Comments on: Keeping Up with Dante https://www.saltshaker.net/20220805/keeping-up-with-dante Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:40:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20220805/keeping-up-with-dante#comment-270646 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:44:46 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=34998#comment-270646 In reply to Michael Perlman.

Of course it does. Totally different economy. And, by the way, that’s specific to the Argentine economy, not a wide sweeping “the southern hemisphere”. It’s likely that the cost of dinner for two at this restaurant is equal to around two week’s wages for any of the employees, and it’d simply be out of reach for the 55-60% of the population who live on minimum wage or less – currently about 48,000 pesos a month, so dinner for two would be a full month’s wages or more.

]]> By: Michael Perlman https://www.saltshaker.net/20220805/keeping-up-with-dante#comment-270640 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 16:53:32 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=34998#comment-270640 We’d gladly take a degustation such as this for even the $160-165 price tag. Quite a few here in Chicago that likely surpass what you experienced, but every one of them will be at least $300 with wine, and a few over $500. Apparently, “splurge” has different range in the southern hemisphere than it does up here.

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