Given the prices, I might try another place. The cassoulet looks good, but would cost me 41.50 to make at home. Sorry, I think cheaply.
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The breakfast cassoulet at Chantecler was a little stingy. I ordered it to-go last fall.
Usually, cassoulet is a hearty and generous portion at restaurants I’ve visited in Ontario, Quebec and France.
We ordered Liptauer and Hotel Sacher spreads with bread and cucumber salad to start. Then I had the roast pork with Spätzle and Sauerkraut and he had the farmer’s plate of smoked pork chop, belly, a Knackwurst, and Sauerkraut. Dessert was a chocolate mousse cake whose name I forget… something Hungarian…maybe Esterhazy? I had a glass of house Zweigelt with my meal.
@biondanonima, it was a mixed dining out experience. The food itself was legit (except for a lot of misplaced cayenne in the Sauerkraut). Service, however, was extremely harried and we waited over 45 minutes past our reservation time. They need to get a better handle on staff delegation and flow. But it is hard to put a price on the nostalgia of the meal. 
p.s. There was horrendous music on the patio but we asked to be seated inside. The space is nice, quite open.
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I’ve made cassoulet at home many times and the ingredients cost more than $40, even with making my own duck confit rather than buying prepared duck confit. But I wouldn’t want to pay $40 for one breakfast portion.
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Agree, if you’re using duck, Toulouse sausage and the tarbais beans, it is not a cheap dish to make.
I’ll add the nice cassoulet thread for reference . Cassoulet (oh not this again)
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Okay, my turn. 
One of my favourite places in New York (Manhattan). Oceans! Their menu offers a wide variety of dishes and also in diverse price brackets.
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Umm… no, lol.
It’s such a corporate-y place, we have to get you to more local places next time!
Tsunami
Rocketman
King Tuna
Charred Octopus
Crab cake (though Maryland makes me pause)
Dover sole (I’d have said black cod but better go a bit further south to Nobu for the real thing)
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Stingy, fo that kind of $$. Jeez! Love it when the pricey places give you a taste, whereas you could get a serving for a third the cost. Cassoulet wouldn’t be on every menu; but I’m sure you could swing a simple dish like that for whole lot less.
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Depends on what time it is.
Breakfast end of brunch – 2 eggs over medium or scrambled plus sausage, bacon (unless its too sweet), and toast
Lunch end – Cassoulet (over medium egg) or Croque madame (ditto)
Coffee.
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Maybe you shop at expensive places. In guesstimated , when I saw it, that this dish would cost me +/- $6.00. Judging by the comments, they don’t give you a pile of duck confit. I’m thinking I could easily get 5-6 portions from a farm raised duck that I could buy for much more cheaply. Try wild duck ($3 a bird last time I went hunting), and you may be disappointed.
Beans- cheap ($.65), cooking them, add $.75, bacon belly I get for $2 a lb, so maybe $.75 + $.50 cooking, sausage (sage) I can make for $.50, cook $.30, duck $3.00, cooking $.75, egg + cook, $.35, sourdough/toasted, $1.00. My time to prep would obviously be considered in such a place. I think I could make this, at a profit, for $14.
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Chicken liver mousse
Crab cake
Daube or Heritage chicken
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At a now-closed restaurant in Encinitas, CA called “La Bonne Bouffe” I saw a small card on the table (after ordering my meal) that said, “We always have our cassoulet available.” I asked the waiter if I could have a taste of it. He said he’d ask the chef, and came back with a full portion in addition to what I had ordered. Fortunately, in those days I was easily able to handle all that food (impossible now), and it was great. There was no charge for the “taste.”
I returned to the restaurant a few times on subsequent trips to San Diego.
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Seafood tower (skip the lobster. I can get that at home.)
Whole fish sashimi (do you know what they usually offer? I am hoping maybe madai.)
side of asparagus (vegetables are important, or so my doctor tells me.)
Fries (skip the truffle).
A nicely chilled bottle of a rose.
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I’d order the cucumber and tomato salad, and the lobster roll!
I’ve learned I can’t handle 2 courses of seafood. Too rich for me these days!
If I was there with a friend, I would split the crab cake and split the lobster roll.
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I’m a little intimated by the menu because hard to assess quantity aside from the obvious mains. I like variety so I’d go for the uni, tsunami, grilled fish (snapper or turbot), broccolini. Some oysters for the table. Do they offer saki? I could go for that.
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Sardine bruschetta
Arugula and pear salad
Grilled squid
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Actually, the portions are generous. You could order 3 rolls for 2 people, 1-2 sides, or share a lobster roll, and you’d be done for the evening. Also, the lobster mac and cheese is really a big portion, that alone would be enough for 2 people. What is ‘saki’?
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I couldn’t help but read Lipitor! 
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My choice is heavily influenced by a recent visit to our local Portuguese restaurant, where the quality of fish and meats were lacking, but their salted codfish dishes were outstanding.
So, I’d pick, for 2 people, starters to be flaming sausage, octopus salad and maybe a caesar salad. And then to share the salted codfish and arugula & pear salad as our mains. And then desserts!!
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