Cork-Screwed! A ‘Thirty-Seven-Fifty’ Bottle of Wine Really Costs $3750.00 at an Atlantic City Casino

A gentleman decided to order a bottle of wine from Bobby Flay Steak at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.  However, he got quite the sticker shock!

Joe Lentini is not a big drinker, so when asked at a business dinner to pick a bottle of wine for the table of 10, he deferred to the server.

According to NJ.com, here's what happened next,

"The host of the dinner -- the guy who would be paying the bill -- told Lentini to pick a bottle, Lentini said.

"I asked the waitress if she could recommend something decent because I don't have experience with wine," Lentini said. "She pointed to a bottle on the menu. I didn't have my glasses. I asked how much and she said, 'Thirty-seven fifty.'"

The only problem is that 'thirty-seven-fifty' was actually 'three-thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars!'

The Borgata issued a statement that says the casino stands behind the server at the Bobby Flay restaurant and that the correct protocol was observed.  The restaurant agreed that they could drop the price of the wine to $2200.

Again, according to NJ.com,

"T.J. Foderaro, Inside Jersey magazine's wine columnist, called it "absurd" for a waitress to recommend a $3,750 bottle to a guest who doesn't regularly order such bottles.

"And even more absurd that she’d answer `thirty-seven fifty' when asked the price, knowing full well that most people would understand that to mean $37.50," Foderaro said."

What do you think?  I would be embarrassed if this happened to me.  And I would think that a restaurant of that caliber would recognize the honest mistake.

But that's just my opinion.