Exorbitant bills for meals out can be one of the most jarring encounters in modern life.
If you weren’t expecting it, you can bet your evening has just taken a turn for the worse.
And if you were expecting it, perhaps because the location was chosen by someone else and, for whatever reason, you didn’t want to protest, the whole meal might be eaten through gritted teeth.
When you’re on holiday, the fear of getting lumped with a mammoth bill can be heightened considerably if you aren’t fluent in the local language or your Google Translate app is on the fritz.
What do all those little notes mean?
Or, more terrifyingly: where are the prices?
For some, of course, money is no issue, and an unassailably massive bill might get waved through without a second’s thought.
That seems to be have been the case for one table at a restaurant in Majorca, with the hosts playfully posting the receipt to their Instagram page to ask: “Whose bill is this? Tag them below, please – we’d like to talk…”
The receipt shows a bill amounting to a mind-bending €63,237 (£54.7k) for a single night’s food and drink. You could honestly feed the 5,000 for less.
Of that, around €45,000 went on ‘various fish’ that, for that price, must have been some kind of endangered delicacy.
The Palmanova-based Annabel restaurant later said the feast was split between around 18 visitors and noted that a celebrated American sports star may have been in attendance.
Regardless of who supped at the venue that night, it’s difficult to imagine spending that much cash on a meal, even between 18 people.
It’s such an astronomically-high total that the receipt has become the talk of the island, and it’s had plenty of social media attention too.
“The most expensive thing was the fish,” noted one social media user. “Taste like pure gold 45,000 euros fish.”
“€45,000 per fish?” said one who might want to read the receipt again. “Were they gold fish, platinum fish, or diamond fish?”
One salient question asked: “What kind of absurd expensive fish live in the Balearic Sea around Mallorca? Or elsewhere? Can someone enlighten me, please?”
Among the other heavy-hitting menu items were a pre-tax €480 bottle of Don Perignon Rosé and a Louis Cristal Rosé at €590, so it’s fair to say the €45,000 fish were washed down handsomely.
It really puts the £25 pie and mash at The Farmer's Dog into perspective, doesn't it?
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Rachael Davis