19 Most Expensive Food Items Prepared Around The World

Are you willing to spend over 6 figures for any meal?

If yes, then this article is for you.
If not, ask your super-rich friend to buy it for you. 😀

To be honest, no matter how much of a food lover you may consider yourself to be, these happen to beyond your budget. The richest of the rich indulge in the most expensive foods the world has to offer – just because they can.

Here are 19 meals that can help you wipe your bank account in no time.

1. The Most Expensive Pizza

Name: Margo’s Pizzeria
Place: Malta
Price: $2400 (Rs. 160,343)

I think a pizza with white truffles and 24-carat gold leaf and buffalo mozzarella over a thin, traditional crust deserves all that much money.

 

2. The Most Expensive Dessert

Name: Frrrozen Haute Chocolate Ice-cream Sundae
Place: New York
Price: $25000 (Rs. 1,670,248)

The dessert is infused with 5 grams (0.2 ounces) of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold. At the base of the goblet is an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds.

 

3. The Most Expensive Curry

Name: Samundari Khazana
Place: London
Price: $3200 (Rs. 213,791)

The Samundari Khazana curry, meaning Seafood Treasure, is a mix of caviar, sea snails, a whole lobster and even edible gold.

 

4. The Most Expensive Steak

Name: Wagyu Ribeye Steak
Place: Kansas City
Price: $2,800 (Rs. 187,067)

The meat on this steak is so tender you barely need to cut a knife through it. That soft!

 

5. The Most Expensive Omelette

Name: Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata
Place: New York
Price: $1,000 (Rs. 66,345)

With $650 worth of caviar sitting atop the expensive omelette, the extra $350 is made up of one whole lobster, eggs, cream and chives, the dish’s main ingredients.

 

6. The Most Expensive Bagel

Name: Westin Hotel Bagel
Place: New York
Price: $1000 (Rs. 66,809)

The pricey bagel, that is topped with white truffle cream cheese and goji berry infused Riesling jelly with golden leaves is surely a marvel.

 

7. The Most Expensive Burger

Name: Glamburger
Place: London
Price: $1100 (Rs. 73,490)

The burger is made with Kobe Wagyu beef and New Zealand venison to create a 280 gram patty seasoned with smoked Himalayan salt. In the middle is black truffle brie which melts when cooked.Lobster poached in Iranian saffron and maple syrup coated streaky bacon also feature in the bun alongside Beluga caviar and hickory smoked duck egg covered in gold leaf. The bun is also coated in gold leaf and seasoned with Japanese matcha and cream mayonnaise.

 

8. The Most Expensive Hot Dog

Name: California Capitol City Dawg
Place: Sacramento
Price: $145.49 (Rs. 9720)

The bun is made of a 15-inch herbs-and-olive-oil focaccia roll custom-made by boutique coffee-maker Old Soul of Sacramento. It’s smeared with Italian white truffle butter and toasted on the grill.The bacon is sourced from a small farm in New Hampshire, it’s marinated in maple syrup and double-smoked over apple and cherry woods. And the toppings include moose cheese, plus Pommery whole-grain mustard from Meaux, France, garlic-herb mayonnaise, caramelized sauteed shallots, mixed baby greens, chopped tomato, dried sweetened cranberries, ground peppercorns and fruity balsamic vinaigrette from the Chef’s Olive Mix store in Old Sacramento.

 

9. The Most Expensive Soup

Name: Buddha Jumps Over The Wall
Place: Fuzhou
Price: $190 (Rs. 12,693)

The shark fin soup or stew consists of many ingredients, especially animal products, and requires one to two full days to prepare. A typical recipe requires many ingredients including quail eggs, bamboo shoots, scallops, sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, fish maw, chicken, Jinhua ham, pork tendon, ginseng, mushrooms, and taro.

 

10. The Most Expensive Sushi

Name: Gold leaf-wrapped Sushi
Place: Manila
Price: $1978.15 for 5 pieces (Rs. 132,160)

Each piece of sushi is wrapped in gold leaf and topped with caviar, three Mikimoto pearls and served with a diamond.

 

11. The Most Expensive Ham

Name: Albarragena Jamon Iberico de Bellota
Place: Spain
Price: $2,682 for a 15 pound ham (Rs. 179,184)

The special and expensive ham is made from pigs that were only fed acorns and roots to give them a distinctive flavor. The ham is then cured for three years before being put in a handmade wooden box with an apron handmade by a Spanish tailor. Each ham comes with its own DNA certificate confirming its authenticity, so you know what you’re getting.

 

12. The Most Expensive Watermelon

Name: Densuke Black Watermelon
Place: North Japan
Price: $6100 (Rs. 407,540)

This special watermelon comes from the land that is famous for it’s weird and wide experimental varities of watemelons. The Densuke Black Watermelon grows only in the island of Hokkaido and is famous for its black rind, sold at similar prices.

 

13. The Most Expensive Truffle

Name: Italian White Alba Truffle
Place: Manhattan
Price: $160,406 (Rs. 10,716,716)

The intricate white veining and marbling throughout the Alba truffle produces an aroma and flavour that is gastronomically unique, wonderfully intoxicating and comes only from the small market town of Alba, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy.

 

14. The Most Expensive Mushroom

Name: Matsasuke Mushroom
Place: Japan
Price:  $2225 per piece (Rs. 147551.88)

Japan’s answer to the black truffle, these mushrooms are handpicked by the people. That apart from it’s much in demand flavor makes it special and expensive.

 

15. The Most Expensive Spice

Name: Saffron
Price: $15 per gram (Rs. 994.73)

Saffron is one of the most expensive spices that is available, the reason being that like the Matsasuke Mushroom, this is also hand picked.

 

16. The Most Expensive Bread

Name: A loaf of bread made from 23-carat gold and champagne.
Place:  North Wales
Price: £75 (Rs. 5399.49)

Made with champagne and 23-carat gold, this loaf of bread is the most expensive in the world.

 

17. The Most Expensive Chocolate

Name: Le Chocolat Box
Place: Door County (New York)
Price: $1.5 million (Rs. 663,45,000)

The box has a collection of gourmet chocolates from Lake Forest Confections and jewelry from Simon personal jewelry collection and you can find this box with necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets depending on your choice.

 

18. The Most Expensive Sandwich

Name: Quintessential Grilled Cheese
Place:  New York
Price: $214 (Rs. 14,197)

Quintessential Grilled Cheese features layers of the extremely rare Caciocavallo Podolico cheese which is aged in special caves.
The bread is baked using Dom Perignon Champagne and brushed with truffle oil that contains flecks of edible gold. White truffle butter is also smothered on the slices before its stuck on the grill. Its edges are then covered in 24-carat gold leaf and the sandwich is served with a tomato and lobster bisque which is presented in a baccarat crystal glass. The sandwich must be ordered 48 hours in advance.

 

19. The Most Expensive Coffee

Name:  Kopi Luwak Coffee
Price:  $600 (Rs 19,900)

The main factor of it’s high price is the uncommon method of producing such a coffee. It has been produced from the coffee beans which have been digested by a certain Indonesian cat-like animal called then palm civet or also civet cat. This is the reason kopi luwak is also called cat poop coffee or civet cat coffee.

Moral of the story: All you need are ‘some’ money, a few plane tickets and an empty stomach.

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