Painful spending cuts may have led the White House to halt public tours, but President Barack Obama and Republican Senators could need to loosen their belts, not tighten them, after their peacemaking dinner at a super-swank Washington, D.C., restaurant on Wednesday. How swank? The eatery features a menu with a $1,776?per person?price tag, excluding tax and tip.
Obama invited the GOP lawmakers to the tony Jefferson Hotel, home to Plume restaurant, in a bid to break the partisan logjam and forge a deficit-cutting deal. Plume is widely considered among D.C.'s finest.
The group ?will be dining from the 'Plume' menu," a hotel source told Yahoo News.
So, alas, they may not be ordering the actual "1776" menu, or even the more-modest-but-still-lavish $85 menu?one dollar for every billion of the $85 billion in cuts slated to go into effect this year. Who's going to pick up the tab? White House officials wouldn't say on the record.
So what makes the $1,776 menu so special?
?It pairs the evening's ever-changing tasting menu with wines that date, collectively, over the past 237 years,? according to hotel spokeswoman Meaghan Donohoe.
?For instance, this could include a 20-year-old champagne, Grand Cru White Burgundy, a Bordeaux from one of the five 1st growths, and a glass of Madeira from 1790,? she said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/amid-spending-cuts-obama-gop-dine-style-193045298--politics.html
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