John Halloran: I’m just trying to imagine a restaurant that I would be willing to eat at 250 nights a year.

I’m just trying to imagine a restaurant that I would be willing to eat at 250 nights a year.

I am confident I could eat tacos from my favorite place 250 nights a year.

Like I wouldn't do it because I like variety, but in a hypothetical. If there was some incentive, I could easily do it and be very happy.

It’s the whole restaurant menu, yeah? So you can switch it up with quesadillas, nachos, burritos, enchiladas, arroz con frijoles, taco salad, etc. And that’s not even counting desserts! I could easily do twice the time at my favorite Tex-Mex place. Or my other favorite one.

This place also does great tortas!

Tortas y tortas are both awesome 🤤

I respect this.

yeh, neighborhood tacqueria, I could do that. wife would probably divorce me & I prefer her to the challenge so it's all academic, but...yeah.

I would devour Mexican or Indian 250 nights a year if they had decently large menus. And for way less than $100/meal

not even a challenge. I'll start tomorrow. Someone just get the Turks to send over a couple gold bars.

OH YEAH WELL MY KIDS DO THAT AND MORE AND THEY DONT EVEN TIP

I’m imagining there’s context here I’m not aware of because my autistic ass will eat the exact same thing for months on end and be in heaven

As part of Senator Bob Menendez's hearings (or perhaps it was just an article) it came out that he ate at Morton's Steakhouse 250 nights on year "on average" . Which is so much steak I don't understand how he's still alive.

Oof yeah there’s the context!

It’s really rather impressive. Especially with his much younger, obvious honey pot wife.

He's an interesting character for certain

if you go there all the time you could order lamb, pork, seafood a fair amount instead of steak every night, unless he was a 'know your poison' kind of diner

I was just thinking this is neurodivergent coded.

lula

yes

Yeah, I mean, I concede that point.

I couldn't afford it, wouldn't want to do it if I could, and couldn't get the reservations, but maaaaaybe Chez Panisse for me? Emphasis on the "willing." It'd at least be a little more like eating dinner at someone's house.

Caveats accepted, but great choice. Chez Panisse was the first fine dining restaurant that both of my daughters went to. (Of course, they were both infants at the time, so…)

I've only been when a client has given my husband a gift certificate as a present, which has happened twice, but both times were really lovely.

Material differences between the Cafe upstairs and the dining room downstairs 😎

Was just coming here to say exactly that - my husband and I had an amazing meal in the upstairs cafe and did not break the bank

Exactly. Been to the Cafe many times. Only been downstairs twice, and at least one of those times my cousin was the current Chef de Cuisine 😎

It's impossible for a foodie, John, to do it.

I’m trying to think about what the maximum number of times I’ve eaten at a given restaurant (over, say, the last decade). I’m honestly not sure that you can get into double digits. Maybe the burrito joint by school… Maybe.

Yes, max is double digits, and that's over several years.

And, like, what does it cost to eat at Mortons? Can you get out of there for less than $100/pp? $150/pp? Like, if we had $50k/year that we were forced to spend on restaurant dinners, I just can’t imagine spending all of that money at a single restaurant…

I’d be at good sushi joints. 😄

I was trying to figure out how many nights of high-quality sushi I could handle per year. Not sure it's 250. Might be.

They accept gold bars as a form of payment

Here's the dinner menu at the Washington DC one www.mortons.com/location/mor... Filet mignon is $56 with no sides, $15 for a baked potato. So it's easily $100 a person

Hours + Location | Washington, DC Downtown | Morton's The Steakhousewww.mortons.com Morton's The Steakhouse is located on Connecticut Ave in Downtown Washington D.C.. Featuring the best steak anywhere! Join us for dinner! View menu

A Caesar salad and a strip steak, with no sides, dessert, or drinks would run you 79 bucks before tax and tip.

It’s at least .5 gold bars/yr

I could do double digits of Chick-fil-a (say, twice/month), but that hardly counts as a restaurant.

10yo me: Chucky freakin' Cheese

When I was growing up, the answer was La Scala at the intersection of Commack Road and Vanderbilt Parkway. www.lascalacommack.com

I bounced between Umberto's of New Hyde Park and Gino's a couple blocks down on Jericho Tpke for a few years. Probably ate at one of them 3-4x a week. Got different stuff. Sometimes I'd go to Angoletto's to mix it up.

Umberto's was good stuff. La Scala was, for my money, the best slice on Long Island.

did you ever go to iavarone brothers in lake success

Oh yeah lots of times. Love that place too. Damn, making me miss Nassau County again!

oh my god no way we were there last october for my nieces baptism! my youngest is obsessed with their chopped salad

I worked with a guy who got dinner at the restaurant on the first floor of our office building every night for 3 years. Pork and ginger (Thai place). I asked him why, and he said it was cheap, tasty, and he never got sick. Some people need routines.

None. I can't think of a one.

I know a little taqueria I could eat at pretty much every day.

Ooh that's awesome!

I could see doing it for breakfast, if I were made of money

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