Le Cinq at Four Seasons George V Paris
Christmas Eve 2002

Brother-in-law treated us to dinner, many courses, fabulous. I didn't see the tab, but it was for five adults with lots of wine. Had to be a bundle.

Also got a tour of the kitchen and their very cool wine cellar.

Hotel Le Crillion in Paris.

$600 for two

Flew in the Concorde the same day; went to the Eiffel tower for an hour; followed by this incredible meal....what a day!!

ROFL :D - Ditto for me.. stick it to the new guy, $600 for a limo ride (I got paid back the next day)

- Dinner: Largest would be $2700 at the W-San Francisco in 2001 for 14 people
- Lunch: I think it was about $1100 for 8 people in Dallas at some place I don't remember
- Breakfast: A restaurant in NYC was $140 for two people - I should have found a Waffle House :)

Not sure about Waffle House in NYC. Maybe but don't think so.

I spent over 6 bucks at a Taco Bell once. :eek:

Does a large group count in this thread?

Yes. So feel free to pick up the check for all 30 of us at the Venice Meet Dinner and you might be the record holder.

That would be about E1500 plus drinks, minus E52 for the Dovster, who will run away to McDonalds when they put the scungilli on the table.

Far from a record.

You forgot to include the booze -- and the fact that Cholula will be downing it. That jumps the price by at least a factor of three.

This is the part I like
 

...the restaurant kept a copy of the bill and started telling people about these wacko bankers and their ridiculous tab. That's when Barclays Capital, which employed the Petrus Six, found out about their little ... ahem ... party.

From the story

http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/200..._a_glass.shtml


"Because the bankers paid with their own money, Barclays scolded them but let them keep their jobs.

But being an idiot means never having to say you're sorry. And so it was that a few weeks ago, at least five of the Petrus Six tried to write off part of the bill as "client expenses." Barclays responded by issuing pink slips.

See you boys at the Save 'n Pack. Hear it's got a special on gallon jugs of Gallo. Them twist tops work reeeeeal nice."

bwahahahahahaha, I hate this thread.

The most expensive dinner I attended was at Annabelle's in London (1993). I didn't have to pay (couldn't have afforded it anyway). There were 15-20 of us, and it was probably $12,000 or more.

I ordered a vodka tonic. I received a bottle of Russian Vodka at the table. I don't think there was a misunderstanding English to English.

After dinner, a few of us had cigars - a selection of Cubans was brought to the table.

We followed that up with a trip to a London casino. I further demonstrated my upper class ignorance by asking where the coat check was. "You need to keep your coat on, sir."

I guess dinners like this have their place in society, but it shocks the conscience. Of course, if you have $1B and spend $12k that is the same as having $100k and spending $1.20 or less than $1/person, right?

Sam

London/Tokyo
 

About $900 for Kobe beef for three in 2002 in Tokyo - no alcohol - went with my giant American boss who liked to double up on everything. Sobering experience came when I was filling my expense claim out and the news bulletin came on with a starving child at a refugee camp.

A few weeks ago, we spent £1,650 at the Chef's table for five in Petrus, London - we went easy on the wines but the food and service were exquisite.

Regularly end up spending about £300 for two when going out with my lady friend - she loves the fine food and experience and I find it well worth it..... :p

That's a bargain - isn't the prix fixe for the chef's table at Petrus something like £800 per head for dinner?

Chef's table...
 

Not that I'm aware - we were quoted £800 for the table that seated eight - excluding drinks - though they gave us glasses of Dom Perignon to kick the evening off. We had some late cancellations in the party and when I tried to move the booking was told we would have to pay the £800 so we ended up taking whoever was in the office!

I highly recommend it as something different and a bit more memorable as the price wasn't much worse then what you might pay in the restaurant for a large party. We even had Marcus Wareing swear at one of the staff though I'm not sure if that was for show!

Dinner - Vivaldi Berlin
 

I remember a fabulous dinner at the Vivaldi in Berlin some weeks ago. EUR 1100 for 4 persons, including 1991° Cht. Mouton-Rothschild. The new chef does a great job.