What is one of the most popular ways of celebrating something across the world? No prizes for guessing splurging on a good restaurant meal. Sometimes, when the occasion demands it, spending your hard-earned money on something luxuriously expensive seems worth all the splurging, right? Yeah, we all love to spend on a fancy meal here and there.
We are lucky that there are restaurants around the world that can make your gastronomical experience an out-of-the-world one! Are these foods sumptuous? Yes, Wallet-draining, you bet! And they are popular too, so you can guess people love to loosen their purse strings and indulge in them from time to time. We give you a lowdown of the five most expensive dishes across the world.
Westin Hotel Bagel
There is an inextricable link between New York and bagels. If you are a New Yorker, you would love to dig into sinful bagels and will transport you into a gastronomical paradise. We don’t know how you like to pair your bagels with, is it with cream cheese or bacon. Well, no Saturday mornings are complete with your kind of bagels.
But if you would like to indulge in the next level bagel, you have to stop at the Westin to taste one that costs $1,000! But it tastes sinfully rich and right down delicious with white truffle cream cheese and flecked with gold flakes. The last time they served this was in 2017, and since then, there is a public demand to have it back on the menu!
White Truffle and Gold Pizza
Who loves pizza? Well, we do! We bet everyone will collectively answer in the affirmative when asked the question. Pizzas are the most loved dishes worldwide, and that sumptuous topping of cheese can make us forget the problems in our lives. But what if a pizza sets you back by $2,420?
Yeah, that’s right, Margo’s in Malta can deliver your comfort-food and make it high-end for discernible customers. No wonder it finds its place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The gourmet pizza has a thin-crust base topped off with buffalo mozzarella, white truffles, and yes, hold your breath. The peppering is with a 24-carat edible gold leaf. Just a small size can cost you $250 per slice! Lavish yet delicious!
Beluga’S Almas Caviar
Caviar, just the name of it, conjures up an image of something insanely expensive and hedonistic. It would cost you something around $9884. It is served at Beluga, the only caviar specialist restaurant in Dubai. And a small portion of the 250 grams of Beluga’s Almas caviar would cost a whopping US$ 9884. Almas is also popular as ‘King of Kings’ in the caviar world and is as rare as it is expensive. This dish comes with a 24-karat Golden Cigar and costs around worth US$ 422.
Black Diamond Ice Cream
Dubai boasts of a world full of Haute couture clothes and fancy and indulgent foods crowding the menu charts. No wonder that they would call it the land of billionaires. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, no wonder it serves some of the most expensive foods you have heard of.
Here, we are describing one of the most expensive scoops of ice creams ever. The Black Diamond ice cream at Scoopi Cafe is an indulgent Madagascar vanilla ice cream sprinkled with vanilla truffles, Iranian saffron, and yes 23-karat gold flakes. To make it a more decadent experience ever, it is served in a Versace bowl with a Versace spoon. One scoop of this sumptuous affair can cost you $817!
Samundari Khazana
The world’s most expensive curry is not available in India but at an Indian restaurant in London. Kensington’s Bombay Brasserie serves the most amazing dish you could ever hear of ‘Samundari Khazaana.’ It is a seafood curry filled with edible gold, devon crab, beluga caviar-filled quail eggs, and white truffle. It is rich in Indian herbs and spices. This culinary luxury can set you back by £2,000.
Many celebrities are fans of this dish and celebrity guests such as Nicole Kidman, Freddie Mercury, Kurt Russell, and Woody Allen frequent this restaurant. Well, if you want to be in the hallowed company of these celebs, then visit one of these restaurants and enjoy these mouth-watering delicacies. But yes, it will set you back by several thousand.