Forbes magazine's latest survey of the most expensive restaurants in the world makes interesting reading, not least for the rather bizarre list it has formulated.
While compiling the world's most expensive restaurants makes interesting reading, this article clearly doesn't do as the headline suggests. It could be feasible that Aragawa - a steakhouse in Tokyo's Shinbashi district - is the most expensive restaurant in the world with dinner for one costing a wallet busting £200/head, but why has Forbes listed the other restaurants, some of which clearly aren't the most expensive in the world or probably even in their own city.
For example, is El Amparo in Madrid, costing £37.50 each, really the most expensive restaurant in Madrid? I doubt it. Closer to home, I also doubt that Gordon Ramsay's Royal Hospital Road restaurant - at £107/head - is the most expensive restaurant in London.
Over a year ago, Harden's restaurant guide 2005 put four London restaurants in the £100/head bracket. These were: Blakes, Sketch's Lecture Room, Umu and Le Gavroche, all of which are more expensive than Ramsay's flagship restaurant. I would guess that dining out at either Le Gavroche or Sketch would probably relieve your bank account of at least £120/head.
So what is the point of Forbes's survey, because it clearly isn't accuracy. Maybe it's just to get column inches - and on this count it has probably been successful, as lazy journalists and busy news desks opt to regurgitate someone else's work rather than do the research themselves.
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