I'm soured on expensive restaurants. My wife and I don't go out much, and when we do, it's not an expensive restaurant. However when we visit my daughter and her husband, they always want to go to some new fancy expensive place. And because we can, we pay. This weekend was a celebration, we went to my daughters graduation from Dental school. She lives 400 miles away so we went for the weekend. Friday, 5 of us we went to a Korean BBQ restaurant, Food was good, but I didn't like the format. The bill was just over $400, Korean restaurant, no tips. Then on Saturday we went for ramen (noodle soup), I liked the broth, but I would have enjoyed a hamburg and fries more. That was only(?) $150. On Sunday they wanted to go to a Colombian Restaurant, I got a Ribeye steak with yellow rice and green beans with carrots. The steak had good flavor but was tough. I ate 20% of the rice, 1/2 the beans 1 carrot slice and 75% of the steak, We had Sanguine and that was good. Oh, and the salad was very good! The bill for the 5 of us was $410 with the tip.
My wife and I have had a discussion, we are done with that, we will spend $150 for 5 of us, but there is no need to go to expensive restaurants, for food. Period. The food is really not any better, and and the ambiance, it was just a noisy restaurant, It was the same at the Korean BBQ noisy. No meal matches up to a steak my son in law can do on the grill. Rant over for now.