r/ireland • u/enter_the_wu • 17d ago

€42 sirloin steak, Rathgar, Dublin Christ On A Bike

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€42 “9oz” black Angus sirloin, caramelised onions, pepper sauce. Spuds and sprouts not included. I appreciate restaurants are struggling at the moment, but Jesus Christ. Would you be happy paying that amount for this plate of food?

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u/TheChrisD useless feckin' mod 17d ago

uh, where's the rest of the meat?

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u/enter_the_wu 17d ago

No way that’s a 9oz steak, right???

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u/OneMagicBadger Probably at it again 17d ago

That's about 7.50 in Tesco

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u/Wild_west_1984 17d ago

Tesco beef is shite but I still get your point

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u/dannygloverslover 17d ago

Yeah, from those notoriously subpar Tesco cows

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u/auld_stock 17d ago

More the factories that prep them

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u/Wild_west_1984 17d ago

More the buyers at Tesco and what they select from the factories.

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u/Pale_Eggplant_5484 17d ago

Not a chance would that be 7.50 way less I think you will find

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u/ImposterSyndromeNope 17d ago

As a butcher that’s around €5 retail price, remember restaurants are not paying retail price.

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u/howsitgoingboy Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 17d ago

And if you're a restaurant buying the stuff in bulk, you're not paying Tesco or Larry for it, you're buying it from a farmer/slaughter collective.

I'd say 3 quid.

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u/MrFnRayner 17d ago

You're right, restaurants don't pay what we do in Tesco.

When cooking at home you also don't have to pay 3 or 4 chefs, a kitchen porter, 3 or 4 wait staff, 2 bar staff, cleaning staff, public liability insurance, businesses insurance, maintenance fees, rent or mortgage on a building, the huge amounts they pay on bills etc etc.

Sure, you can make it yourself for probably about a tenner, and I'd generally implore you do (restauranteurs are obnoxious and profiteering assholes mostly) but to compare making it yourself to all the other expenses that restaurants do is rubbish.

Would you expect a caterer to cater a party for you for the cost of ingredients?

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u/Longjumping_Test_760 17d ago edited 17d ago

What you say is true. Also a decent steak in €10-15 in a good butcher. Always ask for the gravy or sauce on the side in a restaurant so you can see and taste the quality of the meat without it being smothered in sauce

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u/Rulmeq 17d ago

Honestly a good steak doesn't even need sauce

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u/howsitgoingboy Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 16d ago

No, not at all.

Obviously people need to be paid, I've no problem there.

But if a steak is going to cost 42 euro, it should look a lot better than that, that looks like sick on a plate.

When you let that steak out to a customer you put your business at risk to be honest.

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u/MrFnRayner 16d ago

I agree with that, as an ex chef I don't think this looks great at all for the price.

My argument isn't about that, it's the cost argument. The "well a steak in Tesco is a fiver", completely ignoring the lack of other overheads that are included with running a business.

Dining out isn't a value proposition in a direct money sense. You pay a premium to be served instead of cooking it yourself, and hoping that the chef cooking your food does a better job of it than you would.

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u/howsitgoingboy Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 16d ago

Do you have any issues with the portion sizes?

Like let's say that had more potato, and the salad was pine nuts/pesto/rocket/parmesan, at least then you're in the "rustic" area.

I'm just saying, it's not hard to produce better food than that, and for 42 euro I'd be complaining about it to the chef.

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u/MrFnRayner 16d ago

Again I agree. If I paid €42 and that was what I was given with an extra €6.50 per side I'd have just got up and walked off.

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u/SoLong1977 17d ago

Larry ?

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u/howsitgoingboy Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 16d ago

Larry Goodman.

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u/Subject_Pilot682 17d ago

8oz sirloins are 3 for a tenner in Tesco 

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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie 17d ago

Buy 2 fillet steaks in Aldi for a tenner regularly.

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u/batchef3000 17d ago

But that would literally be the piece of meat. What about everything else?

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u/batchef3000 17d ago

And the labour cost of the chefs and waiters, the heating, light and music in your dining room, the gas to cook the food. The the government take their considerable slice, insurance, bank charges so you can pay with your card, maintenance costs, wastage, phone charges, water charges, waste collection, etc etc. But yeah, that’s probably mostly free, better to just buy a steak in Tesco.

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u/OneMagicBadger Probably at it again 17d ago

Yeah you're right that bag of generic 1.50 salad and half a potato worth of wedges. Plus there's a sauce that's at least 30 euros worth

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u/squigglesees 17d ago

Op said the potato wedges and sprouts were not included with their steak dinner. The price is just for the tiny steak, the meagre onions, leafs and sauce.

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u/gerhudire 17d ago

You can get two for €10-€11 in Aldi.

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u/easybreezybullshit 17d ago

4.35 in Tesco. So even cheaper. OP got robbed