That's just sick. If I had an extra $25k sitting around, the last thing I would spend it on is a single dinner.

Brings to mind the film 'The Freshman.'

"tartar of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belon oysters"

"Just to have one of these [wines] would be a great treat. To have 10 of them in one evening is the sort of thing that people would kill for."

Sounds kind of gross, actually. And tacky. It sounds like a bunch of nouveau riches trying to throw as many fancy names on their plates as possible. But does it work as food? Does it actually taste good? Probably not.

That's just sick. If I had an extra $25k sitting around, the last thing I would spend it on is a single dinner.

But the thing is, people who would pay for something like that AREN'T people who have "an extra $25K sitting around."

They're people who have an extra $25 million sitting around. These are people to whom $25,000 is worth about as much as $25.00 is to me.

Oh, I'd suppose it tasted very, very good. And the 25K price tag is much more reasonable if you recognize that much of the premium is in the event: having so many of the very best chefs presenting one extravagant feast. It's much more than the sum of its parts.

The alarm bell for me is that this was a single meal. What was presented was almost certainly mostly lost in a single meal. Much better would have been that it was three or six evenings instead of only one. That would have been an event and its execution would have been more worthy of its uniqueness.

One of the reasons that I'm broke today is because when I came into a largish sum of money, I spent a lot of it on luxuries that I otherwise would not have experienced. And my own experience of this is that it's largely worth it, assuming you're discriminating and not merely conspicuously consuming and displaying wealth. Among the luxuries that are well worth it, in my opinion, is fine dining, the best food and drink. I also think luxury hotels are worth it, too. YMMV.

I'm sure the food is great, but for me to spend $25k on dinner, it would have to be served on a supermodel's ass.

The menu sounds very safe and really dosen't jump out for me. Even if I had $25K to spend on dinner I think I could find something I would like better.