Iron Chef meal

Wherein I notice the price doesn't even include a glass of tea

A New Orleans restaurant reopens with a special dinner. Poppy Z. Brite has a comment:

$175 for eight courses with communal seating? I don't theenk so, señor. Sakai-san is mighty, but Chen Kenichi is the only Iron Chef for whose food I'd consider paying that kind of money to sit with strangers.

Following the same Poppy Brite link, she also explains why New Orleans needs Carnival.