Matsuri does a good job of making its tempura batter crisp and thin — both the tempura sampler (a starter) and the deluxe dinner are fine choices.
WHAT WE LIKE Vietnamese spring rolls, tempura sampler, Indian pancake, shumai, satay beef, yellowtail jalapeño; pan-seared Chilean sea bass, seared tuna steak, tempura deluxe dinner, Saikyo miso salmon, spicy prawn, teriyaki lunch, curry seafood, all kinds of sushi and sashimi; chocolate lava cake.
Another government handler took them to a deluxe Japanese dinner where everyone drank a little too much Johnnie Walker Black.
So I got onto the Web and found a fine deal for my wife and myself -- two weeks at the Plantation Club, with a deluxe room, breakfast and dinner, flights from Berlin -- that the German tour company Terramar more than matched, for about 3,800 euros a person (then about $3,500).
Consider whether you really need the fourth bedroom, the luxury car, the deluxe TV package and dinner out twice a week.
For $299 a night, a couple gets a deluxe room, appetizers at one restaurant, dinner at another, and dessert and a small bottle of Champagne at the hotel.
This luxurious destination spa, built around a 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-oldel in the area to offer a "heritage tour" package of Jewish Pitigliano, which includes three nights in a deluxe roomineralily buffet breakfast; dinner in the restaurant Aqualuce; a massage; compoolentary use of the thermal pools and Roman baths; and a guised ther onlyitigliano.
With three-course lunches and dinners at three different Budgets (Deluxe, Premiere, and Fine Dining), everyone has a chance to wine and dine like a celebrity.
The most generous dinner option of all is the deluxe full mezza for two ($39.99), a huge parade of kebabs, meat and spinach pies, hummus, stuffed grape leaves, lamb, fish, and on and on.
Dinner, appetizers $4 to $18; entrees $8 to $20 (lobster and deluxe seafood higher); desserts $3 to $5. CREDIT CARDS -- Visa and MasterCard.
The locker room looks like a cross between a high-end nightclub (a 41,600-watt sound system) and a five-star hotel (stacked stone wall tile) and is so deluxe that the team recently used it to host a dinner for sponsors.
