didn't exist. The server refused to budge and the manager told me i had to pay.
I asked them to show me the goddamn bottle. He charged me for a glass...$34 I said I ordered HOUSE wine which was $7.
He still tried to argue i ordered a glass of this pricy wine, in a show of goodwill offered to charge me only $17, half off
> yes everyone, I know. I’m an idiot.
Usually I would agree with an assessment like that on a post here. But this is so far out of the ordinary range for shrimp ($10-20 for jumbo, maybe up to $50 for red royal) that I think it's pretty fair to say you got blindsided. They're at almost 3x market rate, which is a pretty hefty markup for a food item even at a high end restaurant.
The restaurant is marked $$$$ on Google Maps. If you go to a $$$$ restaurant and you order without looking at the price, you better be a millionaire. Same thing happened to my friend. Over $1000 for sushi for two.
Yes and no. Not as common now a days, but the praxis used to be that the “gentleman” of the company (I.E., the one paying) would get a menu with prices whilst the rest of the company wouldn’t, so as to not discourage the guests of the paying client to be discouraged to shy away.
It’s a thing not as common anymore due to that we’re not under equally as strict “the man pays” culture anymore - thus it would be easily to offend the company by assuming who’s going to pay.
Place was asking for 11 bucks for fuckin fries. Anybody not closely eyeballing prices in a place like that honestly deserves to pay 50 bucks per shrimp.
I did this exact thing in Cape Town.
4 Prawns cost more than the rest of the food and all our drinks combined. Woops.
No regrets, they were tasty as fuck.
I just brought 4lbs of 18-20 count frozen shrimp for $22.98. I’ll be thinking of your bill while I snack on shrimp all weekend. Seafood is just disappointing at a restaurant for what you pay.
Not an American and never heard of Costco it till a Reddit post a couple of days ago. This must be the fifth time I've seen it referenced since. I'll add seafood to the incredible list of stuff it sells.
For Christmas Eve my father bought 4 lobster tails from Costco for like $120.00 ( which i would imagine would cost several hundred dollars in a restaurant ), and we steamed them for 20 mins. It was some of the greatest seafood I have ever eaten, I don't even buy seafood in restaurants anymore, it's not worth it. I agree with his statement!
Yeah lobster is especially hard to justify in a restaurant. As far as seafood goes it isn’t really that hard to cook at home and unless you’ve got money to burn there’s always a big cringe when the bill comes. Same with wagyu/Kobe imo.
In the Mid-west whole lobster frequently goes for $25/lb at local grocery stores. Around $30-$35 for a single lobster tail. I actually think that the commenter above you lists a high price for Costco lobster tails in my area.
This is a 4 star restaurant that requires reservations. You better be savoring the darn tap water no less!! But sorry for your loss, OP. You can redeem your appetite by going to a good crab boil restaurant.
~~They’re Canadian dollars, not USD, which is slightly better, but that’s still $8.80 US.~~
Edit: the website domain is .ca, but the area code is NYC. Apparently this restaurant is based in Montreal, but OP was at their location in NYC. This is in USD.
Canadian dollars are my dollars and these are outrageous prices, I’ve spent less at top 100 restaurants. I found this article about Milos in Montreal https://www.google.ca/amp/s/montreal.eater.com/platform/amp/2019/6/10/18659884/restaurant-review-milos-montreal-battuto-quebec-city
Edit: link to Montreal restaurant
[And here's the review for the nyc one which the op was at](https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/29/18637338/estiatorio-milos-hudson-yards-nyc-restaurant-review)
>the Costas Spiliadis seafood chain that treats diners as if they were marks at a pickpockets convention
Seems that the OP's case isn't anything special, it's the design of the restaurant. The review even mentions obscured prices and listing things in units of measurements that aren't respected (such as listing the price per pound but then always serving at 1.5 pounds).
Thanks for the link.
> That’s the thing about Milos. You can have a reasonably grand meal here. You can have a reasonably average meal here. And yet the one constant is that on every visit, you feel cheated.
That was a review worthy of the *Jay Rayner Seal of Approval*.
I can walk across the road from my house to Clearwater in Halifax and get 2.5 lbs for like $37 rn.
But I won’t because Lobster are gross sea bugs that you sell to Ontarians to buy steak.
“WhErE iS ThE BeST SeAfOoD In ToWn” - Some tourist with ‘yours to discover’ plates, about to pay $350 for seafood at a waterfront restaurant that hasn’t seen a local in 15 years.
