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Obamas welcome 2015 with $295-a-head dinner at Hawaii’s most acclaimed restaurant where caviar...
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Jan. 2, 2015 | Francesca Chambers

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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Full Title: Obamas welcome 2015 with $295-a-head dinner at Hawaii’s most acclaimed restaurant where caviar and truffles are on the menu (and that’s before drinks and a tip!)

Notice that the Obama's extravagance didn't make any American newspapers.

1 posted on 01/02/2015 11:07:20 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

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!


2 posted on 01/02/2015 11:13:16 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: PROCON

it is good to be king!


3 posted on 01/02/2015 11:18:47 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ((I once was blind but now I see...))
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To: PROCON
foie gras is illegal in Ca...and many countries.

Can you spell PETA?

4 posted on 01/02/2015 11:18:48 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Honorary Serb

We had a nice $25.00 ham and a couple of beers later.


5 posted on 01/02/2015 11:20:18 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: PROCON

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!)


6 posted on 01/02/2015 11:20:50 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sacajaweau

Heck, I had to look up what foie gras is.


7 posted on 01/02/2015 11:21:48 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100% -- unless you're donating Blood.)
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To: PROCON

I had a $2.95 Pre Fixed meal. A can of refried beans, some tortillas and two cans of Budweiser.


8 posted on 01/02/2015 11:23:02 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I liked your chicken killing stories :-)


9 posted on 01/02/2015 11:23:04 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100% -- unless you're donating Blood.)
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To: Honorary Serb

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!


10 posted on 01/02/2015 11:25:58 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: PROCON

A very special meal for a very special couple. Aren’t they just special, y’all.


11 posted on 01/02/2015 11:26:14 AM PST by centurion316
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To: Sacajaweau

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.


12 posted on 01/02/2015 11:26:46 AM PST by dforest
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To: PROCON

13 posted on 01/02/2015 11:28:15 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PROCON

WY THANK YOU!


14 posted on 01/02/2015 11:29:14 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PROCON
...caviar, cabbage from Hirabara Farm, Jidori egg yolk, foie gras, King Crab, caramelized white chocolate and Candy Cap Cheesecake.

Coming to a school cafeteria near you?


15 posted on 01/02/2015 11:30:38 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: dforest

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.


16 posted on 01/02/2015 11:30:41 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: PROCON
what can be expected from a kid who was raised riding a poodle??




17 posted on 01/02/2015 11:32:47 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Sacajaweau

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.


18 posted on 01/02/2015 11:35:18 AM PST by dforest
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To: PROCON
Notice that the Obama's extravagance didn't make any American newspapers.

Google Obama vintage cave

Lots of coverage.

19 posted on 01/02/2015 11:39:53 AM PST by upchuck (Too much ME, not enough G.)
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To: PROCON
They can afford it.

...but was it you and I who picked up the tab?

20 posted on 01/02/2015 11:43:32 AM PST by Savage Beast (The U.S. Judiciary is part of the Praetorian Guard. So is the U.S. Press.)
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