Starting with the house speciality margarita. Infused with Chile - that one's for me! Peter reckons my face went bright red, but we both enjoyed one each. I followed it with a spicy and very toxic but nice Sangria, Peter with a Moscow something.
We saw all these people being served food in a shoe, which led Peter to share with me the recipe for cooking a Pukeko. Cook the pukeko and an old boot in a pot together, throw away the pukeko and eat the boot... Well, we got our shoe, with these amazing chicken fritters.
Also had lobster salad, beet salad, divine blue cheese and pears, capsicum, eggplant, onion and garlic fire grilled, steak. All terrific and beautifully presented.
Then followed by the desserts. At $12 a dessert. we assumed they would be small, like the tapas plates, so ordered three. They were all normal size, but no matter, we comfortably demolished them.
During dinner a round pale-ish guy aged in his his 40's sat next to us with a guy a business suit. The waitress came and gave him a complimentary ticket to a indie music performance and was fawning all over him. He talked to us later (asking about desserts). What a plonker! He is a 'high-roller' and the guy in the suit was his 'casino host'. The plonker was wearing a $50,000+ rolex, two enormous diamond rings, two heavy gold bracelets. He was asking us about New Zealand and we told him we were heading up to Washington to go cycling. At which stage he pulled out his phone and showed Peter his new custom-made bicycle he had ordered, and made a point of noting that it cost $17,000. He will probably never ride it.
Peter had earlier heard him discussing his credit line with his casino line of $100,000 on top of his $30,000 he already had. We were polite, and asked him where he was from. His answer: 'People like me usually come from Beverly Hills.' So silly me said, is that you where you are from. And he said 'of course, my father made his private jet available to me to fly out here. I was coming for a couple of days, but think I will stay for the week.'
Glad we are just ordinary kiwi's!
Tonight is Love - Cirque du Soleil. It is amazing how many shows there are to see here. Lots of advertising and hawking of tickets going on. Glad we bought ours before coming and don't have to work out what to see and get tickets.
Then followed by the desserts. At $12 a dessert. we assumed they would be small, like the tapas plates, so ordered three. They were all normal size, but no matter, we comfortably demolished them.
During dinner a round pale-ish guy aged in his his 40's sat next to us with a guy a business suit. The waitress came and gave him a complimentary ticket to a indie music performance and was fawning all over him. He talked to us later (asking about desserts). What a plonker! He is a 'high-roller' and the guy in the suit was his 'casino host'. The plonker was wearing a $50,000+ rolex, two enormous diamond rings, two heavy gold bracelets. He was asking us about New Zealand and we told him we were heading up to Washington to go cycling. At which stage he pulled out his phone and showed Peter his new custom-made bicycle he had ordered, and made a point of noting that it cost $17,000. He will probably never ride it.
Peter had earlier heard him discussing his credit line with his casino line of $100,000 on top of his $30,000 he already had. We were polite, and asked him where he was from. His answer: 'People like me usually come from Beverly Hills.' So silly me said, is that you where you are from. And he said 'of course, my father made his private jet available to me to fly out here. I was coming for a couple of days, but think I will stay for the week.'
Glad we are just ordinary kiwi's!
Tonight is Love - Cirque du Soleil. It is amazing how many shows there are to see here. Lots of advertising and hawking of tickets going on. Glad we bought ours before coming and don't have to work out what to see and get tickets.
The food looks amazing. Plonker must be really insecure if the only thing he has to impress with is his wealth. Class trumps money everytime in my book.
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