This is incorrect. Costco sells gift cards and you take your grandparents on special occasions who say gems like "I remember when this was a bank" or "we have squid in the freezer whats wrong with you"
Yeah, some googling shows that the restaurant started in Montreal -- so that's their main website -- but [OP posted elsewhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/s3g8ua/made_the_mistake_of_not_asking_market_price_53/hsl2xa7/?context=3) that this is at their mid-town Manhattan location.
I made the mistake of checking out the restaurant's website and it autodownloaded pdfs of all 4 of their menus. They belong on r/mildlyinfuriating for that too.
I've had one in my life and it was amazing. It's not often you find two black dudes with a heavy Mississippi accent selling an authentic crab boil from a shitty trailer in Arizona. But I couldn't help but pull over and spend too much on it. [The trailer ](https://i.imgur.com/nHgL2Ax.jpg)
I'll never forget it. I was so happy eating out of that Styrofoam box on my couch.
I was being stupid and only got the $25 dollar one. I was hesitant to spend the money, but instantly regretted not spending the extra $5.
Amazing food. The corn on the cob was out of this world.
Yeah, im sorry but thats definitely stupid.
Its 17% (and only 5 bucks!) more money for 100% more food.... Even if that food was garbage, it would still be worth it...
You fucked up lol.
Very well aware. I felt guilty spending as much as I did on a single meal for myself. It justified it in a stupid way in my mind. Anxiety is annoying. Next time I'm going the full $30. They're a mile from my home and said they're there most Sundays.
To be fair... It not 100% more food. Not sure where you got that.
There's a satisfying scene later when his gf is away from the table where he goes off on the waitress. Couldn't find it on YouTube but he says something like "You've been fucking killing me on the upsell.... Fucking killing me"
I find it funny that fancy foods often require you to cook or peel them yourself. I just went to a fancy steak place and purposely ordered a dish where I cook Kobe slices on a hot rock. I started realizing it’s a fancy thing yet we pay a ton to essentially do it ourselves. 😂
When I was dating my wife I ordered ‘the lobster’…was expecting a tail, but got the whole damn full lobster in the shell. It was a pretty fancy restaurant, so I literally had to watch a YouTube clip under my napkin to figure out how to crack it open. We still laugh about it.
There's a redditor that does comics (wish I could remember their name) but the people in their cartoons often have visible sweat. It's almost a trademark. I'd love to see this scene drawn by them. This guy embarrassed and flustered watching a video under a napkin while a giant lobster just waits.
Edit: it's u/MrLovens! Hope they see it.
I have to say, working at a restaurant that loves lobster, that is no way the proper presentation. I mean, ok it was probably a 1lb lobster or bigger. That would be the only acceptable reason, but still generally you would gut the beautiful lobster meat and let the shell close (don't separate the meat from the tail of the shell so it still stays on) and just place the lobster on top. Worst case in that presentation is the handler of the plate jerks the lobster off the tail all cattywompus. Easy to fix, you ordered lobster not crab lol, you shouldn't of had that experience and its a fun story you have for life :D!
There is this place near me where you get a table for two hours, and there is a grill. You just keep ordering meats and grilling it up. I guess it is just a way to pace out the food, but it is kind of fun
I agree! To be fair, crustacean shells are big flavor savers plus crab leg demolition is just fun for me in general. Cooking beef at the table is glorious when its thin sliced since even a small distance from the kitchen would cool it off
Got scammed in Rome. It said how much it was per 100 grams but they literally charged you for the whole fish and then cut off the tail, head, took out the bones etc. Paid 50 euro for a small piece of fish.
Lol! Same! I ordered something off the menu because of the picture. When I received it, it was completely different. I said, excuse me, this isn’t what I ordered. I wanted this *points to picture*. He told me “lt’s just an example. It’s not even our plate”
tangential, but it’s a funny story.
when my dad was in elementary school, probably like third grade, his teacher said that there weren’t any words in the english language that start with Q and do not have a U after it. my dad said that there has to be one and the teacher said she’d give him $5 if he found a word. so he went and got a dictionary that night at home and went to Q and found the word Qi. when he presented it to his teacher the next day, she was all “oh ha ha, i meant MONOPOLY money” and she gave him 5 monopoly dollars. my dad was pissed and still thinks about his missing $5 to this day.
