HK$10k for dinner? Not even if it's Ferran Adria in the kitchen
Food and wine writer Mischa Moselle cannot accept that any meal could be worth that amount of money
When I describe the dinner being served in Hong Kong by Spanish chef Ferran Adria next weekend as "marmite", I'm not referring to the ingredients but to the divisive nature of the price of the 12-course feast.
There are people who are prepared to pay HK$10,888 per head (plus service charge) and then there are normal people, who find that cost crass and unpalatable.
I've been writing about food and wine for 11 years and just cannot accept that any meal could be worth that amount of money, hence my reference to the yeast-based spread, the tagline for which is, "You either love it or hate it."
The announcement of the dinner came hard on the news that Heston Blumenthal is set to charge guests at his reopened Fat Duck restaurant, in England, £255 (HK$3,000) per head for a culinary "journey". And that's before drinks and the 12.5 per cent service charge are added.
