£125,000 For Your Christmas Dinner....?

boxtops | 16:36 Sat 08th Dec 2012 | Food & Drink

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I think not, but no doubt someone will!

http://veryfirstto.com/experiences/view/worlds-ultimate-christmas-dinner/

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albaqwerty

I'd love to have read it, but a whapping gurt sign up sign arrived. Very rude of it.
Will try it again.

albaqwerty

sorry, Boxy, it won't let me read the brute :-(

daffy654

I don't want to register to read it, sorry. Can you just tell us the gist of it please?

boxtops

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ah, you might have to..... it says joining up is complimentary, so I signed up myself, hoping to be able to de-sign when I need to.

boxtops

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it says

Using some of the finest ingredients on earth, this four course meal for four, is the ultimate culinary experience for the festive season.
A £37,000 bottle of Champagne that pre dates World War One will be served in diamond studded champagne flutes, before Almas caviar, the world’s most expensive fish eggs, and 150 year old balsamic vinegar, are served as part of the first course.
The world’s most expensive melon from China, the Yubari King, makes up the second course, accompanied by whole white truffle and saffron. The traditional Christmas turkey is given a decadent makeover for the third course. Using Dodine of rare breed turkey with Wagyu beef fillet and heart, the centre piece to the Christmas dinner is wrapped in edible 50 carat gold leaf, sprinkled with Akbari Pistachios. The fourth and final course is served on a gold Ugandan vanilla plate. The desert dish includes whipped Kopi Luwak, beans of coffee berries excreted by the Asian Palm Civet cat and Densuke watermelon, a seedless fruit grown only on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, where up to 10,000 watermelons are produced every year.
The luxurious meal will be prepared by Ben Spalding, one of London’s rising stars of the restaurant scene. Ben, who is currently head chef at John Salt, has completed residencies at some of the top restaurants in the world including; Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck, Gordon Ramsay’s Royal Hospital Road and Per Se in New York. Known for his alternative approach to fine dining, Ben and his team will create this memorable feast for diners at their home on Christmas day.

boxtops

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..and here's the shopping list

The Chef’s Key Ingredients:

Diva Vodka - £2,000
Piper Heidsieck 1907 Champagne - £37,000
Dry ice - £180
Pata Negra Iberico jambon - £600
Birds Nest - £100
Almas Caviar - £5,000
150 year old balsamic - £1,030
Whole White Alba truffle - £3,500
Pullet de bresse’s for stock - £2,500
Saffron stock - £500
Yubari King melon - £2,500
Dodine of rare breed turkey - £500
Wagyu beef - £4,500
Gold leaf - £6,000
Periogord truffles - £900
Akbari pistachios - £5,000
Kopi Luwak - £3,000
Amadei chocolate - £150
Densuke watermelon - £2,600
Gold Ugandan vanilla plate - £1,500
1949 Cheval Blanc - £4,680
1988 Corton-Charlemagne, Coche-Dury - £1,390
1959 La Tache - £5,400
1976 Chateau d'Yquem - £990

albaqwerty

Thanks for that Boxy,
Ramsay's restaurant in Glasgow was a failure so I think I'll give him a miss.

How on earth does one give a turkey a decadent make-over?

Weird and whacky, no doubt someone will pay for it.

boxtops

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Perhaps if we win the lottery....

NoMercy

I wouldn't even if I had the money. I do admit to liking some of the finer things in life but that menu really doesn't appeal and I wouldn't just spend the money for the sake of it.

humbersloop

125k for coffee flavour cat poo??

boxtops

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I think I agree, NoM - it's not unlike Heston's stuff, too quirky and mess-with by far. I wouldn't want a turkey covered in edible gold leaf.

EcclesCake

I don't have three friends I'd want to share it with......

mccfluff

i'd like to try the melons

boxtops

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They were using that cat poo coffee on the TV the other day, Rick Stein was asking people to judge which one was civet, which was other origins.

dickythecook

50 karat? I thought you could only go to 24k
Carat purity is measured as 24 times the purity by mass:

where
is the carat rating of the material,
is the mass of pure gold or platinum in the material, and
is the total mass of the material.
Therefore, 24-Carat gold is fine (99.9% Au w/w), 18-Carat gold is 18 parts gold 6 parts another metal (forming an alloy), 12-Carat gold is 12 parts gold (12 parts another metal), and so forth.
In England, the carat was divisible into four grains, and the grain was divisible into four quarts. For example, a gold alloy of fineness (that is, 99.2% purity) could have been described as being 23-carat, 3-grain, 1-quart gold.
The Carat system is increasingly being complemented or superseded by the millesimal fineness system, in which the purity of precious metals is denoted by parts per thousand of pure metal in the alloy.