New York man eats 18 star restaurants in one day- CNN.co.jp
Eric Finkelstein dined at 18 Michelin-starred restaurants in 24 hours
Published Wednesday 2023.01.11 16:45 JST
(CNN) A New Yorker recently set a Guinness World Record for eating at 18 Michelin-starred restaurants in 24 hours.
Healthcare IT consultant Eric Finkelstein (34) took up the challenge last October and was recognized by Guinness World Records last month.
He said in a telephone interview with CNN on the 10th that it took a year and two months to prepare. More than half of the challenge is the planning phase of getting restaurant support and finding viable routes.
The former table tennis player holds the world records for the longest ping pong serve (15.57m) and the largest mosaic made with ping pong balls with two friends. After learning about the challenge of conquering Michelin-starred restaurants in an online food group, he recalls, “I thought that was it.”
At first, he contacted about 80 restaurants, but only 10 responded. Unfortunately, four of these restaurants were excluded from the 2022 edition of the Michelin Guide, which was only published 20 days before the day’s release. He hurriedly looked for another restaurant and managed to make a reservation.
We started the day with a grilled avocado salad at the French restaurant “Le Pavillon” in Midtown Manhattan. We went to the caviar specialty store “Caviar Luz”, the Asian “Tsume”, the Scandinavian restaurant “Aquavit”, etc., and ended with the Japanese food “Noda” with sea urchin and caviar chawanmushi.
The meal cost $494 (about 65,000 yen), excluding tax and tip, and took 11 hours. I think I ate about 5,000 calories in total.
His previous role was to finish everyone’s leftovers, and ended up being so full that day that he barely ate anything the next day.