1. Bragging rights here on FT.

2. Bragging rights to your grandchildren.
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3. Showing your grandchildren where their inheritance is being spent.

4. Doing something that very few people have either the opportunity, desire, ability or "guts" to do.

5. Doing something you'll never, ever forget.

We all spend way more, in life, than $1,000 on things a lot more boring and forgettable than a truly memorable and unique dinner.


Just a few thoughts that come immediately to mind.

Did you find any of these on IDINE RewardNetwork?

HAHAHA.

Please dont take this the wrong way, but your taste in burgers (a food that I love by the way) has a lot of room for improvement. ;)

Every time my wife and I go, or especially if we take a friend as well, to dinner at a place like Ducasse, Jean George, Gagnaire or L'Arpege I try to remember to point out that we are spending a very small part of our non-existent childs non-existent Harvard education on the meal. ;)

Ahem...;)

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Indeed, as you know, as far as the fast food chain variety of burger it is a tie in my mind between the Mosburger spicy cheeseburger (with fries and an iced green tea :) ) and an In and Out burger. Wendys isnt in that game. When you up the ante to the Burger Joint at the Parker Meridian or for that matter even Corner Bistro or Fanellis, you are in a different universe than Wendys. :)

Or, in the category of 'junk food', Gray's Papayas (although, of course, that's dogs rather than burgers).

I love mosburger too (the burger, not the FT-er; no offence ;-)

You forgot that it is really fun and if you chose correctly the food is magnificent.

Love the Grays "Recession special" which they have had on the menu for as long as I can remember. I think it is $2.39 for two dogs and a papaya juice (any juice but orange in fact ;) ). ^

No kidding. :confused:

Then are there any great restaurants in low rent towns?

Anyone want to try the best French restaurant in Bloomington, Indiana? :D

Actually are quite a few IMO. And they're fun to find.

Some of the best French restaurants I've ever been to are Le Francais in Wheeling, IL, which is a city well north of Chicago.

And Cafe Johnell in Fort Wayne, IN as well as Cafe Central in El Paso, TX.

Not the traditional places you'd expect to find first-class French restaurants.

So highest price does not mean highest quality nor most enjoyable meal.

Wasn't per se always prix fixe? That's how French Laundry has always been. 7 or 9 courses, with some options and supplements for particulars ones of those. I just looked and it seems the 9 course Chef's menu is now $240 (including the vegetable one, which used to be cheaper). Those have gone up a lot in the past couple of years. I think when he opened Per Se it had the same setup.

Mmm, Grays Papaya . . . .