Originally Posted by
jabrams72
Fat Duck is £115 ($225), Gordon Ramsay is £110 ($215), El Bulli is E165 ($215); all prices within the past 12 months, so those are all below your threshhold. (All tasting menus and all without wine)
But again, just the price of the tasting menu is no more reasonable than a cost when you buy a million dollar bottle of wine. The reason is that the tasting menues include different things and at in some cases, but not all, routinely have substitutions which add sginificantly to the price. That is why I am pretty convinced that despite the tasting menu difference both Per Se and Ducasse would likely cost more for an "average" dinner than Masa and Jean George about the same.
I should also say that if someone offered to buy me dinner at 50 restaurants of my choice in NY that Masa would not be on the list.