Eat like a baller - caviar and champagne dinner

[Miguelito]

For a "fraction" of the regular price, feast on caviar and champagne tonight:

On Wednesday April 4th, cancel all your plans and start booking for the “dinner of the year”. A sumptuous dinner, composed and created around with the best caviar money can buy.

This is a truly remarkable event for a fraction of the normal price you would pay for, as part of a launching campaign for Caviar & Traditions.

The menu will be accompanied by one of the best Champagne : Bollinger Special Cuvée

It's a $149 dinner tonight at Open Wine. It's not the largest of restaurants, but it's by no means small. I wondered, hmmm, is there truly a market for a $149 caviar dinner on a Wednesday night of all nights? Well, apparently there is -- tickets (yes, you needed to buy tickets beforehand) are all sold out. Maybe next time?

http://www.open-wine.com/events-functio ... hnom-penh/

[Hanno]

Caviar, the most over-rated item ever. I would have no problem spending $149 on a really good dinner, but certainly not for caviar.

[Miguelito]

Caviar, the most over-rated item ever. I would have no problem spending $149 on a really good dinner, but certainly not for caviar.

I think I'd leave a little hungry from that dinner. I'd probably need to go next door and get a burrito from Cartel after.

[Marinaris]

Caviar and truffles are over-rated !

[violet]

Caviar is pretentious nosh.

[YaTingPom]

Coffee is the most overrated foodstuffs. Smells amazing but the taste never lives up to the smell.

[ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ]

Caviar, the most over-rated item ever. I would have no problem spending $149 on a really good dinner, but certainly not for caviar.

It’s the only thing I ever remember eating and thinking afterwards ‘was that it?’
I don’t mind paying for good food, but to pay so much for something which only tastes fine at best is just nuts.
Am convinced most people just eat it for the image.

[Mèo Đen]

Was my favourite lunch venue from when it opened around 2005, it was then a wine shop that gradually morphed into a restaurant. I stopped going when I moved out of town five years ago. I think around that time they altered focus to target the fairly affluent Khmer clientèle. Over the last couple of years there seems to have been a demand from this demographic for the best food or wine available, and Open Wine have certainly risen to the challenge. A few shots from about 10 years ago.

[violet]

I walked into Open Wine a year ago thinking I would try it. I quickly backed out. Non existant atmosphere...actually, that's too kind. I felt I had walked in to a roadside diner that was the last stop before, and waiting room to, becoming the living dead. Holy smokes it was dreadful.

[Alexandra]

I was just there last week enjoying baller food for the regular cost.

What is the owner's relation to Norodom Sihanouk? I must say they look nearly identical. I didn't have the heart to ask the man, who by the way is very friendly and sharp.

[tombraider]

What is the owner's relation to Norodom Sihanouk? I must say they look nearly identical. I didn't have the heart to ask the man, who by the way is very friendly and sharp.

Don't know of the relationship but you'll often see many members of the royal family dining in there. I think Meo Den is correct that it is now positioned as a lunchtime spot for the Okhna's, the Great and the not so good. Happy to pay over the odds for average food in a soulless environment as violet pointed out, as welcoming as a french toilet. but not much lunchtime fine dining competition for them outside of the big hotels I guess....Vanns? awful lunch menu in a dark wooden setting so dark you may as well be in a wardrobe.

Perhaps our two fine dining experts Meo Den and Migs could proffer some alternative suggestions of where an Okhna may dine at lunch in this city.

[Hanno]

Caviar, the most over-rated item ever. I would have no problem spending $149 on a really good dinner, but certainly not for caviar.

It’s the only thing I ever remember eating and thinking afterwards ‘was that it?’
I don’t mind paying for good food, but to pay so much for something which only tastes fine at best is just nuts.
Am convinced most people just eat it for the image.

I was in Azerbaijan many years ago and was invited by locals. We ate caviar spread thickly on rye bread and I still thought "so what is the fuss all about?". Also worked in one of the best hotels in Switzerland whilst at hotel school. We'd serve a lot of caviar at horrendous prices (even before all the Sturgeon got wiped out). The most important thing for the guests when we served it was the show; we had to make damn sure the whole restaurant knew that the punter had just blown a lot of money on a can of fish eggs.

[Miguelito]

Half the world’d caviar is eaten in first class, it’s ridiculous. I do enjoy cavia, to be honest, as I really enjoy briny/salty things, and popping the caviar in your mouth is fun. But it’s stupidly over priced, and an entire meal themed on it is silly.

Perhaps our two fine dining experts Meo Den and Migs could proffer some alternative suggestions of where an Okhna may dine at lunch in this city.

You’ll definitely find some at La Residence, where there is both a $17 and a $30ish (forget the exact amount) lunch menu. Real bigwigs will be in one of the private rooms where there’s a $50 surcharge.

Malis ($18 menu) and Topaz ($35?) lunch menus will get in the Ohkna.

The current French power lunch spot is Brasserie Louis in the Rosewood. I’ve been there once, it was $17, but I heard they upped it a few dollars. I’m going Friday so I’ll let you know.

Playboy just listed a bunch of these the other day with good info.

Oh, Naga buffet would be good too.

[Dahon]

I actually checked out the website, it says "CAVIAR DINNER $149 per person includes Champagne during dinner". Now, nowhere do I see any mentioning whether it's free flow or not. If YES, then I could see a business case but otherwise, hmmmm, probably not. *I guess You'll receive a couple small glasses only, totalling 15 cl or so.