4 bits of asparagus and half an egg - how much?

[Thornyroshbush]

I went to my favourite restaurant in the world recently. Never had a plate of food I didn't love and I've probably been going 15(ish) times a year since 2018. It's 'tapas' style so you can easily have 4-5 plates in a meal. Just to give an indicating over the quality of the food.

One of the dishes we ordered to share was asparagus and a crispy egg. What turned up was four bits of asparagus and half a boiled egg in a shell (it looked a bit like a scotch egg, but no runny centre).

I'm wondering if I am being very unreasonable to still be absolutely gobsmacked over 24 hours later that anyone thought that was acceptable to send out of a kitchen at the price they charged for it. We're due to go back tomorrow night and I honestly want to cancel but DH thinks they deserve another chance...

So, can people tell me how much they would have thought that would cost?

£14.50. But I bet it will have been more than that 🤣

£7

£10

£8

Location is relevant here...

I’d say around £11, as that’s what most restaurants seem to charge for a veggie tapas dish in London/south.

Dh and I used to eat out so much but have really cut down recently. It seems to come to around £80 for one course and 2/3 drinks each. It’s outrages.

Location: North-East Anglia. Coastal.

Local asparagus. Chicken egg (not duck or quail which I would expect to be charged more for).

Should have said in the OP!

Asparagus about £2.30
Egg £0.70
300% mark up = £9

More than I think is reasonable so I rarely eat out now.

someone on our table (pub quiz) ordered a bowl of Chips the other night, nice pub, but not 'fancy'. £5, which I think is expensive anyway, but when they arrived they were in a tiny bowl, not much bigger than an egg cup.

Maybe £8? But ‘favourite restaurant in the world’ and it’s always been great 15 times a year for 8 years… you get one bad dish and are thinking of not going back, ridiculous! YABU

£9

Puzzled by the voting.
How can anyone tell if the OP is being unreasonable when we don't know the price yet?
For example
£2.50 YABVU.
£22.50 YANBU
🤣

I voted YABU based on the wanting to ditch her favourite restaurant in the world of 8 years where she’s never had a bad dish over 1 dish she feels is poorly designed. Not sure about the YANBU voters though!

Valid point 😁

She’s not going back due to the cost, not “one bad dish”.

When you buy food to "eat in" any restaurant cate or bar, the cost if the ingredients will be between 5% - 25% of what you pay, with the lower % being for places that have higher costs for staffing,,premises and ambience. You are absolutely at liberty to buy yourself 8 asparagus spears and an egg and sit at home on the sofa with a bottle of wine and you'll have had double the nutrition much much cheaper. The business has a right to charge as high a markup as they like for giving you the same nutrition in a nicer way - the "product" they are selling is not the nutrition itself but how much more enjoyable it is to consume it there rather than at home. If you don't consider their price tag to be good value for money then yes you should cancel and someone else who is willing to pay for it will buy the experience that you don't want.

Anyway - come on @Thornyroshbush - tell us the price now please.

Depends what people see voting on. It's a pointless poll as the vote is unclear.

i voted on tge qyestion

am i unreasonable not to want to go back

'favourite restaurant in the world' '15 times a year', one plate out of several the other night that she feels was over priced & she's not wanting to go back definitely unreasinable!

Asparagus where I live is sold on a local farm for £3.99

£4 as a 1 person sidedish but I can imagine it being £8

I'm dying to know. But we have a restaurant here that I loved. Then it started serving 'fusion' food which apparently meant teeny tiny portions for inflated prices. DH got as a main (I fucking hate when you have to buy the sides separately for mega bucks) a square of poached cod that was seriously no longer than 5 cm for £18.00 once.

Last time ever. Sad as I loved it.

For four spears?

At least ten pounds, the ingredients, which I assume were decent quality and not aldi basics, and then someone to buy it, prepare it, cook it, serve it, clean up after you, the cost of the restaurant itself, rates , utilities etc, then a small margin for profit.

£12.50

Are you going to tell us the price then?

Half an egg? What did they do with the other half?