Have you gone to a fancy restaurant...
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
March 7, 2013 10:00pm CST
only to find out that it`s the same food you make at home with a fancy name and very expensive? I have and I promised always to make the waiter explain what I was going to order before ordering. A couple of years ago, my mother invited us to a restaurant with fancy "eastern" food and fancy, expensive, prices. There was this eggplant appetizer. It was called "eggplant caviar". Price was as if it was caviar. I asked for it to see if I would ever cook it myself. I was shocked to see that is was the same eggplant appetizer I made all the time (cheap and yummy). This one was very expensive and yummy. Any stories like mine? Share!
5 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
9 Mar 13
For me it has always been something that has happened in the reverse. I will go to a restaurant and find something that I really enjoyed. Then I will come home and do a lot of research to see if there would be any way that I would be able to make a dish that is similar at home. What I've found in my experience is that there have been few things that I've tried in a restaurant that I wanted to try to make at home that I haven't been able to figure out a way to make my own variation of the dish.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
17 Mar 13
I remember that some years ago I was invited to a very good restaurant where they had this awesome onion and potato soup. I asked my friend to take me agsin there, to really "talk" to that soup. Back home I started checking recipes and cooking until I found what I wanted.
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
8 Mar 13
I've never had the exact same type of experience, but fancy restaurant food is really overpriced. Most of the stuff I've tried can be made at home, from ingredients from the supermarket, nothing too crazy, for as lot cheaper. But I've never been to any really creme of the creme posh restaurants, either, so that may be the reason... and I don't usually move out of my comfort zone, either.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Mar 13
I have gone to several of the best restaurants in the city where I live (my country`s capitalwith several millions of inhabitants). I never pay though. I am invited because I invite a lot to my house and I am a very good cook. I serve gourmet meals but, as you say, at a much cheaper price. My house is not elegant, but it is cozy and everyone loves it. Only last weekend, I invited a couple for diner and they stayed until 3 AM. We had lots of fun, they loved the food and the conversation.
I like to eat out at restaurants that serve food that I don`t know how to cook, but I have to persuade my friends to go there. Ethnic restaurants would be a good idea for me, but many of my friends are afraid of trying new food.
We had lots of fun, they loved the food and the conversation.
I like to eat out at restaurants that serve food that I don`t know how to cook, but I have to persuade my friends to go there. Ethnic restaurants would be a good idea for me, but many of my friends are afraid of trying new food.
@natliegleb (5173)
• India
8 Mar 13
The design and appearance looked way beyond elegant and trendy too and also the stylish yummy food is classic to try
@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
8 Mar 13
I have never been to an expensive restaurant. I cannot afford to go but honestly even if I could I don't think I would want to. I have heard most of them have things on their menu's that I would never even want to smell much less put near my mouth! Lol. I am a picky eater, and I like the same things I always eat.
I am sure some of them charge high prices just for their name or their ambiance.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Mar 13
The food at this restaurant was very good and the restaurant was beautiful. The tables were made from two glasses and there were different kinds of seeds in between. The different seeds were placed in such a way that they made geometric designs.
@teotimoponcerosacena (1550)
• Philippines
8 Mar 13
In some restaurant what you are paying is not really the food that you eat but the place and services they are offering that is what we call wholesome.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Mar 13
Of course we pay for a lot of things. There`s the food and the service, plus the beauty of the place. Most good restaurants serve gourmet food. My problem is that I am a very good cook, so that I can do most of the dishes for a lot less.
