Maximum price you would pay for a bowl of pasta

The answer is clearly $30, seeing's I spent €20 on some pasta the other day (traditional Sardianian pasta balls with shellfish and shrimp), which converts to $26

Ah, but is that as high as you would go?

Pretty much! I doubt anywhere I go in the UK will be as expensive, and this was at the upper end of the primi piatti

Could have voted $40 on the basis that something might be €25 and damnedly tempting, but this episode is over, I fear

Non-Americans please convert and adjust appropriately, thanks

do we have to adjust against the big mac index?

I want to have some abalone cannelloni

I think I agree. If someone else was offering to pay for it, however...

…this thread becomes irrelevant? :P

... we'd have to add "blow bill gates" as one of the answer

mm, carbonara

$20, maybe. $30+ for a meal is like a once a year expenditure, and I'm not gonna spend it on pasta.

$25, but it'd have to be some pretty damn good pasta with a non-humiliating portion size.

Paying for pasta? I'm perfectly capable of boiling water at home, thanks.

get bent otm

non-humiliating portion size is key

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i was just talking to my wife and there's a specific pasta dish we've ordered and would order again and i just checked and it costs $34 :/

with a non-humiliating portion size.

fucking otm. this so common. you are doing eating in about 7 minutes because there is basically no food on your plate

you are doingdone eating

That is otm, but I'd probably finish any portion of lasagna in about 7 minutes. So I just don't order it anymore.

It takes at least 7 minutes for lasagne to cool down enough for me to start eating.

I read it in the opposite way, i.e. portion sizes are usually so huge that I feel humiliated for not even finishing half the plate before asking for a doggie bag

It can go either way. This place is the worst in that the portion sizes are over the top, and the dishes are all just pasta+sauce+meat variants. It's difficult to see in the photos due to the lighting, but there are shark and animatronic Italian chef decorations inside.

You also have the option to drink wine from a self-service container.

now you're talking

my bf and i went out for an anniversary dinner once at an upscale but "rustic" place in santa monica. his burger and my pasta were both around $16 -- he got a restaurant-size burger (5-6 oz. beef) with fixings and fries, while i got six pieces of mezzaluna and a spoonful of sauce. i realize a lot of labor goes into fresh pasta, but the ingredients are sooooo cheap.

they didn't even differentiate on the menu that the pasta was meant to be ordered as a separate course and not a main. if i had known, i would have gone with a better value.

yeah, I always steer clear of ravioli type stuff because of this

I grew up with a REAL relative from Italy who lived nearby, and who cooked pasta and other dishes from scratch...we'd eat at her place at least once a month or so. I'd pay $100's to eat that again. Her sauce recipe was passed on to my mom, whose sauce is also great, but nowhere near as good.

Found an $8 over-the-counter imported sauce that tastes almost as good as mom's. I'm picky so I wouldn't pay less than $40 when eating out - otherwise, it's not "pasta" to me.

the times i've made pasta from scratch i could never get it thin enough, so i have crazy respect for the people with enough patience and skill to do that.

still trying to figure out if complaining about paying for homemade pasta is gauche

head is spinning at "never ending pasta bowl" with "limited time". make your fucking mind up!

restaurant pasta never seems to be much better, if at all better, than we make at home. $15 i guess but I've been disappointed so many times - even in Italy - that I wouldn't bother.

shit i made tonight was def worth $28 fwiw

take it to the TMI thread, weirdo

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/07/olive-garden-never-ending-pasta-casual-dining-restaurants/15139803/

http://i.imgur.com/N4HDaf7.png

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