When you get scolded by your boss, you usually try to treat yourself, right? Bag of cheddar chips, sleeve of Oreos, extra guoc on that burrito. Beleaguered 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith is no different than you, it appears — except his comfort food is of the four-figure variety.
According to the Chronicle's Leah Garchik, Smith and teammates Glenn Dorsey and Antoine Bethea took their significant others to Twenty Five Lusk on Saturday night for a lavish night out, just one day after the National Football League suspended Smith for violating the league’s policies on personal conduct and substance abuse.
Smith's had a rocky few years, including a July no-contest plea to three illegal gun and two DUI charges brought by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office after a wild party at Smith's house that left him stabbed in the chest.
In April, Smith was arrested at LAX for allegedly making a bomb threat to a TSA agent, but prosecutors eventually decided against charges in that case.
Smith was also arrested in September 2013 on suspicion of misdemeanor drunken driving and marijuana possession after he crashed his vehicle into a tree on the front lawn of a San Jose home. That September incident wasn't Smith's first alleged DUI, though: he got nabbed on similar charges in Miami back in January of 2012.
Though Smith entered a live-in rehabilitation program for alcohol abuse after that second DUI arrest, it appears that he has no trouble celebrating! According to Garchik, Smith and his five friends spent $6,300 dining at the "modern restaurant and lounge featuring seasonally driven New American cuisine" on Saturday.
Each player, Garchik reports, had two main courses, which appear from 25 Lusk's menu to run a fairly reasonable $30-$40 per plate. Somehow, however, they managed to put away nearly $3,300 in food and $3,000 in wine. Here's their wine list if you want to do the math on that one, but, honestly, it seems way easier to spend $3K on booze there than $3.3K on food. But I don't train or eat like an 6' 4" 265 lb. NFL player, so who's to say?
Their server, who they must have kept quite busy, was tipped $1,000, Garchik reports.
Smith will be back at work when the Niners play the New York Giants during Week 11 of the 2014 season. Until then, perhaps he can get started on his sentence for those gun charges: three years of probation, 11 days in a work program and 235 hours of community service.
That is, once he's done digesting everything.
