Paracetamol (500€/kg)

Not as expensive as some of the other comments here but

Around $70~80 for the cheapest steak at a medium- to high-end restaurant in Chicago. Worth the experience and I bet most ppl would have loved it, but that's how I found out I don't like steak...

The second most expensive restaurant I've been to (averaging $40~50 per entrée) was legit amazing though

Around 180g of Kobe Sirloin for maybe 150$ in Japan. Not really worth it but it was once in a lifetime.

Celebrated getting a good paying job by going to Sushi Kashiba in Seattle. Nearly $700 for the two of us, about 1/3 of that was fancy saki. It was worth it except for I couldn't eat normal sushi for over a year after because no matter where we went it all tasted cheap in comparison

I paid near $60 for 3 chicken nugget size pieces of Kobe beef from a street vendor in Osaka.

Totally worth it.

There's a fancy grocery store near me, and in the deli, they had acorn-fed organic-raised Iberico Pork charcutery.

It was, I want to say, $160 a pound.

It was my birthday, and getting them to slice it as thin as they could, I bought a tenth of a pound of this $160 a pound Iberico pork.

It was the most delicious thing I'd ever eaten in my entire life.

I shared it with my girlfriend and she almost cried at how good it was.

Really old scotch. I don't remember the distillery or the sticker price, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $100 / glass. I had it at a fancy party.

Worth $100 / glass? I don't think so, but it was very good. Best scotch I've ever had, not that I'm much of a connoisseur. I get why rich people like it.

My ex.

I had a $150 shot of vodka once.

It was just as terrible as the cheapest shit I've ever had.

Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.

I guess a whole truffelo souce. And let me tell you. Its really not what its hiped up to be

Corporate customer dinner in Vegas, footed by sales director, who insisted on ordering the most expensive bottle of scotch on the menu.

It was pretty good, but pretty sure not worth the high 4-digits.

He did get to close the sale 🤷🏻‍♂️

Some kind of Indian dessert that was covered in gold leaf at a rich older family friends birthday. I had one out of curiosity but it didn't add anything to the experience except sadness at the waste

Drank a $600 bottle of champagne. I was young and burning my money on dumb shit. It was not worth it.

I didnt and still dont have the palate, but an $8 bottle of passion pop tasted just as good.

Louis XIII, in a private tasting room with a nephew of the family out of the leaded crystal glasses.

In the process, completing my life goal of consuming something aged longer than I've been alive.

$300 steak, it was the best steak I've ever had, but not drastically better than a $60 steak.

I once went out to dinner and a movie with a then-friend, like many other casual hangouts we had over the years, but this time that person made a pass at me at the end of the evening and I went with it. This started a relationship which turned incredibly toxic and put me through years of domestic abuse. (It was long ago, I'm fine now.)

Whatever the hell we had for dinner that night was probably my most personally-costly meal ever, and I would not describe it as worth it.

Rogue River Blue Cheese, in 2019, the year it won the award for the world's best cheese. My store had it for $149/pound. Was it good? Hell yeah! Worth the money? Let's just say that I could buy 10 times as much blue cheese for 1/10th the price and be happy. (St. Agur would be my choice.)

Wasn't one thing but had a really expensive meal. It was called Chef's Table. Here is the menu.

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/content/dam/royal/resources/menus/chefs-table-menu-sample.pdf

IMHO the Merlot was awful. But I rarely drink so....

Anyway it was a really nice meal

$100 wine bottle, and $20 small glass of rum: worth it. Caviar: not worth it, it's bland.

Clase Azul Ultra Good, but well over the “not that good” line.

I went to dinner at a fancy restaurant with my wife and our friends, and I got an $85 steak. Definitely worth it!

I didn't pay for it but Jim Beam bicentennial of some sort. 9k JPY/shot nearly a decade ago. Not worth it for the price, but I didn't pay.

$100+ USD for a 6oz A5 wagyu steak. Certainly changes your perspective on the heights of quality for steak. I also paid $65 for a sashimi grade tuna Benedict at this place for brunch. No ragrets.

$60 for a 1/2 pour of an $1100 bottle of bourbon (rabbit hole amburana). It was a novelty and surprised me a lot. Definitely phenomenal, but a taste was all I needed. No ragrets.

Sam adams utopia (think it was $220 for the 750ml bottle of "beer"), not worth it, but a fun experience to share with other beer nerds.

There's an apparently $1200 bottle of wine from a small napa vineyard with a wait-list for their wine in my basement right now we got as a gift. We're gonna need to find a pro who can help us taste that. My wine taste tops out at about $30 a bottle.

One day I'll do Omakase at a suitably awesome sushi place and wreck the credit card.

The only story I have here is back when I was married, we went out to eat with one of her old friends and her husband. I generously offered to pick up the bill without looking at it, and it was about $200, which surprised me. We didn't have a lot to drink. We were far from rich, I had to put it on a credit card and we paid it off eventually.

I never did that again.

Eaten: Dinner at Oriole in Chicago and yes.

Drank: probably fancy wine or an expensive cocktail and no. I drink too much to appreciate it and prefer midshelf booze.

... although there was a vermouth pairing at Oriole that was probably the best drink I've ever had. But that drink alone wasn't expensive, it was just part of a single course.

Probably some expensive ass burger back then with my ex and her rich family. I think it was like 14€ per burger.

Huh, good question. I’m not even sure I know, as a general rule I don’t eat out anywhere outrageously expensive, and I’m virtually certain I’ve never spent more than $100 in one go. Honestly I’m loathe to spend more than $20 on a single meal, which is why I haven’t eaten out anywhere other than a few local affordable places in at least 3 or 4 years.

So probably a Japanese dinner in NYC that was kinda overpriced.

Dinner at French Laundry, and "no"