Does anyone DINE at very fancy restaurants anymore?

[RUDisney]

We do. We go out to dinner at "better" places at least once or twice a month... sometimes more. Sometimes we take the kids, sometimes not. One of our goals when we adopted our kids was to ensure that we could take them anywhere and if that means a multi-course better restaurant, then they'd learn to sit still and behave. We've just learned to take activities for them so they don't become bored and disruptive. People at the country club have told us that they couldn't believe how well behaved the kids were.

We took them out 2 weeks ago to a 4-diamond restaurant. While they "yucked" at everything on the menu and selected BLTs from the bar menu, my DD had escargot for her appetizer... she's 9 and ate them all up, except for the 1 she let me taste.

The next night, we went out with friends to a BYOB restaurant that the owner of which is supposed to be a nephew of Peter Luger. It is a fabulous restaurant and is noisy, like The Palm. Everyone was making fun of me when I wanted to listen to the last second of the Penn State game in the car. They all waited outside for me. Yep, I got to hear PSU lose to MI. Then, no one would believe me. I told them only because the parking attendant asked me who won. My response to my dinner companions was, "why would I lie to the valet?"

 

[Crankyshank]

We do a couple times a year, normally as a family dinner.

 

[Planogirl]

We used to eat at hoity toity restaurants occasionally back before DS was born. (He's 12 now!) But I wondered why we were bothering when the prices were so high and the restaurants were frankly dull. We now enjoy more middle of the road places and see no reason to go back to fancy places except maybe very rarely for a special occasion.

 

[ReadingBelle]

We do, relatively often. Last week we had a lovely 6-course tasting menu dinner to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. We probably go somewhere nice about once a month.

 

[Mandabella]

Not as much as we used to. We can no longer afford to do upscale dining 1-2 times a month. So, we reserve it for birthdays and anniversaries.

 

[cardaway]

Once a month we will go to a real nice place. Most Fridays and Saturdays we go out to eat somewhere. Our schedules do not allow us to go out on weekdays so we rarey ever miss the chance to go out and not cook at home.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

We used to, but now with three kids and a mortgage in California, it's not high on the list of priorities!

 

[toto2]

I usually go to restaurants to eat what I cannot cook at home. I would love to go to "fine place" more often , but money is sparse !


I avoid chains like the plague. A corporation is not the best person to feed you !