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Juliesue and Matthew Goldwasser may be the biggest fans of the Mesa Grill ever. The Boston couple spent $722 to buy their way into a sold-out dinner prepared by Bobby Flay at the Las Vegas outpost of his restaurant as part of the 2010 Vegas Uncork'd food festival.

They spent that money because the tickets, face value $190 a person, were sold out. It was Matthew's birthday and they had failed to get tickets to the event the year before.

"All I want for my birthday," Juliesue recalled her husband saying a few months ago, "is to attend that Bobby Flay dinner in Las Vegas."

The couple, whose first Mesa meal was at the Las Vegas location four years ago, now plan vacations around trips to the Bobby Flay-helmed restaurants in New York, the Bahamas and Las Vegas.