Cooking, BBQing, Food, etc

[Michael]

Do it. You'll never forget that experience.

I pulled the trigger. I figure I can always scalp 'em.

[haltz]

You should go. I need to live vicariously here.

[Michael]

I'm looking at the damage on my credit card and all I can think is "What have I become"? I was actually forced to buy the season pass. It also includes their Sicily and Kyoto menus as well.

Hah, you should come up here and join me. My wife isn't even super interested in going. She doesn't care for tasting menus and this one has 29 courses.

[Michael]

Someone just offered me 2k for my 2 tickets. I'm going to have to take that.

[Maclowery]

Holy crap, that's insane. Yeah man keep that profit. I don't want the best meal of my life to even come close to a freakin' thousand bucks.

/edit: After now reading about the absurd hype about this whole shebang, man, I don't know. I'm with Haltz. I want to be a guy who knows a guy online who went to one of the absolute most high-end hyped-up dining experiences of the past few freakin' decades. First, Albert now Michael! The Humanity!

[Michael]

I sold the tickets for 2.5k. I paid $1450 for the package with 3 meals. So I still own the other meals (Sicily and Kyoto) for free and I made $1050 on top of that. The opportunity for same day elBulli tickets exists, so I still have options.

Not bad.

[maddash]

I love the concept behind Next, and there's no doubt the El Bulli menu food would be awesome, but I'm not sure I would be able to get over the fact that I'd be paying that much money to see what amounts to a cover band.

[Michael]

I love the concept behind Next, and there's no doubt the El Bulli menu food would be awesome, but I'm not sure I would be able to get over the fact that I'd be paying that much money to see what amounts to a cover band.

If there's another person in the world who can deliver elBulli, it's Grant Achatz, but I don't disagree with what you're saying. The thing that I disliked about the elBulli menu is they forced me to buy the wine pairing. I'm not a huge fan of wine and it really jacked up the price.

[Radbird]

Just tried this and man is it good.

[lukethedrifter]

Didn't get the beef brisket corned for St Pat's so instead I'm smoking it today.

Did stop by Mom's yesterday for corned beef and cabbage dinner and the meat was surprisingly good. She got it from Freddie's, where they must have corned it in house.