Thursday's dinner ($66)!
Thursday sit-down restaurant dinner — $66 mid-tier spread. Mid-week dine-in at the upper-mid pricing point.
Thursday dinner with BB — $66 sit-down restaurant spread. Mid-week dine-in at the upper-mid pricing point.
We ordered (Thursday dinner spread):
- Two mains
- A shared side
- Two drinks
- Possibly a dessert
Total: $66 for the spread.
The $66 dinner sits at the upper-mid restaurant pricing tier. Substantial enough to feel like a proper Thursday dinner, restrained enough not to require special-occasion justification. Roughly $33 per person, which lands above the standard mid-week sweet spot but below the splurge territory.
Mains were the focus. Both came as substantial restaurant-tier plates — likely a quality protein with elaborate sides, or fusion plates with more elaborate plating than the standard mid-tier offerings.
A shared side added the supporting component — a small portion of seasonal vegetables, garlic bread, or a refined carb dish.
Drinks were the standard restaurant pours. The $66 pricing usually includes drinks rather than charging separately.
Sometimes a small dessert closes the meal — a shared plate or two small individual desserts.
$66 for Thursday dinner is the kind of mid-week splurge that we cycle through occasionally. The home dinner alternative is $5-8 in groceries, so the dine-in carries a real premium. But the format has its own value — the small ceremony of being served, the conversation that goes longer because you’re not at the kitchen counter, the wind-down rhythm before the weekend.
The pattern across November had stabilised. Home weekday meals as the steady baseline, mid-week dine-in breaks as the occasional variation, weekend hawker stops and the home brunches for variety. The split worked for our energy and budget.
Phase 2 was deep in, and the dining rhythm had its rhythm. By November we’d accumulated almost six months of phase 2 reopening data on which restaurants worked for which slots, which deals were worth chasing, and which formats translated to home cooking advantage.
Overall: 4 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid mid-week Thursday dinner — would consider for another break.
