Last night Susan and I met up with friends of ours for dinner at Atera. The idea of spending several hundred dollars a person for dinner seemed more than a bit crazy to me but I was proven wrong: it was completely worth it and I rank it among a small group of magical experiences that money can buy (right up there with say scuba diving). This is not a regular meal in any form. We had close to 30 different dishes and each of them was a uniquely enchanting combination of flavors and textures. Ev...