AUS $75 for a steak

[blackwiggle]

I've been involved with managing fine dining restaurants for the better part of 20 years .

I couldn't believe to bill at the end of a lunch at the ROCKPOOL today.
http://www.rockpool.com.au/sydney/rockpool/

OUCH!!!

4 people ,2 dozen oysters as starters,3 entrees,3 steaks & 1 fish ,2 bottles of wine & mineral water = cost AUS $ 1100.....WTF

All bread,side dishes etc were extra.

It makes you embarrassed to be in the industry copping a flogging like that .

[djKyoto]

Hey BW, get me a job would ya?

[Lance]

To hell with the job, I want the ownership! The owners are the ones benefitting from the bill.

Although 15 percent of that bill as a tip would be good, eh?

[IH8YOU]

Thank you, I've always wondered where the internet meme "OMGWTFBBQ" came from - and now I know.

It's so clear to me now.

[blackwiggle]

I went to a restaurant 4 doors down from the ROCKPOOL on Sat afternoon.
http://www.orienthotel.com.au/

I work for a chain that sacked a drunkard chef that was running this abode.

We went to test the cuisine with the new chef and see what the service was like.
ALL GOOD.

Very similar fare,cost AUS$300 for two,[we did hit the wine list 2 X $75-90 ]a duo of Almangacs and cheese plate plus $50 tip as you do when you work in the industry.
So basically less than 45% of the cost of dining at ROCKPOOL.
The irony was the previous manager of ROCKPOOL was the person I was having lunch with att.

What goes a rounds comes around is never more true than in the catering/ wine industry,if you don't prop each other up your stuffed .

[Lance]

Or can't afford to stuff.

Yourself with fine food, that is.

[blackwiggle]

Yes ,you are correct.

I never had to remove my wallet,but then I seldom have to in these situations.

I'm a palette for hire.

[billychanxtr33m]

so what exactly does a $1100 meal taste like?

[DISRUPTOR]

Should of gone to macdonalds

[Lance]

I hear that steak is cheap at McDonald's.

Costs nothing!

[DISRUPTOR]

Well they do claim the burgers are made from 100% angus beef.
Not that i would eat the crap they sell myself.

[Aeroracer]

WTF ..thats rubbish..macdeaths burgers are made like this....

in slaughter house they have the cow skeleton.everything good has been removed and sold to the butchers

they spray the skeleton with a high powered hose so all the bits of crap fall off the bones onto the floor and down a drain into a big plastic container along with the workers fag buts and bogies and other foriegn objects.
this gunge is them dried out and pressed into lumps kinda like turd and then they add more chemicals to it so its radioactive and cut it into a burger shapes and then people eat it and get fat slow and depressed and develop serious health problems.
why eat in macdeaths when you can eat healthier out of the dustbin.

best steak i have ever eaten is a chateaubriand it cost about 55 euros just for that not including the meal..(value for money)and was the best steak i have ever eaten.. if anyone goes to paris go to Le boeuf sur le toit.. its such a cool resturant.. like going back to 1900.super posh and so nice and friendly.