Home of the $29 burger

*burger not pictured*

Would you pay $29 for a burger?

I know prices are skyrocketing and I live in one of the most expensive places but…

…$29 for a burger?

Okay, I’ll admit it was Wagyu beef at a fancy pants restaurant in Tiburon but $29?

I know they mark everything up at least 50% in Tiburon because people are so rich they don’t care but we’ve crossed into new territory (Tiburon is the first town that I know of to install license plate cameras so they track EVERY car that comes and goes).

We used to joke as burgers crossed the $15 mark that we’d soon be paying $20 for a burger.

We jumped right past $20 into the $30 range with no turning back.

Most of the time burgers are at least a half pound but this one was a quarter pounder WITHOUT cheese.

It was okay but was it worth $29?

Lunch for two of us was $85 plus tip.

I know we were paying for the specular view of San Francisco Bay but a few years ago we could take our family of four out for dinner for $85.

What makes a quarter-pound burger without cheese worth $29?

Sure, it’s premium beef with a spectacular view but it wasn’t enough to entice us to come…