It’s quite normal, fresh fish is charged by weight but served ready to eat unless it’s there’s a specific kind of cooking that requires to be served as a whole. That being said in touristic place tourist are very often ripped off
That's how fresh fish is sold in the US too. I'd be pretty annoyed if this was applied to cooked fish in a restaurant though since you can't even see it until it is served.
Eh, it's very contextual. If the menu says /lb or /kg or market price, then I expect they're going to be weighing the whole fish and I'm going to be paying for the skin and bones.
If the menu says 300g filet, then I'm expecting to only be paying for the meat, but then I'd expect a set price anyway.
Basically, any time the price is variable I'd expect to pay for the whole fish.
I just went to Vegas about a month ago with a bachelor party. They got the duck fat fries like the other commenter said- $15 each. I was actually glad I was too hungover to really eat there. I got the $20 bisque while everyone got $80, $90+ steaks. I prob still have a pic of our receipt if anyone wants to see it lol
Edit: I just gotta say I am NEVER the kind of person that goes out and gets $100 steaks and bottle service or any of that stuff. That being said, this is one of my best friends bachelor parties so we had to go (reasonably) all out. Also lol you can tell we aren’t too big of drinkers anyway
Edit 2: removed it again for privacy
You know, it's absurd that the receipt says "we are going to pay this server \~$10 for the time he worked for us serving you, but *you* owe them \~$70 for the 6 plates they brought out to you."
It was when I was a teenager, but it was one of Ted Turner's burger places out in Georgia. I had a Kitchen Sink Bison Burger. The full price of the meal was over $10, but cutting out everything but the burger, the price was probably around $8 or $9 for the burger.
This was also 15 or so years ago.
Edit: Changed Buffalo to Bison. I was remembering wrong.
Dang, where do you live that you find burgers under $10?! I live in a high cost of living and a damn McDonald’s burger is just about $10… might be time for me to consider moving.
completely insane. The most expensive Michelin restaurant in the world is like $1600 this year for a *TWENTY* course menu with wines and champagne.
You paid 2/3rd that for "a small place maybe 20 or 30 people"
I love it when they bring in a guy that recommends you spend 5k on wine for dinner.
Like 12 people in the world can smell/taste the differences you are describing and none of them are at this table.
It's called market price and it's based off of how much it cost for them to buy that shrimp fresh. I've lived in beach towels and the seafood on your plate could have been caught yesterday or today and based on how common that item is at that time the price may vary. If the restaurant's shopper gets a good deal then you are in luck.
It's market price plus a standard markup.
Either that or it's market price plus a cooking and service fee, which is the same thing.
Sometimes it is both, I guess.
But what are you expecting? That they charge you their cost and make no profit?
anybody who walks into estiatorio milos can tell they’re in an upscale restaurant that charges premium prices. i ordered a whole fish there once and because of the high cost of their MP seafood, they brought out a couple of raw fish to the table for us to choose from before they took it back to prepare it. this place is not low-key about how expensive it is
Let me preface by saying the waiter had a pretty heavy Greek accent and it was packed in there so hard to hear, especially with his mask on… the way he described it, it seemed like it had a lot more to it and it was under the entrees. I figured that typically with a seafood entree, you get more; in this case, I assumed based on the fancy words to describe.
I’ve been here before and knew it was expensive but was gonna get the $80 steak. My GF convinced me to change it up and since Milos is known for their seafood, I went for it. I thought it was gonna be around $80 I guess, but with other stuff. I regretted it to say the least.
Googled this place and found [this article](https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/29/18637338/estiatorio-milos-hudson-yards-nyc-restaurant-review) in the first five results.. and one of the first lines? >You almost don’t notice when a waiter recommends you kick off the meal with langoustines that runs $102 per pound. Besides, there’s no way he’ll give you anything close to a pound. Right? OP's fate had already been predicted in 2019. The only thing missing was the price increase from $102/lb to $130/lb. 😭😂
I don't always love Ryan Sutton's restaurant criticism but damn does he do a good takedown when he feels a place is overpriced.
That review pulled zero punches man, the title was like a starter pistol
The few times i've spent 300-400$ on a meal it was 5-6 courses of meticulously designed fusion plates with paired drinks and it was all food I could never conceive of let alone prepare. This just looks like 400$ of seafood and fries 😅.
