C'MON ASK FOR A REAL DINNER
MAKE THE GUY PAY!!!
THE $1,000 OMELETTE
May 19 2004
EGGSCLUSIVE... and Mirror man is the first person in the world to eat it!
By Anthony Harwood, US Editor
THE Americans all steer clear of it, but I've just become the first person to eat the world's most expensive breakfast.
Stacked high with caviar and encasing a whole lobster, this is one gigantic omelette you definitely won't find at the local greasy spoon
BIGG EGGPENSE: Anthony and, below, his bill
But it's the price of the breakfast, not the food, which really gives you indigestion - setting you back 1,000 dollars (£570) before tax and a tip.
Before I started devouring the Zillion Dollar Frittata, a waitress walked round the room at New York's Le Parker Meridien Hotel ringing a bell to herald the historic event.
The whole restaurant stopped and I sat down in front of the monster dish to a round of applause.
Sevruga caviar is supposed to be eaten sparingly on a canape, but soon I was putting away a mountain of the stuff - enough for 10 people - with only a shot of chilled vodka to see it down.
And under the 10oz of fish eggs was 1lb 8oz of lobster encased in egg on a bed of fried potatoes.