I make no claim that I've tried it, but I feel that even if I won the lottery, I'd not be able to feel happy about paying more than about £100 for a meal, as once you pass about £30-50 per head, the quality increase per pound scales very badly.
Same goes for caviar, $1000 bottles of wine,whisky,brandy etc, truffles, saffron and the like.
Sure there's a huge difference between a budget steakhouse steak for £5 and a well crafted £30 fillet steak, well prepared and presented, but once you've got to a professionally prepared and cook fillet steak, paying another hundred to get a celeb chef to make it, or to have it in gold coated surroundings isn't going to make it much better.
It's like while I prefer Pizza Hut to frozen budget pizza, the difference between £20 and £2 is worth it, when I have the money, in terms of quality, convenience, etc, but I'm sure I could find somewhere charging £100 and it wouldn't feel 5 times better.
I guess in short, I wouldn't eat food that's expensive purely for the sake of showing off how much money you have. If I had a few million, sure I'd eat out more, but I doubt I'd pay more than a hundred per head, I'd just be more generous with tips.
