10 Most Expensive Foods In The World
The very Rach are privy to an array of incredible experiences most of us will never come within shouting distance of which is why we tend to regard them with a strange kind of jealous fascination we'd all like to know even if just for a day what it's like to spend money like water fly on tricked-out private jets wake up in a multimillion-dollar home and hang out with celebrities and supermodels but if you're a foodie we're about to give you several more reasons to be jealous ten of them to be exactly assembled from all around the globe these culinary delights are off-limits to all except those with ridiculous amounts of money to spend there the ten most expensive food items in the entire world and unless you're among the super-rich yourself they'll empty your wallet just as quickly as they'll fill your stomach.
10- Special delivery pizza 4200$
We start things off with one incredible pizza one, you'll never find on the menu at Domino's in 2006 world-renowned chef Dominique oak role of Glasgow Scotland created a pie intended for a st. Valentine's Day meal which he dubbed the Pizza Royale double-oh-seven it's unclear why he chose the James Bond reference perhaps he needed the superspy to hunt down all of his ultimate pizzas ingredients among the pies more extravagant toppings were caviar soaked in fine champagne choice cuts of smoked salmon and lobster marinated in the finest Cagney AK available then for good measure, he topped off the assembled pizza with a healthy amount of 24 karat gold shavings fortunately all of this decadence was for a good cause the pie was created to raise funds for the Fred Hollows foundation a non-profit with the goal of eradicating preventable blindness in developing countries at auction on eBay, the pizza brought home a winning bid of $4,200 snatching the record for world's most expensive pizza from a slightly less extravagant white truffle pie created by London's maze restaurant which is owned by none other than famed chef Gordon Ramsay.
9-The fortress stilt fisherman indulgence 14500$
This oddly named confection was once considered the world's most expensive dessert and it can only be found in one place at the Fortress Resort and Spa in Sri Lanka at its base it's simply a casaba a traditional Italian sponge cake but this cake has been tricked out with enough expensive fillings and decorations to make it worth slightly less than your average new car the cake itself is flavored with a fruit-infused Irish cream and filled with a mango and pomegranate compote with a Dom Perignon champagne sabayon adorning the dessert will be hand carved chocolate sculptures of the stilt fishermen which can be seen throughout the area along with delicate edible leaves of gold and to top it all off the dish is decorated with an 80 carat aquamarine stone this incredibly flavored sublimely constructed dessert is truly one-of-a-kind but if you want to indulge bring your platinum card the amazing seaside resort may boast sweets starting from only a couple hundred dollars but the stilt fishermen indulgence will tack a hefty $14,500 onto your bill.
8-English wagyu beef pie 15900$
The fence gate in in Lancashire UK is home to the world's priciest beef and mushroom pie it's a traditional dish enjoyed by Brits of all stripes but this version as you might have suspected uses slightly fancier ingredients than tradition demands to start with the pie is stuffed with about $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef which is only obtained from one of four breeds of cattle native to Japan the chef then adds exquisite matsutake mushrooms which go for about a thousand dollars per pound black truffles in the requisite gold leaf are then added before marinating the entire mixture in two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild red wine which itself rings up at about forty two hundred dollars per bottle it's then baked inside an expertly prepared crust the pie is served with champagne and can feed eight people which is a good thing because this is one bill you're going to want to split the entire pie costs fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars or just a little under $2,000 per slice but the chef claims that it's totally worth it to experience the best beef and mushroom pie you'll ever taste in your life.
7- Yubari melons 29000$
Melons are something of a delicacy in Japan since they're difficult to grow there which can make them pretty pricey the dongsu que a rare black watermelon grown only on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido is the world's most expensive watermelon but it was put to shame in 2008 by a pair of cantaloupes which sold for over three times that amount at auction the melons grown in the Yubari region of Hokkaido were judged along with over a hundred others as part of a competition before the auction and took home the top prize they were purchased by a local restaurant owner and businessman for the princely sum of 23 thousand dollars for a time they were the most expensive melons ever sold but in 2018 the president of a Japanese fruit and vegetable packaging company commemorated his firm's 30th anniversary by purchasing to prize you berries for the equivalent of 29,251 US dollars the melons were kept on display for a couple of months before being cut into pieces which were given away for free to customers just so a few lucky common people could experience the reportedly otherworldly taste of the king of melons.
