25 Most Expensive Restaurant Dishes in the World

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This interesting article will tell you about the rarest and incredibly expensive food and dishes. You can sample them only in a few unique restaurants, and some are only available for sale at an auction.

Almas Beluga Caviar

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Almas caviar is a rare white caviar of albino beluga, which these fish lay once every hundred years.

This delicacy is packaged in 100 g jars made of pure gold and sold for $25,000 per jar.

White Truffle

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Truffle is the king of mushrooms and one of the most expensive foods in the world. It grows underground. There is no set price per kilogram for it, each mushroom is sold at auction.

One of the sold truffles weighed about 1.5 kg and cost $160,000.

FleurBurger

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FleurBurger is made from marble beef. It is served with Chateau Petrus 1995 wine, foie gras, and truffles.

This pleasure will cost $5,000 per serving. A bit pricey for fast food.

Pufferfish

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Pufferfish is a legendary exotic dish that can even lead to a lethal outcome if it is not cooked properly. Only experienced chefs trained in cookery courses can work with this poisonous fish.

The cost of the fish is about $300.

Matsutake Mushrooms

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Matsutake (matsutake) mushrooms mostly grow in Japan, as well as in China, Korea, Sweden, the USA, Canada, and Finland. In addition to their excellent taste qualities, they have medicinal properties. There are fewer of them on Earth because insects destroy trees on which these mushrooms grow, and there is no other way to grow them.

Their cost is about $2,000 per kilogram.

Arnaud Strawberry

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The dessert known as Arnaud Strawberry can be tasted at the Arnaud restaurant in New Orleans. The dish consists of strawberries and vanilla ice cream drizzled with wine sauce and… garnished with a 47-carat pink diamond. Restaurant patrons are also served the most expensive wine with it.

The strawberry with the diamond will cost more than $1 million.

“Macaron” of Pierre Hermé

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The Haute Couture almond cookie was invented by the confectioner Pierre Herme. The ingredients of the Haute Couture cookie include red wine, balsamic vinegar, sea salt, peanut oil, and more.

A box of this fashionista cookie costs over $7,000.

Ice Cream “Golden Opulence”

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The creamy vanilla Golden Opulence ice cream is notable for being served with a sheet of pure gold.

In New York, at the Serendipity restaurant, it can be tasted for $1,000.

Bagel

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The most expensive bagel is spread with cream cheese, “seasoned” with white truffles and goji berry jam, and decorated with a sheet of gold.

The dish will cost $1,000. Such a price is due to the high cost of truffles.

“Fisherman on Stilts” Dessert

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At The Fortress Resort and Spa hotel in Sri Lanka, the local “Fisherman on Stilts” dessert is served. The fisherman figure is made of chocolate. Fruits, sabayon with Dom Perignon champagne, gold foil, and a real aquamarine mineral are used as decorations, which guests can take home as a souvenir.

To enjoy this amazing local dish, you will have to pay $14,500.

Platinum Cake

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The Platinum Cake is made in white tones and covered with chains, necklaces, and pendants promoting the wearing of platinum jewelry.

Such luxury costs $130,000.

Chocopologie by Knipschildt Chocolate

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In the US, chocolate is prepared for $5,200 per kilogram. The product is made from natural fresh ingredients and has a short shelf life.

Black Densuke Watermelon

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The Black Densuke Watermelon is a rare berry grown on the island of Hokkaido. The flesh of the Densuke watermelon is dense, smooth, and incredibly sweet to taste.

An 8-kilogram Densuke watermelon was sold for $6,100.

Premium Frittata

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The Premium Frittata costs $1,000 per serving. This “million-dollar omelet” is made from eggs, lobster, and Sevruga caviar.

“Samundari Khazana” Curry

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The “Samundari Khazana” curry contains white truffles, Scottish lobster, beluga caviar, Devon crab, and sea ears. Cherry tomatoes wrapped in gold leaves and quail eggs stuffed with caviar complete the dish.

The cost of this dish is 3.2 thousand dollars.

Pizza by Renato Viola

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Italian chef Renato Viola prepares the most expensive pizza in the world. The dough is fermented for three days and is topped with sturgeon caviar, lobster meat, and langoustine fillets. The pizza is sprinkled with cheese made from buffalo milk.

The 20-centimeter pizza costs 8.3 thousand euros.

“Faberge” Chocolate Pudding

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The “Faberge” chocolate pudding is served at the Lindeth Howe Country House hotel restaurant. The pudding is made with oranges, peaches, whiskey, four types of Belgian chocolate, gold foil, and champagne caviar. The main decoration of the dessert is a real diamond.

This masterpiece costs 34 thousand dollars and is served in an egg-shaped Faberge dish.

Florette Sea and Earth salad

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Florette Sea and Earth salad is made from langoustines, lobsters, Cornish crab, and “Almas” caviar. The salad also includes vegetables of elite varieties and truffles.

You can try this dish for $1000 by visiting the Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons hotel in Oxford.

Wagyu Beef Steak

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The Wagyu beef steak costs $2,800. It is made from the meat of Wagyu cows, which are fed with beer and given massages to make the meat tender.

“Buddha Jumps Over the Wall”

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The “Buddha Jumps Over the Wall” Asian soup is prepared at the Kai Mayfair restaurant in London. This dish includes Asian ham, pork, chicken, ginseng, shark fins, Japanese “flowering” mushrooms, rare mollusks, dried scallops, and sea cucumbers. Even Buddha would jump over the wall to taste this dish.

“Golden Phoenix” Cake

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The “Golden Phoenix” pastry is almost entirely made of gold and is served at the Dubai Mall cafe-boutique.

The dessert is made using elite strawberries, whipped cream, Italian cocoa, vanilla pods from Uganda, golden syrup, and flakes of edible gold foil.

The presentation is also exceptional – the $29,000 dessert is served in a basket with a spoon made of pure gold.

Blue Dumplings

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The Golden Gates restaurant prepares dumplings from pork, veal, and salmon. The addition of fish torchlight iron gives the dish a greenish-blue color.

A serving of eight dumplings costs $2,400.

“Royal” 007 Pizza

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The “Royal” 007 pizza is the creation of Domenico Crolla. The pizza is topped with Scottish smoked salmon, pieces of lobster marinated in cognac, venison soaked in champagne, caviar, prosciutto, balsamic vinegar, and edible gold as decoration.

Are you willing to pay $4,200 for such a pizza?

Kopi Luwak Coffee

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When talking about expensive dishes, it’s worth mentioning drinks as well. The most expensive coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak. Coffee beans are eaten by civet animals (Asian palm civets), and the product passes through their digestive system and comes out naturally untouched. The taste of the beans changes during digestion.

The cost of this coffee is approximately $100 for every 100 grams.

“Scarlet Robe” Tea

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“Scarlet Robe” is one of the most expensive teas on the planet. It is grown on Mount Wuyi. There are only six bushes of this tea in the world, and they are already 350 years old, so the harvest is very small.

At an auction, 20 grams of this tea can be sold for $25,000.