The Taste Brick Lane Awards event on March 23 – commissioned by Mayor Lutfur Rahman, who also attended – saw the TV chef judge the street’s best curry houses, and featured entertainment from jugglers and dancers.
The council said in response to a Freedom of Information request by a resident that it spent £47,176 of taxpayers’ money on the one day event.
Conservative Cllr Peter Golds called the sum “extraordinary”.