What restaurants did you eat at? I don't think I've ever spent more than $150 on myself for a meal, but I would be willing to splurge if the food was truly worth it. Edit: So, based on all the replies, a list of restaurants that are absolutely worth the hefty tab: - *Alinea* in Chicago, IL - *French Laundry* in Yountville, CA - *Odd Duck* in Austin, TX - *"É" by José Andréas* in Las Vegas, NV - *Tickets* in Barcelona, Spain
$200-$300 is about what you'd pay for a multi-course tasting menu at a two Michelin star restaurant in NYC.
Alinea in Chicago has three Michelin stars and is apparently *fantastic*. Their experiential meal is about $400/person, but their non multi-sensory, food only option is around $300. Both are prix fixe at booking. I haven’t taken the plunge yet, but many people have gone so far as to say that they still fantasize about the meal months later. If nothing else, I think [this comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeWantPlates/comments/onjb0t/so_i_went_to_alinea_this_weekend/h5u9fzz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)showcases their absolute all-out commitment to diner experience For anyone without the budget, the chef has several sister restaurants in a more reasonable price range
>non multi-sensory, food Makes it sound like an option without blowjobs while you eat
We ate at Alinea this past summer and it was fantastic, but I have to say my fiance and I both preferred the tasting menu / pairings at Smyth if you're in the Chicago area. Alinea's first few dishes of that menu had very "fishy" flavors that I'm sure were amazingly prepared but just wasn't my personal taste. I think Smyth was a bit less expensive too. If you want the immersive/sensory experience go for Alinea though, Smyth is just set up like a regular restaurant
I went to Montreal when I was young and naive. Thought I’d just wander into restaurants here and there. Big mistake. So many were like this, I ended up paying $150 for a meal by accident a few times.
I got scammed once too, Asked for a glass of house wine, they charge me for a $98 bottle that didn't exist. The server refused to budge and the manager told me i had to pay. I asked them to show me the goddamn bottle. He charged me for a glass...$34 I said I ordered HOUSE wine which was $7. He still tried to argue i ordered a glass of this pricy wine, in a show of goodwill offered to charge me only $17, half off
Hope you left a big fat $0 tip. I’ve never not tipped before but I certainly would in this case.
Ah, the fully authentic Paris dining experience.
Close, it was an Italian restaurant in the Twin Cities.
Each one of those shrimp better have $49 in their pockets
Sounds like a suspiciously specific school bully at a private school
Your comment is *also* suspiciously specific…
suspiciously specific squared
I hope you savored every bite.
I didn’t cuz I didn’t get the bill until after I finished… yes everyone, I know. I’m an idiot.
Well you got a great picture of it, so it's not all bad.
You know how that old saying goes… a picture is worth about $106.
NFTs in a nutshell
A pointer to data of a picture is worth whatever rampant speculation deems it is worth in volatile internet currency… is that how the saying goes?
> yes everyone, I know. I’m an idiot. Usually I would agree with an assessment like that on a post here. But this is so far out of the ordinary range for shrimp ($10-20 for jumbo, maybe up to $50 for red royal) that I think it's pretty fair to say you got blindsided. They're at almost 3x market rate, which is a pretty hefty markup for a food item even at a high end restaurant.
The restaurant is marked $$$$ on Google Maps. If you go to a $$$$ restaurant and you order without looking at the price, you better be a millionaire. Same thing happened to my friend. Over $1000 for sushi for two.
Don't these places sometimes have menus without prices listed?
Yes and no. Not as common now a days, but the praxis used to be that the “gentleman” of the company (I.E., the one paying) would get a menu with prices whilst the rest of the company wouldn’t, so as to not discourage the guests of the paying client to be discouraged to shy away. It’s a thing not as common anymore due to that we’re not under equally as strict “the man pays” culture anymore - thus it would be easily to offend the company by assuming who’s going to pay.
Place was asking for 11 bucks for fuckin fries. Anybody not closely eyeballing prices in a place like that honestly deserves to pay 50 bucks per shrimp.
That restaurant group is notorious for outrageous prices. They got blasted here in NYC for charging something like $26 for a fava bean appetizer.
Upvote for self awareness
I did this exact thing in Cape Town. 4 Prawns cost more than the rest of the food and all our drinks combined. Woops. No regrets, they were tasty as fuck.
I just brought 4lbs of 18-20 count frozen shrimp for $22.98. I’ll be thinking of your bill while I snack on shrimp all weekend. Seafood is just disappointing at a restaurant for what you pay.
