The French Laundry Restaurant

By Queuebot in Food & Drink on Dec 11, 2009 at 8:28 am

The French Laundry Restaurant in Yountville, California may have food to die for, but can you pay for it? Chef and proprietor Thomas Keller was named Best American Chef by TIME magazine in 2001. The restaurant gets consistently top ratings. Still, when you see the prices of the meals, you might want to start saving up now if you ever want to eat there! The bill shown here is not the only one you’ll see in this post, and you’ll also get a “taste” of the portion sizes as the food is presented.

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Cluck
Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Seems kind of strange that it appears that the cheaper the item the more food you got.
Gauldar
Dec 11th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Portion doesn’t have anything to do with price, it’s about cost of effort, ingredients, and presentation of the dish. Also quality is always paramount, if something is wrong with the dish, it’s always remade and replaced, because reputation is everything.
Coyote
Dec 11th, 2009 at 10:24 am
http://www.crystalkiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/French-Laundry-R estaurant-15.jpg

Looks like what the chef had left over from another plate. Still costs $210.
dooflotchie
Dec 11th, 2009 at 10:32 am
So you could easily drop a couple grand on dinner there and from the looks of it, you’d still be hungry when you leave. How can a single (tiny) plate of food truly be worth $800? Maybe if it’s a black rhinoceros filet gently simmered in a panda bear roux and garnished with red diamonds?

WTF. I’ll never understand rich people.
ted
Dec 11th, 2009 at 10:49 am
“food”.

I guess if you have to ask what you ate, you can’t afford it.
Aron
Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:10 am
“I’ll never understand rich people.”

Rich people do what they do simply to remind themselves that they’re not poor people. That’s the only way to rationalize their vulgar tastes.
foodnerd
Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:17 am
The French Laundry doesn’t serve a la carte choices, only tasting menus, and at the moment, the menus cost $240 in total, with service included. http://www.tkrg.org/upload/fl_menu.pdf All those photos are of individual courses from the nine-course menu. This post is misleading.
darthfader
Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Actually, you’d be glad those portions are small, as there are at least 8 courses, and by the end, you really are quite stuffed. And as the last poster said, yes, there is no ala carte, so those “prices” are randomly culled out of the total somehow. Rather misleading to make a point about how expensive it is. And it is expensive, but it’s also one of the finest dining experiences in the world. If that’s your passion, you’ll pay for it.
embron
Dec 11th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Having been to French Laundry (in fact, where my husband proposed), it is worth every penny. Even though each dish is small, we ended up with probably about 11 courses and were completely stuffed when we left, happy and satisfied. Each bite is perfection.

The quality and ingenuity of Keller’s menu, along with the freshness of the ingredients, in unparalleled, even at his NYC restaurant Per Se (also been to). It is a meal like no other, worth the years of waiting for a table and money put into it. Not a place you go regularly, but a meal you will never, ever forget.
Skipweasel
Dec 11th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
“I want it in a bucket!”
Alex
Dec 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
French Laundry? Someone got taken to the cleaners!
Christophe
Dec 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Looks like money laundering to me.
TigerSpew
Dec 11th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
*looks at price*
*looks at portions*

(microwave sounds) Ahh Chef Boyardee! You’ve never let me down! XD
Lola
Dec 11th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Embron, pretentious much?
Mitch
Dec 12th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
With prices like that you would be better off just buying new clothes.
Frau
Dec 12th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Hmm.. eight course meal,consisting of small two to three ounce portions.
We call that tapas.
Liam
Dec 12th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
“Each bite is perfection.” I think that about pizza and pasta.

Viva l’Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Re!
Zim
Dec 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
been there- totally worth it. People spend more than that to go see a baseball game- why the hate?
Kidkinetic
Dec 12th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
FYI, for Ratatouille, Pixar had several dozen ‘learning days’ where the storyboard artists, animators, and others dined at The French Laundry…Pixar picked up the tab.

Another darn good reason to work at Pixar
Janna
Dec 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
This post is totally misleading – the meal costs $240 per person. It includes 10-12 of the dishes included in the post, they are not available individually. The bills shown are clearly for 4 to 6 people. Not saying it’s cheap, but the post is just incorrect and doesn’t deserve the link.
ted
Dec 14th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Janna, I wan’t misled by the pictures of the bills. But really, 4-6 people eating for $2000? That’s an outrage.
The Slapster
Dec 14th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I love how people who think Outback Steak House is the height of dining find experiences like this to be personally insulting. Hey, guess what? You don’t want to eat at a particular restaurant then nobody is forcing you!

@Lola: Self righteous much?

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