As I’ve mentioned before we are not an inexpensive restaurant. However, we are far from super expensive. Check out some restaurants in NYC if you want truly expensive.

Every couple of weeks someone responds to our surveys with the comment that we are expensive.

Today’s comment was that our wine prices are too expensive for a local restaurant.

Which caused me to ask some questions:

What do they mean by local?

Isn’t EVERY restaurant a local restaurant for some one?

Is there a price guideline for local restaurants?

Does it depend on local to who?

Is 40 dollars really an expensive bottle of wine?

Is your wine list really expensive if you only have a six wines over $100?

And all of those are marked reserve?

Is it wrong of us to think when someone is spending money on a quality steak that they might want a quality wine?

I just looked at her receipt. She might have meant glass pours as that’s what they ordered.

Our glass pours are 10, 11, and 12 dollars. Not expensive by any measure. In Portland restaurants are charging $15+ a glass.

These are just a few of my questions.

So what should our prices be?

What kind of quality are you looking for?

Shouldn’t the wine quality and food quality match each other?

That’s all. Those are my questions.

Feel free to let me know your thoughts.