Must be the dried octopus w/chili sauce, fruit assortments and noodle soups at the Korean "room salons". The tidbits come free, but the scotch that is part of the package has a tag of some 200+$ per bottle in the upmarket joints. And on a Big Deal night, there are going to be lots of bottles...

http://english.chosun.com/cgi-bin/pr...d=200107090270

From the article:

"I remember another Westerner who deplored Korean business entertainment culture. He was invited by a Korean business partner to eat Kalbi and drink So-ju at a Korean restaurant. Following dinner, he was led to a Dan-lan Jujum, a karaoke with girls. He was shocked that all the Korean colleagues sang good songs and someone sang a wonderful English song. However, the entertainment did not stop at the second round. He was also invited to a third round--the so-called room salon. He quickly realized that the real night of entertainment was just beginning.

First of all, the drinking custom was completely different. The various forms of bomb wine or "Poke-tang" (Depth-charge [UK] Boilermaker [US]), which is composed of strong alcohol like whiskey and beer were introduced to him. Despite him saying he could not drink much, they pressed him to drink with the popular expression "Do in Rome as the Romans do." They seemed to think that he was capable of paying the third round as he represented a big multi-national company. Seeing the bill there, he was shocked at the astronomical amount. Knowing that his company would not pay for that huge amount, he had to pay for that night's entertainment, as much as one month salary, from his pocket. "

Poor sod, hope not a FT member.

Most expensive: $1200 and change, but that was for my wedding rehearsal dinner. It was at an iDine restaurant.

For two people: $800 for my wife's birthday at Guy Savoy in Paris
though the dinners at Louis XV in Monaco and Aqua in Las Vegas were close at $600+.

It's not 320,000. - it's 320.00 - Europeans (& others use a comma where us Yanks would use a dot) It's also followed by 2 digits, not 3, further indicating 320, not 320,000. 320K WOULD win the most expensive on this thread, though!

Good point!

You might be surprised by your credit card bills if you travel in Europe thinking that. There are two digits - not three - after the comma when speaking of euros, for example. The poster wrote that he paid 320,00 for dinner or 320 euros. 320.000 euros, OTOH, would be closer to $380,000.

I think US gas prices are about the only things that are expressed in fractions of cents.

About US$2,600 + service, 15 or 16 people and me, Witchery by the Castle, Edinburgh

I took a friend to Le Gavroche (run by the Roux brothers) in my home city of London and as this is a very classy joint, they don't give the women a menu with the prices. As I was paying for this (a birthday treat), she was a little put out not to have any prices and was I think really scared that I might not be able to afford it.

The total bill was about $360 dollars/�180 (didn't order any liquor either), although after 7 courses, I was so full I didn't need breakfast the next day, fantastic evening.

but at a certain club in Austin, ten or more years ago, I was with the president of a company that I worked for. We were celebrating a mega million dollar order from a notorious cell phone manufacturer. The "key" players were with us, there must have been twenty guys or so.

When the night ended, the bill came, it was over twenty five feet long and totaled over $25,000.00

That was the first time myself or alot of the people around me had ever seen a platinum AMEX.

Funny now, but gawd, what excess!

Most expensive meal for me was a celebratory lunch at Taillevent with my sister. The day before I found out my mark for my Master's thesis and that I would be able to graduate with a high average. We spent about 650 Euro; the food was outstanding and not too expensive. The bottle of Perrier Jouet La Belle Epoque rose as aperatif, and the Margaux and Vosne Romanee, as well as the Cohiba Siglo III most certainly put a huge dent onto the tab pricey but it was very well worth it.

Well, it certainly does not seem like much, but it was $140 for ME alone at Casa Toscana in Miami a few months ago. A bulk of it was a very good bottle of wine that I had to drink alone. But still worth it.

Peace!

Other than my wedding, it'll be the Nobu NYC meal. $200 pp. Not exactly worth it, but just had to do it (and 3 more times). My next expensive meal will be at Per Se in Jan. I expect to spend $400 pp with the wine pairing. Ooouch.

$1300 for a dinner of 4 at L'Oasis near Cannes. Well worth the money

I was working late one night last year when a vendor meeting broke up and everybody went to dinner, and I was invited to join them at Cool Rive in Las Colinas (TechGirl's hangout)(I'm not going to say no to a free meal). There were 12 of us, and the boss pulled out his AMEX when the bill arrived. It was only around $800, as the boss and the owner of Cool River are friends (the meal was free, the $800 was for the wine).

HKD$34,500- ($38,000 including 10% charge and small tip) at The Forum, Hong Kong in Wan Chai for 10 people, fortunately we chipped in only HK$6,000. Was well worth it, for the wonderful Ah Yat's abalone

States:
TRU Restaurant Chicago....... $1160USD for 3

Worldwide:
Restaurant Petrus atop the Shargri-La hotel in HK... 4500HKD for 2