Could you eat a thousand dollars?

So a couple of conversations earlier this week got me thinking. Hive account@elsiekjay was talking about what if Steem were $1000, and that made me think of a series Hive account@the.foodini has where he shows how much food he can buy for 1 Steem.

And that got me wondering, how many places are there where you can reasonably spend $1000 on a meal for a single person? No alcohol, that makes it too easy - I'm pretty sure you can spend $1000 in any mid-sized city in Europe or North America if you include booze, and probably most other places. But food only is a harder question.

For my birthday this year we ate at what I'm pretty sure is the most expensive restaurant in Minnesota, Kaiseki Furukawa, which is a $125/head, three-hour tasting menu experience that you pay for when you make your reservation so they don't have to deal with prole things like taking your money. While I wouldn't want to do that every week, it was pretty fun to do for a birthday celebration.

But that's only one eighth of the way to our thousand-dollar goal. If I wanted to do that in the US I expect I would have to go to New York or Los Angeles. Chicago's most expensive restaurant is probably Alinea at $390/head for their kitchen table. So I'd have to head for some coast.

Even in New York it might not be easy: Masa is only $595, and generally regarded as the best and most expensive restaurant in the US. To actually spend $1000 on food there you have to move from the level of high-quality to the merely gimmicky: 24-karat gold chicken wings at the Ainsworth or a gold foil pizza at Industry Kitchen. Masa looks a lot more appealing, and comparatively cheap.

How about you? What's the most expensive meal you've ever had? Was it worth it? Could you spend $1000 in your part of the world? If you had as much money as you wanted, what would you choose to eat?