Fine Dining
 

What do you consider fine dining when you go to a restaurant? Cost of food? Environment? Celebrity chef? Dress code?



I'm curious because I went to a place the other day that called itself find dining, and even though the bill came to $97 for me and a friend, where were people inside dressed in jeans, hoodies, sweat pants, tshirts, etc. The food wasnt that great, and the decor looked like something from the 70's. :dunno:

"fine dining" is over used nomenclature designed to appeal to the modern foodie.



I generally just find places with the type of food I like or that have an interesting concept. If it's a joint that's going to turn me away for jeans and a nice button down then they don't deserve my business. I'm not going to pay $25 just for the appetizer if there's no hook beyond price or snoot.



I've paid $50/person and had a shitty time, and I've paid half that and been blown away. It really depends.