6-The real death chocolate 25000$
The serendipity 3 restaurant is a New York landmark having been featured in several Hollywood feature films including one even titled serendipity and famous for their frozen hot chocolate which sounds a little counterintuitive but is apparently so good that Jackie Kennedy once tried to steal the recipe serendipity 3 produced a sundae called the golden opulence which was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert in 2004 but it only cost a mere thousand dollars the restaurants owners soon decided it was time to outdo themselves and did they ever the frozen house a chocolate a decidedly higher-end version of their famous dessert is made from a combination of 28 expensive chocolates from Africa and South America it's topped with 23-karat gold shavings and a truffle imported from France and the drink is served in a gold blind crystal goblet adorned with an 18 karat white gold bracelet even the spoon it's served with is made of solid gold and yes you get to keep all the adornments which is a good thing because the frozen hot a chocolate will set you back a whopping $25,000.
5-The king taco 25000$
Ranvir sluice caboose is a five-star resort in Cabo San Lucas Mexico an area where you could probably pick up a fantastic taco on any street corner but if you're looking for a truly singular taco experience and have money to burn you'll want to stop by Grande Velas frida restaurant to check out the culinary masterpiece created by executive chef Juan Liguria Acala the world's most expensive taco begins with Kobe beef and langoustine a type of front indigenous to Norway almost beluga caviar and black truffle brie cheese are added to the mix along with a salsa made with exotic Morita chili peppers the taco is served in a gold flake infused corn tortilla and you can see what true luxury tastes like for the low price of only $25,000 as long as you've got that kind of money laying around you might as well order drinks too a handcrafted white gold and platinum bottle of lai 925 pacion Azteca ultra premium Anna Haute Aquila can be served on the side for only an additional $150,000.
4- It’s the caviar of caviars 32000$
Speaking of Alma's caviar if you end up enjoying it on your incredibly pricey taco you may want to hunt some down for yourself it won't be easy it's made from the pure white eggs of an endangered fish the albino beluga sturgeon which is only found in the Caspian Sea also the fish that the eggs are harvested from must be at least 100 years old as you might expect this makes Alma's caviar one of the rarest foods in the entire world even your average run-of-the-mill caviar is practically synonymous with a luxury lifestyle but Alma's caviar is so scarce that even those who have the means to sample it might find it hard to come by the white gold holds a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive caviar of all time around 32,000 dollars for just a kilogram of the stuff of course chef Alcala over at the Granville s resort seems to have a pretty good source so if you have 32,000 dollars lying around and just have to know what the fuss is all about maybe he'll hook you up.
3-The pudding to end all puddings 35000$
The Linda Thile country house is a four-star hotel in Windermere Cumbria UK its head chef Mark Weber knows that his countrymen and women love a good pudding and apparently reasoned that the very very rich ones would need a very very expensive pudding to satisfy their tastes with this in mind he created the fanciest pudding on the planet made from four varieties of Belgian chocolate which are considered the best anywhere infused through this special blend our essences of peach orange and whiskey along with edible gold leaf and champagne-soaked caviar the concoction is served in an edible Faberge egg and then just to up the fancy quotient as much as humanly possible it's topped with an actual diamond just keep in mind that if you're planning a visit to Linda Howe and want to sample the world's most expensive pudding for yourself you'll have to order it at least two weeks in advance.
2-Italian white alba truffle 160000$
The Y Talbot rifle found only in the lung Haiyan Montferrat areas of northern Italy is one of the priciest foods on earth they're extremely hard to cultivate and highly sought-after but from October to November each year you can visit the region's truffle fair which attracts buyers from all four corners of the globe even regular truffles can fetch up to $300 per pound but the white Alba recognizable by its cream-colored flesh and distinctive marbling is only for those with insane amounts of money to burn they generally go from $3,000 to about $23,000 per pound and some larger specimens have sold at auction for truly dizzying sums of money a Hong Kong real estate investors shell that $160,000 for a truffle weighing about 3.3 pounds and in 2010 a pair of them sold for a whopping $330,000.
1-Liquid gold 275000$
The world's most expensive food is actually a beverage and there's only so much of it that exists in the world it's a 1907 hi-tech far from the world's oldest champagne but it certainly has a more interesting story than any vino any of us have ever tasted in 1916 the Swedish freighter jönköping which counted several cases of the wine in question among its cargo was sunk by a German u-boat and it remained at the bottom of the ocean for 80 years fortunately these conditions were ideal for champagne storage the pressure on the ocean floor was roughly the same as the inside of the bottle and of course the precious cargo was shielded from life the ship was raised in 1997 and about 2000 bottles were recovered although not all of those were in salable condition you can buy the current vintage of the same champagne online for around $120 per bottle but if you want to try the shipwrecked version which sources say is absolutely mind-blowing bottles are currently going at auction for an incredible $275,000.
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