NJ Man Charged $3,750, Not $37.50 For Bottle Of Wine At Bobby Flay Steak In AC

The Daily Meal Staff|

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — That's really something to whine about!

Last week, Joe Lentini of Hazlet, New Jersey was dining at Bobby Flay Steak at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.

The host at a table of 10, told Lentini to choose a wine.

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

Everyone at the table agreed to the price and ordered the wine.

When the bill came, the wine, Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011, was $3,750 — not $37.50 as Lentini thought.

Lentini said he called the waitress over and explained the mix-up and that he would never have ordered a nearly $4,000 bottle of wine.

"I said the waitress told me it cost 'thirty-seven fifty,' not 'three-thousand, seven-hundred and fifty dollars,'" Lentini told NJ.com.

After a back and forth, the restaurant said the best they could do was lower the price to $2,200 which several diners split, Lentini said.

And how was the wine after all that? "It was okay. It was good. It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. It was fine," Lentini told the paper.

Bottles of wine at Bobby Flay Steak start at $34 and go all the way up to $30,000 for an imperial six liter Chateau Petrus, Pomerol 1998.

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