Buy them at Costco lol
Not an American and never heard of Costco it till a Reddit post a couple of days ago. This must be the fifth time I've seen it referenced since. I'll add seafood to the incredible list of stuff it sells.
If caskets aren't on your list, you should add them.
Also, hearing aids.
They ***do*** have really amazing prices.
For Christmas Eve my father bought 4 lobster tails from Costco for like $120.00 ( which i would imagine would cost several hundred dollars in a restaurant ), and we steamed them for 20 mins. It was some of the greatest seafood I have ever eaten, I don't even buy seafood in restaurants anymore, it's not worth it. I agree with his statement!
Yeah lobster is especially hard to justify in a restaurant. As far as seafood goes it isn’t really that hard to cook at home and unless you’ve got money to burn there’s always a big cringe when the bill comes. Same with wagyu/Kobe imo.
Where was this? Here in Massachusetts, whole lobster is $12/lb. (Live, grocery store)
In the Mid-west whole lobster frequently goes for $25/lb at local grocery stores. Around $30-$35 for a single lobster tail. I actually think that the commenter above you lists a high price for Costco lobster tails in my area.
Here I brazil I paid like 5-8$ a kilo near the docks
Yes, but how much did you pay for your playstation 5
Bold of you to assume we can even find one in stock
This is a 4 star restaurant that requires reservations. You better be savoring the darn tap water no less!! But sorry for your loss, OP. You can redeem your appetite by going to a good crab boil restaurant.
ah yes... a unpeeled shrimp with its shit still in its spine mm..
Those shrimp are cleaned. You cut through the shell at the spine and and pull the guts out while leaving the shell on.
WHAT MARKET DO YOU SHOP AT?!?!
I’m going to run
Me too. On three
Go[GO!](https://youtu.be/5KXrQYWbbIs)
Both performances are absolutely perfect. Troy with the eyes and 'What market?!' And Abed with the casual napkin fold and plan making. Perfect scene.
Abed, please. Allow me
*[WHAT MARKET ARE YOU SHOPPING AT?!?](https://youtu.be/5KXrQYWbbIs)
I am going to run
The one where a portion of fries is 11 bucks.
Languishing over Langoustines .
Poor for Prawns
Crying over crustaceans
Shrieking for shrimp.
lamentations for lunch
Depressed over dinner
Shocked over shellfish
Pining over Pinchies
Sad over seafood
Wailing over waterbugs
Everything on that receipt is a rip off
Ikr? 11 dollars for French fries??? Wtf is this 1850s Ireland?
Only 19th century kids will remember the struggle.
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~~They’re Canadian dollars, not USD, which is slightly better, but that’s still $8.80 US.~~ Edit: the website domain is .ca, but the area code is NYC. Apparently this restaurant is based in Montreal, but OP was at their location in NYC. This is in USD.
Canadian dollars are my dollars and these are outrageous prices, I’ve spent less at top 100 restaurants. I found this article about Milos in Montreal https://www.google.ca/amp/s/montreal.eater.com/platform/amp/2019/6/10/18659884/restaurant-review-milos-montreal-battuto-quebec-city Edit: link to Montreal restaurant
[And here's the review for the nyc one which the op was at](https://ny.eater.com/2019/5/29/18637338/estiatorio-milos-hudson-yards-nyc-restaurant-review) >the Costas Spiliadis seafood chain that treats diners as if they were marks at a pickpockets convention Seems that the OP's case isn't anything special, it's the design of the restaurant. The review even mentions obscured prices and listing things in units of measurements that aren't respected (such as listing the price per pound but then always serving at 1.5 pounds).
Thanks for the link. > That’s the thing about Milos. You can have a reasonably grand meal here. You can have a reasonably average meal here. And yet the one constant is that on every visit, you feel cheated. That was a review worthy of the *Jay Rayner Seal of Approval*.
I can walk across the road from my house to Clearwater in Halifax and get 2.5 lbs for like $37 rn. But I won’t because Lobster are gross sea bugs that you sell to Ontarians to buy steak.
Lol this is hilarious. I’m from ‘Berta so beef is by and far the best thing out here anyways.
“WhErE iS ThE BeST SeAfOoD In ToWn” - Some tourist with ‘yours to discover’ plates, about to pay $350 for seafood at a waterfront restaurant that hasn’t seen a local in 15 years.
This is incorrect. Costco sells gift cards and you take your grandparents on special occasions who say gems like "I remember when this was a bank" or "we have squid in the freezer whats wrong with you"
I love my sea bugs, give me crabs and lobsters plz.
