>Posted on 06/14/2022 5:23:37 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Hey, big spender.
New Yorkers who love to dine out are reeling from the latest affront — huge price hikes for standard dishes with no “luxury” ingredients such as foie gras or truffles in sight.
Roast chicken for $40. Halibut for $50. Pasta dishes starting at a whopping $42. Rampant inflation has landed with a splat on Big Apple restaurant menus, and it’s taking a big bite out of customers’ wallets.
The cost of eating in a “midmarket” Manhattan restaurant has soared. Remember when appetizers typically cost $15-$25, with entrees in the $20 and $30 range? Based on my own experiences and owners’ estimates, New Yorkers going out for a meal should be prepared to pay 20% more across the board.
That’s a lot more than the 8.6% leap in consumer goods prices as reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, resulting in a bill that can shock even fortunate expense account eaters.
The escalation shows up in my every restaurant meal these days, from neighborhood diners to the priciest luxury spots. My usual party of four, accustomed to paying $400 before tip (including one cocktail or glass of wine each) for a “midrange” dinner, now routinely coughs up $500.
A delicious (but not very large) cut of halibut at Times Square’s reborn Lambs Club weighs in at $50. The 12-ounce, gorgonzola-cured Wagyu steak at Andrew Carmellini’s Carne Mare, one of my favorite dishes of 2021, was $72 when the restaurant opened last June. That same cut cost $110 in November, and has since climbed to $115.
Celebrated Italian fine-dining establishment Marea on Central Park South was never cheap. The $39 pasta dishes were a bargain, compared to meat and fish entrees in the $40s and $50s.
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Is that 875 days before or after adjustment for inflation??
Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now
How many restaurants are going to survive? Many spend their DISCRETIONARY money on dining out, and with gas, food and inflation stealing this money; if we have to dine out, it’s got to be someplace inexpensive
“cut of halibut at Times Square’s reborn Lambs Club weighs in at $50.”
Good enough for Jehova?
I see what you did there. Lol. Be careful, or you could get stoned for blasphemy.
Whoooo boy, now you've jinxed it.
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Got to pay them servers their $20/hr..everyone who touches the food has had their wages nearly doubled or more.
Now food itself is scarce because we made it so. We shut down supply lines if someone sneezes. We flood the economy with money.
We appear astounded at econ 101.
Why anyone would live in that hell hole is beyond me.
Wow! Count me IN.
As in - 'Yes, we shall be dining In tonight.
Please tell the chauffeur that he may take the evening off, thank-you.'
New York voted for Bidung. Fuqum
I'll just keep on sufferin' down here in fly-over country thankyaverymuch. d:^p
Most of the world, including the West, either cooks their own food, or they buy it from outdoor/open-air stands. Only the rich get to ‘dine out’ on a regular basis at the relatively few restaurants.
We had it good, where there were large numbers of restaurants that the middle class could afford, but now we’re in the process of joining the rest of the world...like it or not.
I wish this was metric time. ;)
Aaaaand that $115 doesn’t come with any sides.
Those are all extra.
Do not move. FL is full.
I really feel sorry for the retaurant owners.
I used to work with a guy who claimed a 180 IQ, so I and all the coworkers assumed it must have been in metric!
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