Four of the Most Expensive Foods in the World
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Living in New York City’s fast lane doesn’t come cheap, where some of the most expensive foods can be found, hitting as high as quadruple digits. Take a slice of the good life on an obnoxiously rich tour of NYC’s most expensive cuisine for the uber-rich, where some eats will leave you with a very full stomach — but a very empty wallet.
$1,000 Ice Cream Sundae
Did you ever think you’d pay $1,000 for a pizza? An omelet? How about an ice cream sundae? While for most of us this may exceed the limits of good taste — to others, they simply taste good.
Pizza
Nimo’s Bellissima Pizza makes THE most expensive pizza in the city of New York — a 12 inch thin-crusted pizza with fresh cream cheese covered with 4 types of caviar, lobster tail, wasabi, and served raw — all for a mere $1,000.
$1,000 Pizza
The high price tag in the pizza is all in the caviar, as each little dab of the good stuff is like sprinkling money on it.
Omelet
They say a good day starts with a healthy breakfast. But in Norma’s restaurant, the only thing healthy about this omelet is the cost, loaded with lobster and caviar and a $1,000 price tag.
$1,000 Omelet
The “Zillion-Dollar Lobster Frittata” omelet is made with Yukon Gold potatoes, eggs, lobster and rose sauce. But it’s the caviar on top that costs the most –- a lot of caviar, and you’re basically getting the omelet for free.
This massive offering of an omelette features a whole lobster, six eggs and 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, all served on a bed of roasted potatoes.
Ice Cream Sundae
What makes this ice cream sundae at Serendipity so expensive? The best ingredients in the world –- including Tahitian vanilla ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla, the world’s most expensive chocolate, and topped with real gold leaf –- which some claim to be very good for you.
$1,000 Ice Cream Sundae
It’s then topped with dessert caviar.
Cream Cheese Bagel
Times Square has been known to turn heads, but never before over a bagel. The Westin New York at Times Square takes carbs to the next culinary level with the $1,000 bagel. This one-of-a-kind fare features Alba white truffle, cream cheese and goji berry infused Riesling jelly with golden leaves.
Photo Pocket Change
Pound for pound, the white truffle is the 2nd most expensive food in the world, next to caviar. Grown in the Alba region of Italy beneath certain oak trees, the delicacy is in season from late autumn to winter.
If the $1,000 price tags are too healthy a price for your pocket book, New York’s finest offers a wealth of other foodstuffs fit for a king for those who still like to lead the life of excess.
Baked Potato
Christian Albin, Head Chef at The Four Seasons Restaurant says his baked potatoes sprinkled with white truffle shavings are “selling like really expensive hot cakes” at a mere $200 each.
Photo Evan Sung
Truffles are valued for their powerful, yet extraordinarily delicate aroma. Production is extremely limited, brought to you only by the bravest Italian dogs and pigs with the best ’sniffers.’
Albin describes the smell as intensive and distinct, but partner Julian Niccolini of the restaurant paints a more outspoken picture saying, “It smells like pure sex.”
“Romans were the first to make them famous,” he adds. “They would find one, hop into bed and eat it, and then have sex.
Hamburger
In an effort to maintain its standing as the most expensive hamburger rated by Pocket Change, the Wall Street Burger Shoppe raised its price on Monday from $150 to $175. Pocket Change previously designated the double truffle burger at Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne as the most expensive at $120, and the Burger Shoppe set out to top that.
$175 Hamburger. Photo Reuters / Brendan McDermid
To justify the cost for the “ultimate in decadence,” each 10-ounce patty is carefully formed from100% Kobe-raised beef — Wagyu cattle which are hand-massaged and beer-fed to create the most tender, perfectly marbled meat available.
The restaurant sears the burger to a perfect medium rare and placed atop a brioche bun with a generous layer of foie gras, shaved truffles, and aged gruyere cheese. The top of the bun is spread with a homemade truffled mayonnaise and real gold leaf flakes from Japan. The whole extravagance is garnished with an additional heavy handed helping of truffles and more gold leaf.
Available only during black truffle season from December to March, the restaurant sells 20 to 25 per month in the fine dining room upstairs versus hundreds of $4 burgers daily at the diner counter downstairs.
$175 Hamburger. Photo Reuters / Brendan McDermid
$175 Hamburger. Photo Reuters / Brendan McDermid
“Our burger is not about the price.” said Georgette Farkas, a Boulud spokeswoman. “If you are making something concerned only about the price, you are off in the wrong direction.”
O’Connell said the Burger Shoppe was “finding the ultimate expression of each one of the ingredients. The concept was like a mushroom-bacon-Swiss cheese burger, which is my favorite sort of burger.”
