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BANGKOK: It’s been billed as the “meal of a lifetime”, a 10-course dinner concocted by world-renowned chefs for the most discriminating palates and — at $25,000 a head — the fattest wallets. And that doesn’t include tax and gratuity.
Few expenses were spared in putting together Saturday night’s culinary extravaganza in Bangkok.
But at this price, even the finest chefs can find it challenging to give diners their money’s worth.
Antoine Westermann of Le Buerhiesel, the famous restaurant in Strasbourg, France, says he plans to shave 3 1/2 ounces of Perigord truffles — worth about $350 — onto each plate. “For $25,000, what do you expect?” he said.
Westermann is one of six threestar Michelin chefs — four from France and one each from Italy and Germany — commissioned to fix dinner at the Lebua luxury hotel for 40 “Epicurean Masters of the World,” as they are called in the title for the event.
The gourmet menu features dishes like “tartare of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belon oysters” and “mousseline of ‘pattes rouges’ crayfish with morel mushroom infusion.”
Guests jetted in from the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Deepak Ohri, the Lebua’s managing director, declined to reveal their identities but said they include Fortune 500 executives and a casino owner from Macau.
“It’s surreal! The whole thing is surreal,” said Alain Soliveres, the celebrated chef of the Taillevent restaurant in Paris.
Soliveres was commissioned to prepare two of his signature dishes, including the first course: a “‘creme brulee’ of foie gras” to be washed down with a 1990 Cristal champagne — a bubbly that sells for more than $500 a bottle, but still stands out as one of the cheapest wines on the menu.
“To have brought together all of these three-star Michelin chefs, and to serve these wines for so many people is just an incredible feat,” Soliveres said ahead of the dinner. “It’s fabulous!” AP


French chef Jean-Michel Lorain prepares the meal in Bangkok on Saturday

Source: Mumbai Mirror
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