How MUCH is the bill?

I had no idea you could spend so much money at a restaurant.. I mean, I did, but actually seeing a bill for that amount... wow

Wow.. $12 for water? Geesh

The place isn't even that great either... here are the reviews for it lol

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&q=Nello%27s+restaurant,+New+york&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Nello%27s+restaurant,&hnear=New+york&cid=10537961379829288586

LOL, I don't get it....where was this posted? Or Carol, do you have a very extravagant new boyfriend you're hiding from us?

Ok, so you can get a water for $12.00, or TWO espressos for $15?! Hmm, something sounds very fishy here.

Amy
I guess it does kind of sound like I went there... yeah right!
No, I saw it posted at another forum where they were talking about it...

I can't believe this!

And this is lunch for six people! Lunch! (I noticed the time is 14:39.)

I just did a little cipherin'. The food and non-alcoholic beverages cost "only" $1641.00. The wine, tax and tip are the real killers. They total $45,580.09.

Excuse me while I...

over $47,000 for dinner! that is incredible! if my family went out to dinner and we, by some wild chance, spent that much money, my mom would make me and my sister stay behind and wash dishes to help pay for the bill! how did the people who racked up that huge bill ever pay for it?

At first I thought it said $4,700... and I thought that was bad.

Good heavens, you can buy a small house for that price around here! You show someone around here a bill like that for lunch, and they'd think you were insane.

Are the $15,000 and $10,000 purchases bottles of wine?

Yes, they're wines.

Rob wrote:

At first I thought it said $4,700... and I thought that was bad.

Whoa....I DID think that's what it said, even in my first post! When I just came on and read the figure you wrote in an earlier post, I thought you had made a goof, Rob! But of course, no such luck. Wow, $47,000. Forty Seven thousand dollars!!!

And I'm thinking waitressing there would be quite the gig...over $7000 in a tip. And that's just ONE table!

Well, maybe the waitress was really good about keeping the coffee cups filled.

Johnny Carson once told a story about an interesting dining experience he had in the early '80s. He was at a restaurant that had multiple dining rooms, and as he was leaving he saw David Letterman and a few of his producers having dinner in a crowded room. Dave had just won his first Emmy, and they were celebrating.

Johnny went in and congratulated them, and on his way out he went to the maitre'd and said that he wanted to pick up the tab for the Letterman party. He figured it wouldn't be more than a few hundred bucks.

Well, it turned out that Dave had booked the entire dining room, and everyone in it were members of his party - staff from his show and their guests, probably about 50 people. When the maitre'd brought Johnny the bill, it was for $10,000!

I thought that was the ultimate restaurant tab... until now.

Yikes...I wonder if Johnny STILL paid it?!

Rob wrote:

When the maitre'd brought Johnny the bill, it was for $10,000!

Yikes!!!

Guess I'll have to give that place a miss on my visit next year!

Aw come on, Maureen, you know you've been craving some $100 Truffle Carpaccio.

Fife is going to pay Nello's a visit the next time he's in NY. They spelled "mozzarella" wrong.

Ohhhhhhh, Fife, you're losing your touch. How could you miss that one?

I can't believe I missed that one.

Lily, it's a date. One water, two straws... (and something tells me it'll be a lot cheaper if we bring our own straws ).

I bet that they'd let you have a bottle of their finest wine "on the house," if you promise not to leak their mistakes to the press. LOL!

Lily wrote:

Yay I got a date with Rob! Better yet, we'll bring our own glass!!

I'm not used to going to a restaurant where I don't have to shout my order into a plastic clown's mouth.