What does a $100 meal look like?

There's this guy in Montreal who's like some kind of mini restaurant mogul, owning three restaurants in three different genres.  He's got an upscale one, a bring-your-own-wine place and a "market restaurant" place.  The "market restaurant" place is this place where they serve "market fresh" food or something -- you know, the whole "eat local" movement. (The "eat local" thing seems to be a thing in Montreal.  Even Gordon Ramsey's Rôtisserie Laurier boasts Quebec-grown chicken.)  

The "market fresh" place is fucking expensive and is located in a random working-class neighbourhood (up-and-coming!).  I honestly don't know how they stay afloat.  I mean, how many working class (or even up-and-comers) are going to eat at a place where dinner for two (with shared dessert and only one glass of wine) costs a hundred bucks before tip?  And I honestly don't see the fancy-shmancies of the world trekking out to a neighbourhood that boasts ... nothing.  

But the rent's probably dirt cheap.

A slab of chocolate custard isn't a tart.

Oh, as for dinner:  I had duck with bbq sauce (tasty!) and a chicken-corn-coriander soup.  Spousal Unit had veal cheeks and crab cakes.  We shared a dessert of crustless chocolate custard tart (so basically a slab of dense chocolate custard) with dulce de leche ice.  I won't lie:  it was damned good. I don't know if it was $100 good, but it was damned good.