27-year-old Jeremy Abelson is the ambassador of excess and founder of the online newsletter Pocket Change which lists the most expensive items in New York, where you can see how the other 1% of the city lives.
Sources: Yahoo News, Reuters and Pocket Change
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Stupid to spend such a lot of money you go to the toilet the same way for a 1000 or a 1 $ hamburger, lol !
In her best Mr Magoo imitation she quips, “Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again!”
To have such a rough life that the high rolling consumers have, ‘eh? Even if I had that type of play dough, none of it would appeal to my taste buds. I’ve dined in five star restaurants and had a difficult time sitting without feeling guilty about the exorbitant prices -even when it wasn’t me paying the tab.
Just toss together a burrito made out of who cares what and this chicklet is one very happy camper. I even bring my favorite homemade salsa as a hostess gift.
Why don’t these people put the money to a better use? LOL
Hahaha, that’s one way of putting it, Gattina
I think if I was filthy stinking rich, I might try it just to taste it, but it wouldn’t be something I’d repeat, Mary Ann. But then, I’m just as happy with a hamburger or hotdog
No Doubt, Mig, there are SO many things that that kind of money could go to. But then, we’re speaking about those who enjoy self-indulgence to begin with
Hey, I’d love to try that omelet or baked potato–yum! Are ya buying my dear? If so, Let’s GO!
I’d love to try the Caviar Pizza & the lobster omelet. Yummy!
Well Kuanyin, if I were a wealthy girl, I’d take you up on that, my dear friend
I’d be game for everything as far as tasting goes except for the caviar, Betshopboy
yummmm Deborah
I want the ice cream sundae !!!
purleaze !!!!
and I’ll use the gold leaf for painting
$1,000 for a meal in bizzare.
$200 for a baked potato and it’s “selling like hotcakes”? That sounds like an exaggeration. But then it’s New York.
Though my brother and his wife did blow $400 for dinner on their anniversary. (It was a free voucher because he works for the restaurant company, but still…)
I think your idea for the gold leafing would be a much better use for it, Kim
The $200 for the truffle baked potato was very much accurate, Johnny, and most definitely not something I would pay for. But $400 for an entire meal for a couple for a special occasion is nothing outrageous, even from where I live. It’s not what I would do, but …
I guess these food should be kept in the museum. These should not be eaten.
A museum of fine foods, Keya?
Caviar is great and all, but dumping that much on top of the lobster tail fritatta seems excessive!
The Wagyu beef is great stuff though, you’ve gotta love that hand massaged cattle.
Can’t say I’ve ever tried it Angus.
Speaking about Gold and expensive food, I discover recently the latest chocolate collection from COCOA GOURMET. This Swiss chocolate artisan company will let you speechless. In case their website is http://www.swisscocoagourmet.com
Those are quite the collections, Celia
The rich eat this stuff , not because it tastes good, but because it is expensive. Take the omelet for example. Who eats lobster, caviar, eggs, and bananas. These people would eat a pile of sh** if it came from some extinct animal and someone slapped a $1,000 price tag on it.
I know, I know, it’s crazy, but I can’t remember the last time I had a whole damn lobster for breakfast.
You make a very good point Cody, I’m sure the majority of the uber-rich dine on these things merely because of the price tag.
Oh, no doubt, Daveyboy, that’s an awful lot of food for a breakfast.
OMG, that caviar pizza sounds so good. It would be like anchovies, but not as salty. I am going to try this at home.
The caviar pizza with lobster would go good anywhere. No reason to use expensive caviar. Most people cant tell a difference between Sturgeon or common Roe.
These dishes are novelties only because of the price. Not the taste. Anyone can mimic one of the at home with a little work.
Luckily, I don’t eat meat or caviar. The caviar seems to be the kicker. I’m a cheap date!
Hope they don’t choke on the diamonds.
Ouau, thouse food doesn’t look expensive but looks delicious
hmm, where i live $1US = $200 Guyana dollars and a weeks wages =$25 US. A $175 burger would feed at least 6 families for one week.
It makes it seem almost criminal, doesn’t it, Nanda?
$1,000 for a Lobster omlete?? Forget that… gimme a Denny’s grand slam breakfast for a fraction of the cost
So one day I got bored so my boyfriend and I went to New York…. All that food is surprisingly delicious and I would eat it again….. but I wont. Oh and for every dollar that i spent in New York I donated another to charity…..don’t assume about rich people….. its not nice..
Caviar has now become more affordable due to the growing production of American caviar. It no longer has to be imported as the trade is banned now from the Caspian Sea. Caviar has to be one of the foods you must try before you die!
Rene´s last blog ..American Caviar