Despite being one of our most basic needs, food can reach dazzling heights of extravagance. Among the most pleasurable of luxuries, fine dining is a multi-million dollar industry. Here, we explore the most expensive food items in the world, without out the consideration of restaurant settings. The question is can you really taste every penny’s worth?
1. Caviar – Long regarded as the most ilustrious delicacy, Almas Iraninan Beluga cut from the belly of the sturgeon fish, the oldest survivor of the dinosaur era and native to the Caspian Sea. The lighter the colour of the caviar, the older the fish and more valuable with Almas being a pearly white colour. This is the rarest type of caviar available, hence the most expensive at $25,000 per kilogram. Its is served on toast and handled with mother-of-pearl or ivory utensils.
2. White Truffle – European White Truffle is one of the world’s most expensive and sublime foods. The Italian white truffle comes from Langhe area of Piedmont region in Italy. These truffles are sold at an amazing price of ($1350 – $2700 per pound) €2,000 and €4,000 per kilogram . They are extracted from an open ground with the help of specially trained truffle hogs or more recently, dogs. While in the past chefs used to peel truffles, in modern times most restaurants brush the truffle carefully and shave it or dice it with the skin on so as to use most of this expensive ingredient.
3. Club Sandwich – Something that may vary ugely in price and quality, the club sandwich is a restaurant staple. But thanks to English chef James Parkinson, the von Essen Platinum club sandwich at the Cliveden House Hotel near London is also the world’s most expensive sandwich at $197. Weighing just over a pound, the triple-decker delicacy is made of the finest ingredients , including Iberic
o ham cured for 30 months, quail eggs, white truffles, semi-dried Italian tomatoes, and 24-hour fermented sourdough bread.
4. Most Expensive Pie – Based on a traditional English steak and mushroom pie, serving eight with a total cost around $15,900, or $1,990 per slice, which includes a glass of champagne. This dish consists of $1,000 worth of most expensive Wagyu beef fillet from Japanese cows, $3,330 worth Chinese matsutake, two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild at a cost of about $4,200 each, as well as black truffles and gold leaf.
5. The Most Expensive Pizza – No ordinary Italian classic, the most pricey pizza in the world, valued at ($12,173) €8300 can be tasted in Italy. With generous toppings of expensive caviar and lobster, the pizza has a diameter of 20cm.
6. Most Expensive Omelet - The most expensive omelet in the world can be tasted at the Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York. The $1,000 omelet consists of 10 ounces of sevruga caviar, a whole lobster, and six eggs.
7. Most Expensive Chocolate - Chocoholics beware! At $2,600 per pound, Chocopologie by Knipschildt Chocolatier of Connecticut is the world’s most decadent box of chocolates. But don’t expect to just drop in and buy one on a whim . . . they’re available on a preorder basis only.
8. Most Expensive Dessert - For those with a sweeter tooth, surely nothing can taste as good as the $1000 sundae served at Serendipity 3, a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s made up of 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23K edible gold leaf and one of the most expensive chocolates in the world, Amedei Porceleana. Its was listed in the 2004 Guiness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert.
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