By the end of the month, we are so broke, being able to afford food feels like a luxury. While we are happy with a medium-sized pizza and coke, there are people in this world who are splurging on luxury food, which well, is probably more than our salaries. So here, check out these food items that¡¯ll make you feel good and bad, at the same time - good, well, because it all looks super appetizing and bad because no way in hell you will buy these. ???
Price: $1,000 (?63,767)
Place: Serendipity 3, New York
Food World News
Well, who doesn¡¯t love cupcakes? And when it has Amedei Porcelana chocolate, premium Ugandan Vanilla beans, edible gold dust and gold sheets - it has got to taste amazing.
Price: $3,200 (?2,04,056)
Place: Bombay Brassiere, London
Bombay Brassieres
Like its name suggests, Samundari Khazana Curry is a seafood treasure. It¡¯s made from Devon crab, white truffle, Beluga caviar, gold leaf, a Scottish lobster coated in gold, four abalones and four quail eggs.
Price: $250 (?15,941)
Place: Berco¡¯s Popcorn, Chicago
Bercos
Who would have thought that popcorn can be THIS expensive? These are made with Nielsen Massey Bourbon Vanilla and Vermont creamery butter. After the popcorn is cooked, it is covered with 23 karat edible gold flakes and the famous laeso salt from Denmark.
Price: $190 (?12,115)
Place: Kai Mayfair, London
Blue Balu
As weird the name of this soup sounds, it¡¯s one of the most expensive soups in the world. To have this dish, you need to place the order five days in advance so the restaurant can source all the ingredients. It¡¯s made from shark¡¯s fin, abalone, Japanese flower mushroom, sea cucumber, dried scallops, chicken, Huan ham, pork and ginseng.
Price: $1,978 (?1,26,132)
Place: Filipino Chef Angelito Araneta Jr.
Foodandwine.com
You can request this dish from Chef Angelito. Each piece of sushi is wrapped in gold leaf and topped with caviar, three edible Mikimoto pearls and served with a diamond. No kidding!
Price: $1000 (?63,767)
Place: Westin Hotel, New York
The Westin
Go bagel or go home - these bagels are world¡¯s most expensive bagels. Each bagel has golden leaves, Italian truffle and a tiny amount of white truffle cream cheese, and goji berry-infused Riesling jelly.
Price: $2,400 (?1,53,042)
Place: Margo's Pizzeria, Malta
Fropky
Beating Chef Gordon Ramsay¡¯s White Truffle Pizza, Margo¡¯s Pizza now holds the Guinness world record for the most expensive pizza in the world. It contains 100 grams of white truffles along with a gold leaf, which pushes it to the top in terms of costly ingredients.
Price: $6,100 (?3,88,981)
Place: Hokkaido, Japan
Tokyo Times
The Black Watermelon is grown exclusively in Hokkaido, Japan¡¯s northernmost island, and only 100 of these watermelons are farmed each year. The most expensive one ever sold was 17 pounds heavy and went for $6,100 at an auction in 2008, making it the most expensive watermelon in the world.
Price: $1,000 (?63,767)
Place: Norma¡¯s Restaurant, Le Parker Meridien Hotel, Manhattan
Yummy.co
It is basically an omelette, which is packed with caviar worth $650. Apart from the expensive caviar, the dish has one whole lobster, eggs, cream and chives. There¡¯s also a scaled down version of this dish available at the same restaurant which costs around $100.
Price: $145 (?9,246)
Place: Capitol Dawg, Sacramento
Sactown Mag
The California Capitol City Dawg is an all-beef hot dog served with French mustard, saut¨¦ed shallots, mixed baby greens, garlic and herb mayo, Swedish moose cheese (which costs around $200 a pound), applewood smoked uncured bacon, pepper, tomato, dried cranberries, and a basil olive oil/cranberry-pear-coconut balsamic vinaigrette. It is then served in an herb focaccia roll toasted in white truffle butter.
Price: $3,400 (2,16,809)
Place: Beluga Sturgeon, Caspian Sea
Shivesh
Caviar is basically fish eggs, but the Almas Caviar is more luxury than just food. These eggs are harvested from the Beluga Sturgeon found in the Caspian Sea. They are so expensive because they look like little balls of gold. Taking it to the next level however, are the manufactures who even pack this in 24 karat gold tins!