Let's go to the Dome Restaurant at the State Tower this w/e

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 335419.stm


Apparently everyone will be there, bookings can still be made. If you wanna pay that much that is!


Bangkok banquet beckons for rich

Organisers say they want to inspire Thai chefs
Some of the world's wealthiest gourmands will be jetting into Thailand this weekend, enticed by a banquet sprinkled with Michelin stars.
The gala dinner will be cooked up by six three-star Michelin chefs and served at a restaurant on the 65th floor of a luxurious Bangkok hotel.

The grand title of the event - "Epicurean Masters of the World" - is matched by its price tag.

The meal will cost diners 1m Thai Baht - about $29,000, or ┬г15,000.

Tax and service are not included.

So far 15 people have reserved seats at the banquet, where they will be joined by 25 invited guests. The Dome restaurant at the State Tower in Bangkok says it is still taking bookings.

The six top chefs are being flown in from France, Germany and Italy and will each produce one or two signature dishes for the meal.

The 11-course dinner opens with a creme brulee of foie gras, will progress through Japanese beef tartare with beluga caviar, to veal cheeks with French truffles, and be rounded off with gingerbread and salted butter ice-cream.

Each dish will be accompanied by a different fine vintage wine.

Deepak Ohri, the managing director of the Dome restaurant, says the diners will travel from around Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, and include shipping, real estate and gaming magnates.

He would not reveal any of their names.

He said the profits of the enterprise would go to charity, and the main motive behind it was to showcase Thailand as an upmarket tourism destination and investment target.

"Some of these guests have never come to Thailand, and will see this city and maybe in future they will invest here," he told BBC News.

"One of the guests has recently invested substantially into Thailand but has never come here. He is coming and bringing a guest. This is good for Thailand and good for tourism."

He defended the event over its entirely European menu, despite its remit to show off the best of Thailand.

"What we want to do is to improve the standard and inspire Thai chefs to raise their level of inspiration," he said.

"There is only one Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in the world, and that's in London, has an Australian head-chef and a Singaporean owner."

He also rejected concerns about the environmental effects of flying guests, chefs and ingredients in from all over the world, just for a one-off meal.

If the effect was to promote quality tourism, he said, the result could be fewer tourists coming to Thailand, but paying higher prices.

AND HERE'S THE MENU:

• Dish: Creme brulee of foie gras with Tonga beans
  Wine: 1990 Louis Roederer Cristal
  
  Tartare of Kobe beef with Imperial Beluga caviar and Belons oyster
  1995 Krug Clos du Mesnil
  
  Mousseline of pattes rouges crayfish with morel mushroom infusion
  2000 Corton-Charlemagne, Jean Fran├зois Coche-Dury
  
  Tarte Fine with scallops and black truffle
  1996 Le Montrachet, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti
  
  Lobster Osso Bucco
  1985 Romanee-Conti
  
  Ravioli with guinea fowl and burrata cheese in a veal reduction
  1961 Chateau Palmer
  
  Saddle of lamb "Leonel"
  1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild
  
  Sorbet "Dom Perignon"
  
  Supreme of pigeon en croute with cepes mushroom sauce and cipollotti
  1961 Chateau Haut-Brion
  
  Veal cheeks with Perigord truffles
  1955 Chateau Latour
  
  Imperial gingerbread pyramid with caramel and salted butter ice-cream
  1967 Chateau d'Yquem

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So vulgar

[travelerjim]

Sold Out!

Million-baht dinner is booked out

(BangkokPost.com, AFP)
Foodies are flying in to Bangkok from far-flung corners of the world this weekend to experience a scintillating 11-course gala dinner - with a one-million-baht ($29,000) price tag.

And there won't be a hint of Thai food on the fine china.

Only the most well-heeled food and wine connoisseurs are expected to take a seat at the exclusive table in the Thai capital, where the feast will be prepared by six Michelin three-star chefs from Europe.

"We limit at 40 seats, and right now it's fully booked," said Kanokrat Petchpornprapas, a spokeswoman for Mezzaluna, the 65th floor restaurant holding the event at the luxurious The Dome at State Tower Hotel on the Chao Phraya River.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_new ... ?id=116666

TravelerJim

[travelerjim]

( as seen on GayThailand by Boxer....
a classic posting of Boxer's musing about this weekend's Million Baht Dinner in Bangkok)...

http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/index ... #entry7666 .

"Just imagine.....your a multi millionaire magnet, you have everything you could wish for and more.

You give to Charity as a way of life, its all tax deductible and you get great Merit from it all.
How do you entertain yourself for a special night out?
You tell your PA and Security that you want to go to the Bkk Dome for dinner,
you collect a few friends or hangers on and order your private jet to carry you around the world from wherever it is you started.
The Limos are waiting and you jet into the Dome for dinner with like minded folks who you met in Davos, Malibu, NY or Shanghai last year or last week
at a similar little charity benefit function, was it for Children of Africa or Animals of the Outback,
or was it the other way round, does it matter dear we are here?
How strange that some people question why we have such events.
You dine and wine and Ohhh in all the right places then jet off into the night leaving your PA to settle the 'check bin' you never see, oh how cute!
Do add a few hundred of those little bahts to the bill for those terribly nice waiters......so glad the rain held off!

Toodle pip!

PS. Dont forget the exotic animal dinner in the jungles of Borneo next week dears, I'm told its to die for. what fun!"

:faroah: Boxer

Thanks Boxer for sharing your perspective on the Million Baht Dinner,

TravelerJim

[Smiles]

The million dollar price tag is of course none else but crass bullshit ~ will The Donald be there? ... ( read, for instance, Thirsty Veblen's 'Theory of the Leisure Glass' ~ alluded to in the Hominterian post above), but The Setting is kinda cool:






Think not "Mediterranean Fusion" on-high (in Thailand!) . . . think instead, downing frosty (and numerous) Singha beers while hangin' your balls out to flap in the breeze over the hoardes of proletarian farang sex tourists waaaayyyyyyy down below. And think: CLASSY!!

I seem to recall our dearest and gentle Khun Boygeenyus as being the only member who admits to having been to this place.


Cheers .....

So I guess I won't be seeing anyone from this board there? (except maybe BG) :cheese:
Seriously though, Pearl wanted to go but she got so mad when she found there was no rooftop parking for disabled broomstick owners that she cancelled!

[allieb]

So vulgar

HOMOINTERN forgot a word or was it a typing error. I will rewrite it for him with the correction.

I'm so vulgar

Pointless event..

Look on the bright side: some of the 40 attendees may be jumpers.
With any luck there will be candles on the table--White, of course--coloured candles are so vulgar--so they can set their hair on fire and go down in flames.
Hopefully, the Trumps will be among the jumpers.

We all know Pearl is barking mad, Sani--So watch for her to make a sneak kamakazi attack on the bar.
The bartender will find himself atop her before he knows what happened to his cock...tail shaker!
Blame moi: I told here the name of the place is pronounced Do Me.

The article says that profits go to charity. Do you people have a problem with rich people giving their money to charity events? How do you expect their wealth to trickle down to the rest of the world's population if they don't spend it?