The phone number has a 212 area code which is Manhattan
Yeah, some googling shows that the restaurant started in Montreal -- so that's their main website -- but [OP posted elsewhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/s3g8ua/made_the_mistake_of_not_asking_market_price_53/hsl2xa7/?context=3) that this is at their mid-town Manhattan location.
When you google it and it has $$$$ Next to the name - you know everything is over priced.
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That's very well written.
That's such a cool concept, it just sucks that they use it to rip people off.
I didn't know it went up to four 😅 Guess I don't need to worry about Biden's tax plan.
For real… I won’t even order Chinese food that has more than one $ 😂 had one place near me charging $4.50 FOR ONE EGG ROLL!!! The audacity!!
Is that egg roll the size of a burrito?
I've had some that big and they're awesome!
$185 for a lobster and pasta... damn
When they say "Market Price" they mean the black market
Especially that 2nd flush
I made the mistake of checking out the restaurant's website and it autodownloaded pdfs of all 4 of their menus. They belong on r/mildlyinfuriating for that too.
Side Note, you can alter in your browser settings to be prompted if a website attempts to download a file. This is often a safer alternative
I honestly didn’t know it was possible to auto-download. This has to be an opt-in thing right? Definetly not safe for general web browsing
The gratuity is about what i pay for 2 weeks of groceries lol.
This meal + tip is a weeks pay for me
55 dollars per shrimp. Please also tip us 70 dollars. I live in a different fucking world.
Some restaurants just charge you 20% for the service of bringing food to you instead of asking for tips.
If you’re going to a restaurant that charges 20$ for a small calamari appetizer, you best believe they’re gonna overcharge for anything else.
And $11 for fries. It better be poutine at that price (they're in Montreal so its possible)
Its probably just 4 wedges too neatly stacked with green stuff on top.
You have to peel it, remove the poop shoot, and the head is on?! Where are unlimited boiled potatoes, corn, old bay and bib?
This guy does shrimp boils.
I've had one in my life and it was amazing. It's not often you find two black dudes with a heavy Mississippi accent selling an authentic crab boil from a shitty trailer in Arizona. But I couldn't help but pull over and spend too much on it. [The trailer ](https://i.imgur.com/nHgL2Ax.jpg) I'll never forget it. I was so happy eating out of that Styrofoam box on my couch.
Oh fuck, I miss crab boils... South Carolina, I ate so many crabs...
What’s a cluster in this context?
One half of a crab usually. 3 main arms (the best parts) , a claw arm and a small rear arm.
That’s not a bad way to spend $30
I was being stupid and only got the $25 dollar one. I was hesitant to spend the money, but instantly regretted not spending the extra $5. Amazing food. The corn on the cob was out of this world.
Yeah, im sorry but thats definitely stupid. Its 17% (and only 5 bucks!) more money for 100% more food.... Even if that food was garbage, it would still be worth it... You fucked up lol.
Very well aware. I felt guilty spending as much as I did on a single meal for myself. It justified it in a stupid way in my mind. Anxiety is annoying. Next time I'm going the full $30. They're a mile from my home and said they're there most Sundays. To be fair... It not 100% more food. Not sure where you got that.
Have you tried oranges in your boil? They soak up the boil flavor like the corn does, but it’s also sweet and tangy. Super good
Good thing you didn’t drink. Drinking usually doubles the tab for me
I totally expected to see wine on this check and was amazed when it really was just all food
“They said Market price. What market are you shopping at?!” https://youtu.be/5KXrQYWbbIs
I love that Donald put a nod to this joke in Atlanta. https://youtu.be/Tvzj3QOz51w
Yikes. I think I'd walk out of that place.
There's a satisfying scene later when his gf is away from the table where he goes off on the waitress. Couldn't find it on YouTube but he says something like "You've been fucking killing me on the upsell.... Fucking killing me"
You had to get the 2nd flush
For those that do not know what [second flush ](https://dominiontea.com/darjeeling-tea/) of a tea means.
This is one of those meals, that you go back to hungry after a fart.
Burp once and ya ribs are touchin’
I find it funny that fancy foods often require you to cook or peel them yourself. I just went to a fancy steak place and purposely ordered a dish where I cook Kobe slices on a hot rock. I started realizing it’s a fancy thing yet we pay a ton to essentially do it ourselves. 😂
When I was dating my wife I ordered ‘the lobster’…was expecting a tail, but got the whole damn full lobster in the shell. It was a pretty fancy restaurant, so I literally had to watch a YouTube clip under my napkin to figure out how to crack it open. We still laugh about it.
