:D ^

No need to remember the $$$$$ spent... suffice it to say that with wine all these were well into four digit category.... whats important is that they were all very memorable meals:

- Alain Ducasse in New York (back when he was at the Essex House)
- The Fat Duck in London
- Steirereck in Vienna
- Trio Restaurant in Chicago
- Drei Husaren in Vienna
- Yan Ting in Singapore

I'm a little uncomfortable with threads like this as it looks a bit like comparing incomes - some of us have bigger incomes than others.

But my most extravagant meal was as a student in Oxford. I had inherited a small amount of money from a grandparent - not an amount of money that would change my life - so I decided to have fun with it. I took my then girlfriend to a new Thai restaurant (The Thai Orchid) at a time that Thai restaurants were very new in the UK and very hip. We had a meal where we didn't need to look at the prices - we ate and drank whatever we wanted. The total bill would look small to me today; the restaurant might look a bit plain. But at the time, we felt like royalty.