A ditzy diner is in deep truffle trouble after mistakenly taking a bite out of a $750 chunk of the pricey delicacy that she thought had been a free sample.
The woman was walking through Washington D.C.’s upmarket Equinox restaurant when she spotted the valuable white Alba fungi under a glass dome, reports the Washington Post.
Thinking it was a sample, she took a silver dollar-sized nibble before ditching the remainder on her bread plate.
The astonishing blunder came to light minutes later when restaurant co-owner Ellen Kassoff Gray clocked the half-eaten delicacy discarded on the customer’s table.
To add insult to injury, the unidentified woman told Kassoff Gray she hadn’t even liked the truffle’s flavor.
Kassoff Gray took the remainder of the gourmet foodstuff over to her husband and co-owner chef Todd Gray.
“He said, ‘That’s a $300 bite!’ It was one of the costs we had to eat, literally,” she added.
Luckily for the customer, Kassoff Gray decided not to charge the diner for her costly accident.
The glass case had been set up to promote the restaurant’s vegan brunch buffet – which offered truffle shavings for a $20 surcharge.