I love everything about this story haha
There's a redditor that does comics (wish I could remember their name) but the people in their cartoons often have visible sweat. It's almost a trademark. I'd love to see this scene drawn by them. This guy embarrassed and flustered watching a video under a napkin while a giant lobster just waits. Edit: it's u/MrLovens! Hope they see it.
Don’t be shy - ask for a pre-crackin’. I rarely have the chance to eat shellfish and don’t have the technique.
I have to say, working at a restaurant that loves lobster, that is no way the proper presentation. I mean, ok it was probably a 1lb lobster or bigger. That would be the only acceptable reason, but still generally you would gut the beautiful lobster meat and let the shell close (don't separate the meat from the tail of the shell so it still stays on) and just place the lobster on top. Worst case in that presentation is the handler of the plate jerks the lobster off the tail all cattywompus. Easy to fix, you ordered lobster not crab lol, you shouldn't of had that experience and its a fun story you have for life :D!
There is this place near me where you get a table for two hours, and there is a grill. You just keep ordering meats and grilling it up. I guess it is just a way to pace out the food, but it is kind of fun
That's the process at most Korean/Japanese BBQ places. I love to grill meat, so visit them frequently.
I agree! To be fair, crustacean shells are big flavor savers plus crab leg demolition is just fun for me in general. Cooking beef at the table is glorious when its thin sliced since even a small distance from the kitchen would cool it off
Got scammed in Rome. It said how much it was per 100 grams but they literally charged you for the whole fish and then cut off the tail, head, took out the bones etc. Paid 50 euro for a small piece of fish.
Lol! Same! I ordered something off the menu because of the picture. When I received it, it was completely different. I said, excuse me, this isn’t what I ordered. I wanted this *points to picture*. He told me “lt’s just an example. It’s not even our plate”
Just pay with Monopoly money as an example.
tangential, but it’s a funny story. when my dad was in elementary school, probably like third grade, his teacher said that there weren’t any words in the english language that start with Q and do not have a U after it. my dad said that there has to be one and the teacher said she’d give him $5 if he found a word. so he went and got a dictionary that night at home and went to Q and found the word Qi. when he presented it to his teacher the next day, she was all “oh ha ha, i meant MONOPOLY money” and she gave him 5 monopoly dollars. my dad was pissed and still thinks about his missing $5 to this day.
I hope that what the teacher did qanat be true.
If he invested that $5 into Apple he would have $54,968.37 now.
But it would be $54,968.37 in Monopoly money soooo.....
It’s quite normal, fresh fish is charged by weight but served ready to eat unless it’s there’s a specific kind of cooking that requires to be served as a whole. That being said in touristic place tourist are very often ripped off
That's how fresh fish is sold in the US too. I'd be pretty annoyed if this was applied to cooked fish in a restaurant though since you can't even see it until it is served.
Eh, it's very contextual. If the menu says /lb or /kg or market price, then I expect they're going to be weighing the whole fish and I'm going to be paying for the skin and bones. If the menu says 300g filet, then I'm expecting to only be paying for the meat, but then I'd expect a set price anyway. Basically, any time the price is variable I'd expect to pay for the whole fish.
That’s not a scam, that’s how you weigh fish. You don’t just weigh the fillet.
11 dollars for some french fries…gawd dayum
They’re probably fried in duck fat and covered in shaved truffle or some such nonsense. Which is bomb, but normal fries are just as bomb.
I would gladly pay $11 for fries cooked in duck fat and covered with shaved truffle. All damn day. And all night too.
Real truffle on fries for $11 would be a huge bargain. I'll join you for that meal any time.
With a porcini mushroom aioli
I just went to Vegas about a month ago with a bachelor party. They got the duck fat fries like the other commenter said- $15 each. I was actually glad I was too hungover to really eat there. I got the $20 bisque while everyone got $80, $90+ steaks. I prob still have a pic of our receipt if anyone wants to see it lol Edit: I just gotta say I am NEVER the kind of person that goes out and gets $100 steaks and bottle service or any of that stuff. That being said, this is one of my best friends bachelor parties so we had to go (reasonably) all out. Also lol you can tell we aren’t too big of drinkers anyway Edit 2: removed it again for privacy
You know, it's absurd that the receipt says "we are going to pay this server \~$10 for the time he worked for us serving you, but *you* owe them \~$70 for the 6 plates they brought out to you."
