First, I am really late getting this written. With my new Church calling, I will be busy on Wednesdays for the foreseeable future, so I may switch my Wednesday post to Thursday when I should have more time to write, but we shall see over the course of the next few weeks. I kind of don’t want to switch, just because it’s become a habit and I don’t want to interrupt it.
On to my post. I was going through the prompts that WordPress gives me, and one of them caught my eye. It brought back such a flood of memories, so I decided that was the one to write on. The prompt was – what is the most expensive meal you’ve ever eaten, and was it worth it? By today’s standards, this meal was not all that much more than what you would pay now for a nice meal, but back then this meal was expensive, especially for what we got.
My husband was born and raised in Willow, but I arrived here on September 1, 1996. We had been married just a few months, and my birthday was coming up. My husband wanted to take me out for a nice dinner. The previous winter, before we were married, he had worked helping build the Princess Tours Lodge at mile 133 of the Parks Highway. It is a beautiful hotel and lodge, and has a fancy restaurant.
He wanted to show me what he had worked on while he was in Alaska that previous winter, as well as take me to the fancy restaurant inside. It was right before the season ends (tourist season, yes, that’s a thing in Alaska) and the hotel shuts down.
The hotel is about 60 miles north of where we live, so we had a beautiful fall drive getting there. Once we arrived we looked around the hotel and around the grounds a little bit as my husband pointed out various things that he had worked on. We probably wandered through the gift shop, because why wouldn’t I while we were there. Then we went to dinner.
It was probably the fanciest restaurant I had ever been in. We got the menu and I found it somewhat confusing. Later we learned it was because you were supposed to order courses – an appetizer, a salad, an entrรฉe, a dessert, etc. I don’t remember how many courses they had. But we also looked at the prices. Wow, for poor starving newly weds, it was quite a stretch. The waitress looked confused when we each simply ordered an entrรฉe and she kept asking if there wasn’t something more we’d like.
The food was not bad tasting, but the entrรฉe only came with a small potato or 1/2 cup of vegetables, and a small, maybe 3 oz steak. It would be the equivalent of eating a plain hamburger patty and 6 or 7 french fries.
So, how much did this cost? $60 plus the tip. To add the other courses would have been well over $100. This was 27 years ago. Needless to say, we haven’t been back for dinner! Was it worth it? Not in the slightest. I have had much better steaks at other restaurants and gotten more food for less money. Now, to some that may not sound expensive, but we we just barely eking by. Would I pay that much now, with inflation prices? Still no for the amount of food we got. I have paid $25-$30 per plate for steak at a place like Texas Roadhouse, but the steak was bigger and there was more to accompany it.
What is the most expensive meal you’ve ever eaten?
Leave a Reply