Christmas at The Ritz - *How* much?!

[Archie_tect]

That menu and the whole experience of making others work on Christnmas Day is just pure snobbery... for people who have lost sight of the value of money.... Merry Christmas!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2221113, member: 1314"]Mate at work complained to the Craft Beer Company Pub (on Leather Lane in EC1) about the price of their lager (£6/£7 a pint) after we popped in there one lunch-time and was foolish enough to send the landowner's reply to us. Basically the landlord said "we're a classy pub for classy beer lovers - if you want to get ****ed on cheap lager go to Tesco."

Hi,

Sorry your experience disappointed.

Basically we are not like Tesco where own brand is cheap and to be sold in bulk, our 'Craft' Lager is brewed exclusively for us in Denmark by the worlds most respected and famous craft brewer, Mikkeller. It is made in small batches exclusively for us and is sold no where else in the world.... It is in my opinion and the opinion of many people the finest lager in the world which is why we put our name to it.

We do have another Lager 'Shoreditch Helles" which is £3.95 a pint and is a very nice easy drinking session lager...

We are not selling Fosters for £4.50 or Guinness for £6.... we are actually selling beers you will not find anywhere else in the world, beers if the highest quality and these are quite expensive.... however this is not the case with all our beers, as you said, our Ales are most £3.40, our Award winning cider is £3.90 and our 'shoreditch Helles Lager' is £3.95, all prices which stand comparison with local pubs selling 'bog standard' products.

I hope this answers your questions and encourages you back,

Regards

Martin[/quote]

Mikkeller's good stuff, price seems reasonable to me for what it is. I've paid more for their bottled beer.

 

[Easytigers]

I would rather go to:-

Quote as below.



Costing £125,000 for four people, or £31,250 per person, the menu for what will be the world’s most expensive Christmas dinner menu has been devised by London chef Ben Spalding, who has completed residencies at restaurants including The Fat Duck in Bray, Gordon Ramsay’s Royal Hospital Road and Per Se in New York.

Among the ingredients being used are a Yubari King melon costing £2,500, in addition the the £2,600 Densuke watermelon; 150-year-old balsamic vinegar costing £1,030; whole white Alba truffle costing £3,500; and gold leaf coming in at £6,000. To drink, a £37,000 bottle of Piper Heidsieck 1907 champagne will be served in diamond-studded flutes; diners who prefer spirits can sip from a £2,000 stock of DIVA vodka, described as a “diamond-sand-filtered vodka” and served in a bottle that is filled with Swarovski crystals.

The focal point of the meal will be the traditional Christmas turkey, served this time with Dodine turkey and with Wagyu beef fillet and heart. It will be wrapped in gold leaf and sprinkled with Akbari pistachios. For dessert, the quartet will conclude their £125,000 meal with whipped Kopi Luwak, a coffee bean, and Densuke watermelon.

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



link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/u...expensive-Christmas-dinner-menu-revealed.html



The mind boggles.

I need to know what a £2500 melon tastes like!!! Actually that's rubbish, I'd rather feel what a £2500 bike rides like!!!

 

[hoopdriver]

From Peteaud's menu
"50 carat gold leaf"? I thought pure gold was only 24 carat, how can you have 50 carat?

Yeah, that's a bit ambitious - 220% pure gold?

 

[hoopdriver]

I need to know what a £2500 melon tastes like!!! Actually that's rubbish, I'd rather feel what a £2500 bike rides like!!!

This sounds like a bit of a send-up. A £2500 melon? Right.

 

[Easytigers]

This sounds like a bit of a send-up. A £2500 melon? Right.

I've seen melons in my time, but never worth £2500

 

[Peteaud]

This sounds like a bit of a send-up. A £2500 melon? Right.

googles it

Seems that can be cheap.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2008/06/does-a-densuke.html

 

[hoopdriver]

googles it

Seems that can be cheap.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2008/06/does-a-densuke.html

I did Google it. And yes they can be even dearer. But it seems a standard Yubari melon in the shops costs £35-60. The pricier ones are the more rounded and visually perfect specimens, bought by people with little better to do than bid up the price of fruit.

 

[Peteaud]

I like melon but even at £30 not a chance.

 

[pauldavid]

I've seen melons in my time, but never worth £2500

I'd pay that to get a feel of my wifes sisters melons!










Hang on, you lot were talking about fruit right?, i'll get my coat.

 

[mark st1]

I would rather go to:-

Quote as below.



Costing £125,000 for four people, or £31,250 per person, the menu for what will be the world’s most expensive Christmas dinner menu has been devised by London chef Ben Spalding, who has completed residencies at restaurants including The Fat Duck in Bray, Gordon Ramsay’s Royal Hospital Road and Per Se in New York.

Among the ingredients being used are a Yubari King melon costing £2,500, in addition the the £2,600 Densuke watermelon; 150-year-old balsamic vinegar costing £1,030; whole white Alba truffle costing £3,500; and gold leaf coming in at £6,000. To drink, a £37,000 bottle of Piper Heidsieck 1907 champagne will be served in diamond-studded flutes; diners who prefer spirits can sip from a £2,000 stock of DIVA vodka, described as a “diamond-sand-filtered vodka” and served in a bottle that is filled with Swarovski crystals.

The focal point of the meal will be the traditional Christmas turkey, served this time with Dodine turkey and with Wagyu beef fillet and heart. It will be wrapped in gold leaf and sprinkled with Akbari pistachios. For dessert, the quartet will conclude their £125,000 meal with whipped Kopi Luwak, a coffee bean, and Densuke watermelon.

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



link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/u...expensive-Christmas-dinner-menu-revealed.html



The mind boggles.

Right ive booked a table for CC members for next year (dont worry its my treat) so far only
Drago and Black and Yellow are confirmed any takers for the last space

Offers by PM only.

 

[Arch]

I need to know what a £2500 melon tastes like!!!

At a rough guess....

Melon?

That lot would be utterly wasted on me. I don't have a fine palate, melon is melon, it's quite nice. I could maybe just about distinguish a honeydew from a cantaloupe etc by taste, but more likely by outward appearance. I can tell watermelon form any other by taste, because it doesn't taste of much.

And all the gold stuff, is that the edible gold foil? Presumably that tastes of nothing (and sets your teeth on edge...)

 

[Easytigers]

True, but...I've heard that there are melons...and there are melons

 

[Archie_tect]

When the gold leaf gets stuck in your teeth, you leave it there for show.

 

[Archie_tect]

You know how to suffer.