Spoiling yourself is easy. Spoiling yourself well is the hard part.
Hotels, flights, restaurants, and the gear that comes with them — all of it costing more than it reasonably should. The question is never whether it’s expensive. It’s whether it earned the money.
We go, we pay, we say so at the top of every review. Nobody here is going to pretend $4,750 a night for a tent is a normal thing to do. Sometimes it’s still worth it. Usually it isn’t. That’s the whole job.
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Eight Sleep Review: Maintain It, or You’ve Bought a $3,000 Mattress Cover
Fourteen months with a Pod 5 Core, bought at full price. The cooling has been underwhelming — and while writing…
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Theragun Review: Two Years on a Shelf, and I Think I Know Why
I wanted to like this. Athletes swear by it, I expected a comfortable recovery tool, and instead I got something…
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Oura Ring Review: I Check One Number and Ignore Everything Else
Five years and three rings with Oura. What I actually check every morning, the score I ignore completely, two support…
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Fairmont Chateau Whistler Review: What a Presidents’ Day Ski Week Actually Costs
Four nights at the base of Blackcomb over the busiest weekend of the season, with the folio to show for…
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Mélisse Review: Two Michelin Stars, a Doorbell, and the Best Restaurant Nobody Mentions
A fourteen-seat French tasting menu behind a side door in Santa Monica, with the Rolling Stones playing. What it costs,…
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Providence Review: LA’s Most Consistent Three-Star, and the Problem With Going Back
Four or five visits over eight years to the most reliable expensive restaurant in Los Angeles. What it costs, why…
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Addison Review: The Most Expensive Meal I Have a Receipt For, and I Can’t Remember a Course
San Diego’s only three-Michelin-star restaurant, a ten-course tasting menu, and a wine pairing that doubled the bill and erased the…
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Somni Review: What a Three-Star Tasting Menu in LA Actually Costs
Twenty-plus courses at a fourteen-seat counter in West Hollywood, at close to a thousand dollars a head all in. What…
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One&Only Mandarina Review: Breathtaking, If You Can Get Around It
An honest, unsponsored review of a five-night family stay at One&Only Mandarina on Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit, rebuilt from the confirmation…
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