October 29, 2006

Not Our Style

A commenter to Dean's Saturday open thread suggests

Gentlemen – I highly recommend it. Tuck away $75-$100 per month to take your lady out – once per month minimum, even if you have to suck it up somewhere else.
We would be hard-pressed to spend that much on a dinner, even if we went to La Casa de la Maison House. For one thing we aren't wine drinkers, I won't pay triple to be served a bottle of beer, and if we order mixed drinks it will be no more than one Manhatten for me and two Shirley Temples for her. More importantly, for that kind of money we can go to the Sunday buffet at Scheherazade, a couple of weekday lunch buffets at Thai Lotus, and bring home barbecue from the Speed Queen. I don't believe we'd enjoy one upmarket dinner more than all that.

Update:

Just to clarify things for my out-of-town readers, the restaurants are all little locally owned places here in Milwaukee. The middle-eastern restaurant is not far from the University of Milwaukee, but seems to draw more of an ethnic clientele rather than students. The Thai restaurant is on a business strip in a residential neighborhood not far from Miller Park. The barbecue place is deeper into the 'hood than where we live; that's where you find Southern barbecue in northern cities.

Posted by triticale at October 29, 2006 04:59 PM | TrackBack
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But if you ever decide to blow that much on one upmarket dinner may I suggest Mo's A Place for Steak

Yes a dinner there can rip through your bank account like a thresher going through a wheat field. But for a once a year dress up and go to dinner night its worth it. :)

Posted by: Chris at October 29, 2006 09:12 PM

And wasn't the owner of Mo's (and Motion & whatever else) the guy who got the Pabst deal shut down because he had a whole bunch of plans that wouldn't "cost" 40 million & it turned out it was a whole bunch of nothing & set Milwaukee back 25 years & landed the city on a front page of the Wall Street Journal as the place not to invest?

Oh yeah, I wanna go there & line HIS pockets.

Posted by: wee wifey at October 30, 2006 03:24 PM

And who said you had to spend $75 - $100 in one shot? Spend $35 - $50 twice a month then. ;)

Posted by: Nick at October 30, 2006 03:35 PM

couldnt tell you WW, living out on the edge of the verse here in Oconomowoc I didnt pay much attention to the Pabst project out here the "Pabst Deal" means Pabst farms.

But as Elliot has joked one time he seems to own every other resturant in Milwaukee so it may be hard not to line his pocket.

Butch's Old Casino Steak house is very nice also and you dont have to dress up and Mo doesnt own it :)

Posted by: Chris at October 31, 2006 04:04 PM


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