Food for the Rich

Are you born rich? Do you have millions of dollars you don’t know where to spend? Are you expecting to win a lottery? Or do you just want to spoil yourself spending a day in the shoes of the rich? If you ticked any of the options above then you are just in the right place. Join us as we walk you through a list of the most expensive foods in the world. These foods will help you get rid of all that unwanted money you own in no time. These foods are expensive due to factors such as uniqueness, unusual flavours and rarity of ingredients. So foods are they and what ingredients make them expensive?

Le Burger Extravagant:

As we all know anything with “Le” in front of it is usually fancy and extravagant. Served at the New York restaurant Serendipity 3 this burger costs $295 and needs to be ordered 48 hours beforehand. The burger is recognised by the Guinness book of world records as the most expensive burger in the world. It is made of some of the most lavish ingredients in the world such as the Japanese Wagyu beef, white truffle butter, some fancy hand formed cheese, shaved black truffles and a fried quail egg. Still seems a little dull and boring? The burger is sure to spoil you even more as it is accompanied by a gold toothpick encrusted with diamonds.

The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate: 

Moving to the most expensive dessert in the world it seems like Serendipity is planning to create a monopoly for serving the most expensive foods. Serendipity 3 holds the record for most expensive dessert (The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate) in the Guinness book of world record. Not to mention that the previous world record for the most expensive dessert was also held by Serendipity 3. Yes, that’s true!

The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate costs $25000 and has a Lead time of around two weeks. The dessert is a blend of 28 of the rarest, secret and most costly cocoas in the world, milk, ice cubes whipped cream, five grams of 18 carat gold mixed in and shavings from the world's most expensive truffle, the La Madeline au Truffle ($2,500 a pound). The dessert is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet lined with edible gold. To make it even more extravagant there is an 18 karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of diamonds attached to the goblet and the delicacy is served with a golden spoon decorated in white and chocolate diamonds which the diner can take home.

The Samundri Khazana:

The Samundari Khazana meaning Seafood Treasure is the most expensive curry in the world. The curry is served at the Posh central London curry house Bombay Brasserie and cost $3200. It is a mix of the most expensive ingredients found in the world including caviar, sea snails, quail eggs, a whole gold coated lobster, truffles and even more edible gold.

 The Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata:

The Zillion dollar frittata is the most expensive Frittata in the world. Costing around $1000 dollars, this frittata is offered at Norma’s, Le Parker Meridien hotel, New York. The delicacy  is made with six eggs, 10 ounces of exclusive sefruga caviar ($65 per ounce), an entire lobster, cream and chives. The dish has a less expensive version costing around $100.

Domenico Crolla’s “Pizza Royale 007″:

This 12-inch pizza, costing $4200, is packed with the world’s most expensive ingredients such as  lobster marinated in cognac, venison medallions, caviar soaked in champagne, Scottish smoked salmon, prosciutto, sunblush tomato sauce,  and vintage balsamic vinegar. In addition to all these fine ingredients, it’s topped with a substantial amount of edible 24-carat gold flakes. 

By Mahnum Tariq