My first week with a dot.com company in 1996, we had a large dinner in Alameda at Scott's Seafood and I got left with the $3500 tab. I was quickly reimbursed and thus introduced to the lavish lifestyle of a dot.com'er. Boy have times changed.

Yet recently, the gf and I went to the famous and well worth the reputation, Leon de Lyon. It was just a simple, yet excellent dinner with a not-too-fabulous bottle of Chablis. But the tab was €250.