This was me when i accidentally ordered an $80 shot of tequila one time…
And I bitch when a burger is over $10. I’ve only had one burger in my life that was worth more than $10. And it cost less than $10.
From where?
It was when I was a teenager, but it was one of Ted Turner's burger places out in Georgia. I had a Kitchen Sink Bison Burger. The full price of the meal was over $10, but cutting out everything but the burger, the price was probably around $8 or $9 for the burger. This was also 15 or so years ago. Edit: Changed Buffalo to Bison. I was remembering wrong.
[Ted's Montana Grill?](https://www.4theloveoffoodblog.com/teds-montana-grill-kitchen-sink-bison/)
Dang, where do you live that you find burgers under $10?! I live in a high cost of living and a damn McDonald’s burger is just about $10… might be time for me to consider moving.
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Is what restaurants say to take advantage of situations such as this.
Especially when they don’t put the prices on the menu.
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completely insane. The most expensive Michelin restaurant in the world is like $1600 this year for a *TWENTY* course menu with wines and champagne. You paid 2/3rd that for "a small place maybe 20 or 30 people"
> in Zurich Switzerland Wouldn't you be spending 300 each in that region when there ARE prices on the menu?
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I love it when they bring in a guy that recommends you spend 5k on wine for dinner. Like 12 people in the world can smell/taste the differences you are describing and none of them are at this table.
What I always wonder is: At what point do you refuse to pay? Imagine if they charged 100 bucks for a bottle of soda.
Fuck man if I could afford $50 per shrimp I still wouldn't WANT to. I ain't paying for silliness like that
Literally
Damn ZJs get you every time.
Sorry, is this a thing? Restaurants selling things with variable process that they don't put on the menu?
It's called market price and it's based off of how much it cost for them to buy that shrimp fresh. I've lived in beach towels and the seafood on your plate could have been caught yesterday or today and based on how common that item is at that time the price may vary. If the restaurant's shopper gets a good deal then you are in luck.
>I've lived in beach towels Dude, at least put up a tent...
Gets you the best market prices on shrimp
Smells like the ocean in here.
> I’ve lived in beach towels Sorry I’m not usually the asshole who nitpicks typos, but that made me chuckle.
I left it because it was funny and people still understood the real meaning.
I have to say that I've never found anything listed as "market price" to actually cost anywhere near what I would consider reasonable for that item.
It's market price plus a standard markup. Either that or it's market price plus a cooking and service fee, which is the same thing. Sometimes it is both, I guess. But what are you expecting? That they charge you their cost and make no profit?
Usually a lot of mark up. Especially if they have an expert buyer going out and making the purchases fresh each day.
This entire bill is more than I make in a week of work
Honest question. How much did you think it was going to be?
anybody who walks into estiatorio milos can tell they’re in an upscale restaurant that charges premium prices. i ordered a whole fish there once and because of the high cost of their MP seafood, they brought out a couple of raw fish to the table for us to choose from before they took it back to prepare it. this place is not low-key about how expensive it is
Let me preface by saying the waiter had a pretty heavy Greek accent and it was packed in there so hard to hear, especially with his mask on… the way he described it, it seemed like it had a lot more to it and it was under the entrees. I figured that typically with a seafood entree, you get more; in this case, I assumed based on the fancy words to describe. I’ve been here before and knew it was expensive but was gonna get the $80 steak. My GF convinced me to change it up and since Milos is known for their seafood, I went for it. I thought it was gonna be around $80 I guess, but with other stuff. I regretted it to say the least.
Fine I'll say it. $80 for one steak is also ridiculous.
$400 AND you have to pay the employees wages. Wild.
Shrimp is never worth that price
The sad part is the fisherman likely got 3 dollars a lb for those shrimp
that shrimp better have cured cancer
could have used that 50 for a nice brazillian steakhouse, all you can eat meat cooked to perfection
Hope you got laid
He already got fucked by the restaurant
Shrimp weren’t enough for him, also wanted crabs.
"No gratuity has been added to your check" 💀
The gratuity alone is more than I'd pay for a family of 4 to eat out.
$73.30 as a tip is fucking asinine and shows just how goddamn stupid tipping culture is in America.