When we did the chef's table at Vue Du Monde for the proposal
Started with a belvedere martini as per protocol (and a cocktail for mez)
Had a beer or 2
22 courses - all wine matched (inc desert)
Champagne course (63 degree duck egg with veal sweatbreads and WA black truffle) match was upped to a '96 Dom Perignon
when I popped the Q they gave us a bottle of Ruinart Blanc De Blanc on the house...
1967 comte de lamaestre (armagnac) x 2 for digestive
Then we went to the Melbourne Supper Club... for drinks... lol
That was back when I was in the game...anything I wanted was a phone call away.
Now I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.