On Monday 19 March the creators of the $25,000 dinner announced there's another pricey gourmet feast on the horizon. Guess where this time????
Wealthy foodies can mark their calendars for Dec. 12, 2008, when top chefs from around the world will be flown to EGYPT to cook a dinner in front of the ancient Pyramids of Giza, organizer Deepak Ohri said.
This dinner will be a bargain, at least compared to the one in Bangkok last month that was billed as the meal of a lifetime and cooked by six 3-star Michelin chefs for $25,000 a head. High-rolling food lovers flew in from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and across Asia for the 40-seat dinner.
The price for dining beside the pyramids has not yet been set, but it will cost less than $10,000 per person, said Ohri, the managing director of Bangkok's luxury Lebua hotel, the event planner behind the dinners that are boldly titled "Epicurean Masters of the World."
Though cheaper, the upcoming feast is intended to be even grander than its predecessor.
"It will still be for millionaires, but this dinner will be for a lot of millionaires," Ohri told The Associated Press.
Some 500 tickets will be sold for the dinner to be cooked by 30 3-star Michelin chefs.
About a third of the chefs already have confirmed their attendance; each chef will prepare a meal for roughly 17 diners.
A kitchen half a mile long will be set up against the backdrop of the pyramids with equipment and the best ingredients jetted in from around the world.
Unlike the $25,000 dinner, which featured rare French wines and mostly French food, the next meal will be culturally diverse and paired with fine wines from around the world, Ohri said.
Just how close diners will be to the pyramids depends upon the Egyptian government and the U.N.'s cultural body UNESCO, since the pyramids are a World Heritage site.
Talks are under way with authorities, Ohri said, noting that organizers are "considering" giving profits from the dinner to an organization or charity that deals with conserving the Seven Wonders of the World. The pyramids are the only surviving structure from the traditional list of architectural marvels.
When I was in France a couple of years ago I went with a colleague of mine to a nice restaurant in Grenoble for a 7 meal course it took us 4 hours to go through it, but it was for only 70 Euros per person not 10,000.00 US Dollars per head.
Now to the important conclusion, I am looking for a sponsor who is willing to pay me $20K so I can go that life time dinner by the Pyramids, with a beautiful date. On that night I need to be with a special female as a date, she needs to be pretty, but also she must be a food lover willing to go for a 10 course meal challenge, it is crucial that she is interesting conversationalist cause to forgo that dinner marathon it would take at least 5 hours. I am dreaming I know but let me dream please don’t wake me up……………
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