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but have you adjusted for cost of living in the respective regions? Wait, what am I saying, these figures *define* the cost of living.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Brittany is France's rust belt. Though the lobsters... € € €.
So, VS, what is the logic behind the Tondonia pricing?
I remember going to a random Muscadet producer in the Côtes de Grandlieu a few years ago, and the Gros Plant was 2.13 € a bottle, the Muscadet 2.45 €, and the chardonnay 2.83 €.
Greedy bistro owners?
So, VS, what is the logic behind the Tondonia pricing?
I remember going to a random Muscadet producer in the Côtes de Grandlieu a few years ago, and the Gros Plant was 2.13 € a bottle, the Muscadet 2.45 €, and the chardonnay 2.83 €.
Greedy bistro owners?
Morgan Harris
Morgan Harris
originally posted by SFJoe:
Seriously. Who in Brittany is paying more than 4 for Muscadet, bar old vintages or fab special cuvees?
God, yes, so passe.
Have you found muscadet for 4 euros in French restaurants? Not me. Actually, I mean sur lie, but never from top names like Écu, Landron or Luneau-Papin, and always very recent vintages: in a week in Brittany, never under 16-17 euros. The last meal, at a place called Auberge du Pont (idyllic setting, mediocre food) at Paluden, was when it went up to 20 euros.
In Vitoria, the very good price for white Tondonia was probably due to the fact that at a modest (but good), middle-class 'tasca' like Casa Felipe they probably sell little 'expensive' white (not a very popular category around these parts). So they probably got the vintage for around 14 euros (the current '93 is 17 euros), didn't raise the price, and maintained their overall, extremely prudent margin level.
Fivefold increases and such other French follies are practically unheard of south of the Pyrenees, even for very ritzy three-star places. Even the recently deceased (no, not from a lack of wine-related income) El Bulli had what I consider a comparatively inexpensive wine list.
In Vitoria, the very good price for white Tondonia was probably due to the fact that at a modest (but good), middle-class 'tasca' like Casa Felipe they probably sell little 'expensive' white (not a very popular category around these parts). So they probably got the vintage for around 14 euros (the current '93 is 17 euros), didn't raise the price, and maintained their overall, extremely prudent margin level.
Fivefold increases and such other French follies are practically unheard of south of the Pyrenees, even for very ritzy three-star places. Even the recently deceased (no, not from a lack of wine-related income) El Bulli had what I consider a comparatively inexpensive wine list.
kirk wallace
kirk wallace
originally posted by VS:
(the current '93 is 17 euros),
And that is about $85 on the Union Square Cafe list; a fine drink it is too with their excellent tuna salad sandwich.
Of course not. I was guessing at their cost.originally posted by VS:
Have you found muscadet for 4 euros in French restaurants? Not me.
For $85, El Bulli would serve you a 2004 Latour-Giraud Meursault Genevrières, a 1998 Jean-Marc Boillot Puligny-Montrachet Referts. For less money, a 2004 Dom. de la Sansonnière Anjou, a 2004 Sarda-Malet Terroir Mailloles Blanc Côtes du Roussillon, a 2007 Do Ferreiro Cepas Vellas Rías Baixas.originally posted by kirk wallace:
about $85 on the Union Square Cafe list
So twist the knife.originally posted by VS:
For $85, El Bulli would serve you a 2004 Latour-Giraud Meursault Genevrières, a 1998 Jean-Marc Boillot Puligny-Montrachet Referts. For less money, a 2004 Dom. de la Sansonnière Anjou, a 2004 Sarda-Malet Terroir Mailloles Blanc Côtes du Roussillon, a 2007 Do Ferreiro Cepas Vellas Rías Baixas.originally posted by kirk wallace:
about $85 on the Union Square Cafe list
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
But do they do a good tuna salad sandwich?
Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
Sure, you just won't be able to recognize it as such.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
But do they do a good tuna salad sandwich?
Morgan Harris
Morgan Harris
VS, do you have a copy of the El Bulli wine list? I would love to see it, as a professional concern.
Send an e-mail to MorganWHarris@gmail.com if you've got it on PDF, or some other format.
I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Send an e-mail to MorganWHarris@gmail.com if you've got it on PDF, or some other format.
I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Morgan Harris
Morgan Harris
OMG. THE FLASH. IT BURNS MY EYES!
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
As a group, restaurants have the worst Flash.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
So trueSlate on restaurant websites.
I loved that article, but then again, you know that.
originally posted by VS:
Restaurant lifeWine pricing: Modest resto in Brittany, France, middling 2010 muscadet, 20. Modest resto in Vitoria, Spain, 1989 white Tondonia Reserva, 20
Yeah, but you fucking hate Tondonia.
And in Spain, all the wine is cooked.
Drinking in euros is a fools game, anyway. At least for us AA+ Americans.