My friend Glenn loved foie gras. He ordered it everywhere we went that offered it. Foie gras club sandwich, foie gras burger, seared foie gras, you name it. Everything but pate. Well, a group of about 12 of us decided to get together for a foie gras dinner for his 70th birthday. We did buy a lot of it -- I think it was $75 a pound back then -- and then we made dishes for a potluck around it. I have no idea what that would cost a person these days.
None of us had ever cooked it, so we didn't think about the grease that would soon go flying. Thankfully, the friend who volunteered her kitchen had child-proofed it for her grandkids. And cleanup proved easier than we had thought.
I remember making an Italian white bean and colossal shrimp salad as my dish. My dish alone ran to more than $50, and this was maybe 15 years ago. And I didn't like it. (I do now. It needs to sit longer. I assembled it there.)
Another $50 or so for a bottle of wine to share made that one of the more expensive dinners I recall that were really worth the price.