Posted on 01/02/2015 11:07:20 AM PST by PROCON
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama broke off from teenage daughters Sasha and Malia for a night out
At the Honolulu, Hawaii, restaurant a 13-15 course, prix fixe meal costs a cool $295 a person and wine pairings add another $130 a head
The total tab often nears $1,000 after taxes and tip
Paintings that decorate the extravagant 32-seat restaurant are valued at more than $10 million a piece
The president and first lady treated themselves to a five star dinner on New Year's Day at renowned Honolulu, Hawaii, restaurant Vintage Cave, where a 15 course, prix fixe meal costs a cool $295 a person, wine pairings add another $130 a head and the total tab often nears $1,000 after taxes and tip.
Formally an Asian cuisine restaurant, Vintage Cave recently began serving contemporary French-American food after Jonathan Mizukami, of Napa Valley's The French Laundry fame, replaced the restaurant's founding executive chef, the Pacific Business News reports.
An example menu posted to YELP lists courses that include caviar, cabbage from Hirabara Farm, Jidori egg yolk, foie gras, King Crab, caramelized white chocolate and Candy Cap Cheesecake.
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Notice that the Obama's extravagance didn't make any American newspapers.
Happy New Year, y’all!!!!
We had our traditional Pork and Sauerkraut for New Years Day—at home and homemade. With wine, of course.
The meal was delicious—we didn’t think to miss such things as caviar and truffles. And we gave thanks to God for our food, and all our other blessings. So—IMHO—we did better than the obamas!
it is good to be king!
Can you spell PETA?
We had a nice $25.00 ham and a couple of beers later.
So, did Michelle throw a fit about the service or quality of food?
***replaced the restaurant’s founding executive chef,***
Did SHE also get the cook fired?
Did they throw bones to the Secret Service and staff? Did they stiff the waiters on the tip!
IT’S GOOD TO BE DA KING! (and King’s consort!)
Heck, I had to look up what foie gras is.
I had a $2.95 Pre Fixed meal. A can of refried beans, some tortillas and two cans of Budweiser.
I liked your chicken killing stories :-)
On New Years Day, we had our “traditional” leftovers from whatever we could scrounge from the refrigerator. No fancy meals here. Dessert was some microwave popcorn watching a movie on TV.
Happy New Year!
A very special meal for a very special couple. Aren’t they just special, y’all.
Well, it looks as thought the lobstahs were safe from Moochelles appetite this time.
She keeps this up, she will be having to have liposuction once a month.
She can tell those poor lil school kids she saddled with those gross lunches that, eating all this, was for them. So she had to do it to keep them from being fat.
WY THANK YOU!
Coming to a school cafeteria near you?
Last year when she stayed behind at Oprah’s...without both girls and Obuma...I’d bet the sink that she has “work” done....lotsa work. That’s the only place that could guarantee absolute privacy.
The real work that needs to be done would be enlarging her puny brain. Aw hell, what was left of that probably was sucked out by the liposuction.
Google Obama vintage cave
Lots of coverage.
...but was it you and I who picked up the tab?
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