Man Spends $116,000 At Restaurant

[matcom]

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AN American has splashed out 45,000 pounds ($116,000) for an eight-course meal for friends at one of the world's finest Indian restaurants, England's Daily Telegraph has reported.

The Michelin-starred Tamarind, in the tony Mayfair district of central London, where an average full-course meal goes for 45 pounds ($116) or so, said the tab was far and away the biggest it had ever seen.

Its manager Rajest Suri said the anonymous spendthrift was a regular customer from New York who wanted to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of his watercolours at a London gallery.

"There were about 90 guests, of whom about 60 had flown over from America specially," he was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10387985%255E13762,00.html

[Sabriel]

1. For sheer extravagance, there's MasterCard

For the rest of us, there's living paycheck to paycheck. Restaurant? What's a restaurant?

[RogueTrooper]

2. Those are Ausie Dollars

he spent about $90,000 US dollars.

[the Kelly Gang]

3. oh that's different then

[LynneSin]

4. $116,000 only to be flushed down a toilet 3 hours later

seriously!