How Much is Too Much for Dinner?
At the end of the month, I’m spending a few days back east with the whole fam damily. Several family members are bandying around the idea of going to what must be among the most expensive restaurants in Canada:
Fans book months in advance, bring their own wines and drive for hours for the experience. Serving eight guests at a time in the serene and idiosyncratically decorated farmhouse, chef-farmer-guru Michael Stadtländer daily devises a ten-course dinner, using mostly organic ingredients sourced from the farm and from neighbours.
Apparently dinner costs CAN $250 per person. Here’s a rambling review from a diner, and some photos from the farm.
As regular readers know, I don’t care about food. I’m an anhedonic anti-gourmand. I’m an eternal disappointment to cook for or dine with. I inevitably answer “fine” or “good” to questions about the food, and I don’t drink, so I find discussions of the wine a bit tedious.
In fact, I often have difficulty understanding other people’s (namely, every female in my family) great affection and passion for food. I think it’s like trying to explain baseball to someone who has never watched a game–they usually can’t even grasp the model. To answer the question I asked in this post’s title, for the gourmand, I imagine that no amount is too much to pay for the right dinner.
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