UPDATE: Commenter Michael Belisle writes that someone from Zuni left a comment on a message board claiming the nectarine should have only been $4.50, which is less ludicrous, although still fairly pricey for a food whose only preparation was putting it on a plate. Thanks, Michael!
Nectarine Dessert At Zuni Is Just That [Chowhound via Serious Eats]
@suburb:
The $48/1 hour chicken is WELL worth the wait and the price.
Now you've got me curious -- I'd like to try it but can't imagine waiting an hour for my food once I ordered it.
Personally I wouldn't pay $48 ($24/person) for chicken, but it does say an hour wait on the menu.
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Chicken For Two Roasted In The Brick Oven, Warm Bread Salad with red mustard greens, scallions currants, and pine nuts. approximately 1 hour
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]]>@Michael Belisle: And it even has Bluff in the name! Priceless. Or rather $8!
]]>So did these people refuse to pay or anything? If I was served a single nectarine on a place for $8, I'd just send it back and say I wasn't going to pay for it.
The most I've ever payed for fruit was the $2.50 I paid for an organic peach which was larger then my fist. It was worth every penny by the way.
]]>@purplesun:
Ha ha ha, you beat me!
Gordon Ramsay would have a field day with this.
]]>I want that thing in a hatfull of perfume for $8.
]]>Decades back, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook had a stage routine in which a chef's two signature dishes were frog ala peach (a huge bullfrog stuffed with peach slices) and peach ala frog (a huge peach filled with tadpoles.)
I would gladly pay $8 for -- and eat -- either of those before I'd pay $8 or even $4.50 for a naked whole nectarine on a plate.
I have to wonder if they even bothered to wash it.
]]>they should at least cut it into wedges for you.
]]>@crescentia: One should never bash other people's hobbies, really. If all we did were things that were logical, we would eat bread & water, take a vitamin pill, go to work, exercise, and go directly to bed each and every day.
Anything else could easily be broken down as insane from the right point of view, including sports, television, and internet commenting.
If $100 or $500 meals are your interest/passion/hobby, then more power to you. If $500 meals are your daily form of nutrition intake, then I'm on board an insanity argument.
]]>@crescentia: Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
Seriously, if that's not how you enjoy spending your hard-earned cash, please don't feel obligated. Some of us truly like a good (and sometimes pricey) dining experience, and we're not insane.
I'm not saying that a $8 raw nectarine on a plate qualifies as a good dining experience. That might be insane.
]]>Anybody that goes to a restaurant and pays over $30.00 for a small plate of food is insane. I don't care who made it or how the hell it tastes, it's just a waste of money.
]]>Regardless of the price, a single, unadorned nectarine on a plate is just insulting. Now, if for $4.50 they gave you a fantastic peach, a nice, clean bar towel, and let you eat it standing over the sink in the kitchen, that would be another story. At least that would be kinda avant-garde.
]]>Not only would I be ticked about the price (even at $4.50), I would be terribly confused as to how to eat it. Do you just pick it up with your hand and eat it? Or would etiquette call for a knife and fork in a fancy place like that?
]]>Good grief.
]]>And fresh mangosteens fetch less than $8/lb.
]]>We have a lot of places in Austin like that. Of course, the general theory is that they're run by the mafia.
... Ok. I'm getting way off topic. Time for sleep. ;p
]]>Nice way to shit on your customers
]]>Well, it did say "truffles" on the sans prix menu. And most of those commenters have been banned, so it works out in the end.
]]>I guess they couldn't get enough people to pay for the mac and cheese after they ate it. ;p
]]>Hey Consumerist! Funny night for both me and my roommate. Not only did the girl I am seeing not put out, but my roommate has a problem with his date as well. They had decided to go to dinner at a restaurant she liked in the west village...
(Well, technically that was before my time, but we can't bother ourselves with silly details like that con me?
@bohemian: Zuni says the $8 is an error, and the price really was supposed to be $4.50:
Yikes! If the customer who posted this photo was charged $8.00 for the nectarine it was definitely an error. We would love the customer to contact us with their receipt and we would be more than happy to refund the entire amount for the fruit. Checking our menus, the Blossom Bluff Summer Grand nectarine was on our dessert menu from July 29-31st for $4.50.]]>
I've eaten at a ton of pretentious restaurants before all over NY. If any of them pulled this the chef would be wearing that peach.
]]>for that price do I get to shove it up the waiter's cornhole?
]]>I, for one, ask for descriptions of all the available desserts before I decide what to get. If the description was "unadorned raw necatrine in a bowl" I might just pass and pick the Triple Chocolate Brownie Blast instead.
]]>They're fabulous, too; white nectarines that taste of honeysuckle and sunshine. I'm going to have one right now -- and I'm going to slice it, arrange it in a vintage glass bowl and eat it with a tiny, silver fork. Take that, overpriced, trendy 'cafes'!
]]>Let's say, don't visit this place again. Especially as the fruit doesn't look very fresh in the first place.
]]>Wow...are you sure this isn't a joke? If not, would it have put them out too much to cut it up fancily and put it on a pretty plate, or maybe toss a dollup of cool whip on it? Oh, I forgot...that would destroy the ethos. Previous poster was right; stay away from any food establishment containing the word "cafe".
]]>"*bleeping* hell. This is just *bleep* *bleep* *bleeping* pretentious *bleeping* *bleep*.
]]>You f**king donkey! That nectarine is RAW! Close the kitchen! F**k off, the lot of you!
]]>I love good food but places like this frequently end up doing themselves in because they get so ego inflated they start doing stupid things like selling $8 nectarines on a plate. If a place has a bit too much name recognition I will actively avoid it.
]]>Steak places have taken this to the extreme.
]]>This nectarine dessert story does little to counter our impression.
]]>although, on second inspection, that doesn't look like a very expensive plate ...
silverware, maybe?
(i'm kidding! i'm kidding! stealing is wrong, even if in very provocative dessert situations.)
]]>At least poach it - poached pears are nom nom nom.
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Never heard of a nectarine with fuzz. Are you confusing them with peaches?
Yeah, probably. I'm not a fan of either one...
]]>@Neecy: Only $8 nectarines have fuzz. It's what the extra $7.41 was paid for (well, the extra $.41 -- the other $7 was to take it off).
]]>Ah, but you're wrong. The fuzz has been lovingly shaved off.
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