It was a dinner fit for, well, for David Beckham. A potato curry with coconut rice, and a bowl of gelato was the order of the evening, with a couple of Steinlager Pures to wash it all down.
This after a day awash with hongi and greetings, pressconferences, interviews and mayoral receptions - plus a transtasman flight for good measure - on an afternoon when everyone wanted a piece of Becks.
He arrived at Wellington's Monsoon Poon restaurant just after 9.15 on Thursday evening and stole the spotlight.
"He was good, very thankful, polite," says restaurant manager Iion Richards.
"We took him around the back so he was out of the way a little bit.
"We were told to keep other people away from him until he'd finished his meal."
There was one security guard at the bar, two by the table and one out the front.
Of course when you're a mega-star, you have no privacy.
Midway through dinner, an astonished 28-year-old project manager, Brooke Riley, watched as Becks sat down at the next table.
Later she got talking to him and said he was "a really cool guy".
"I think it was really nice that no one was annoying him. He was quiet, and just nice, and really friendly."
In all, Beckham and his entourage stayed two hours.
Photos: Beckham at training