Have $5,000? Try Dinner And A Limo — For Charity!
For those of you who have an extra $625 — and seven other friends who do as well — here's a fun idea: Driven to Dine, an extravagant event benefiting the Florida Heart Research Institute on April 25. It's $5,000 per limo, eight people to a limo, and it starts with a cocktail reception at Don and Mary Anne Shula's Indian Creek house. There, you pick an envelope that will tell you to which of the 11 participating restaurants (listed below) the limousine will be taking you for a multi-course meal. It's all included in the cost, except for a way to get to the reception and home from the restaurant. You can get the limo to pick you up and drop you off for an extra fee. Interested? Go here for more details.
Check out the participating chefs and restaurants:
Acqua at the Four Seasons - Chef Patrick Boucher
Casa Casuarina - Chef Dale Ray
Escopazzo - Chef Giancarla Bodoni
Gaia Ristorante - Chef Gaetano Ascione
Gia- Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar at the Eden Roc - Chef Virgil Brandel
Meat Market - Chef Sean Brasel
Neomi's Grill at the Trump International - Chef Kurtis Jantz
The Oceanaire Seafood Room - Chef Sean Bernal
Red the Steakhouse - Chef Peter Vauthy
The Capital Grille - Chef Odel Arencibia
The Restaurant At The Setai - Chef Jonathan Wright
To those of us who don't have that kind of money, Escopazzo has a back room menu available from 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. with a selection of wine by the glass, a number of antipasti for $9, and some pastas for $12.
