Anyway, soon after, I bought a Titanic cookbook of my own: Last Dinner on the Titanic by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley (I passed on RMS Titanic: Dinner is Served by Yvonne Hume, the great-niece of the ship's first violinist; that subtitle is a bit too disturbingly cheery even for me).
EL BULLI, currently the most influential restaurant in the world, will serve its last dinner on July 30.
For our last dinner on the island, we headed to Ship to Shore, a wood-paneled restaurant in Darnley run by John Bil, a two-time North American oyster-shucking champ, and Stephen Stewart, a mussel grower.
The draw is so powerful that nearly 400 people tried to reserve seats for the "Last Dinner on the Titanic" at the Culinary Institute of America here on April 15.
Our last dinner on the trip was at the Range, a tiny, cash-only restaurant in Santa Margarita, about eight miles north over a steep grade with breathtaking mountain views.
At the creators' last dinner on Friday night before Bono and the Edge left for a U2 tour in Australia, Bono said bluntly that the show "won't get out of the gate" and have a chance to catch on with audiences if technical problems persist, as they have in rehearsals.
