The most expensive food thread

[om3ga]

I know this isn't a food but a bar near Manchester sells a cocktail for £20,000

this is taken from a website about it...

the premium cocktails, the priciest of which is a £20,000 Harrington! What’s in it? Louis Tres French cognac and Cristal - plus a bespoke diamond ring gift certificate. At least you’re not going to choke on a rock when you drink it!

The bar is situated where all the footballers who play for the Manchester football teams live

Yeah - heard something similar when I started this thread:

http://board.freeones.com/showpost.php?p=694684&postcount=18

Guess only football players can afford that drink - also noticed the price for the drink has gone up.....

 

[D-rock]

The weird thing is as time goes by I am almost starting to like the cheaper food better. A lot of the more expensive food just doesn't seem that much different from some of the cheaper stuff, especially if it's made right. Plus I find it often to be healthier and I trust it more. Of course I am not talking about the super expensive stuff on this thread so I don't know about those.

 

[glk35]

The weird thing is as time goes by I am almost starting to like the cheaper food better. A lot of the more expensive food just doesn't seem that much different from some of the cheaper stuff, especially if it's made right. Plus I find it often to be healthier and I trust it more. Of course I am not talking about the super expensive stuff on this thread so I don't know about those.

chew dat i hate spending shit loads of money on a steak or some other food.
i have taken on a liking to fish sticks and mac and cheese lol. really. but i also am a very good cook so as far as any steaks or seafood or any other high dollar menu item i enjoy buying everything and cooking it myself. but somtimes it is nice to go out and spend a couple hundred on dinner and drinks any more then that i dont do the most i have spent was $230.00 i've done $100.00 several times but now that i have a baby no more i'd rather spend it on him.

 

[om3ga]

The weird thing is as time goes by I am almost starting to like the cheaper food better. A lot of the more expensive food just doesn't seem that much different from some of the cheaper stuff, especially if it's made right. Plus I find it often to be healthier and I trust it more. Of course I am not talking about the super expensive stuff on this thread so I don't know about those.

Let's hear it for:



(actually - the ONLY Maccy D grub that doesn't make me feel ill after eating it....:1orglaugh )

 

[om3ga]

Ever eaten out, asked for the bill and had a bit of a fright with the bill? You certainly would if you visited one of the world's most expensive restaurants.

Details:
The World's Most Expensive Restaurants

After reading that link, I am SO glad I can cook.....

 

[squallumz]

the most expensive thing i ate was sharks fin soup. i didnt pay for it but i remember it was up there. 135 a bowl or something.

 

[om3ga]

Another item to add to the "expensive food" thread (posted elsewhere, but I thought of this thread):
A luxury hotel in Indonesia has cooked up an exotic million-rupiah ($110) hamburger, thought to be the world's most expensive, in a bid to marry Western food and Asian flavour.

Vindex Tengker, the executive chef with the Four Seasons Hotel who created the dish, said 20 of the burgers had sold since going on the menu early last December.

"The idea is not that we are selling the most expensive hamburger. It is our dream to marry the East and the West through food," he told AFP.

The seven-ounce (200-gram) burger is made from finest Japanese Kobe beef with wasabi mayonnaise and Italian portobello mushrooms in a home-made onion-wheat bun.

It is served with Asian pear and French foie gras plus, of course, French fries and is washed down with a glass of wine.

Details:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/22/061222090145.gozuisis.html

But for the ULTIMATE in luxury (or stupidity - take your pick):

Back in 2005 the Associated Press reported about a diamond-studded Christmas cake that went on display in Japan, as one of 17 diamond-related designs in an exhibit called "Diamonds: Nature's Miracle."

The Tokyo pastry chef who created the work of art said it took six months to develop the design and one month to actually make the cake, which was edible.

The cake went up for sale at the price of $1.65 million and included 223 small diamonds which had to be removed before it could be consumed.

Details:
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=456&sid=642582

 

[dave_rhino]

When i was in a resturant in Canada, i saw "Lobster and Steak" in one meal, so i got it.

I didn't even think of the price. It came to like $65 just for the main dish.

But i didn't care.

Lobster and steak in one meal! Woo!

 

[om3ga]

(cough, cough)

Time to blow the cobwebs off this thread.....but for more ominous reasons:

The World Food Crisis
Q&A: Rising world food prices
Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites
Economic woes hit American stomachs

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Kobe Beef is pretty expensive, but god damn is it delicious. If anyone is ever in Hollywood, I suggest going to Lucky Devil's and getting their Kobe burger.

 

[gunslingingbird]

I walked by a fancy restaurant on my way to the subway from work the other day. Out of curiosity I decided to stop for a minute and inspect the restaurant's menu displayed on the window. I was shocked. The average price of a soup/salad was $15 dollars, for chicken it was $28 dollars, steak was $38 dollars, and seafood was $45 dollars. Holy fucking shit! I know that there are people that have enough money to wipe their asses with $100 dollar bills, but $28 dollars for grilled chicken breast seems quite excessive to me, and that's not even the most expensive restaurant in town.

I read an article online last year that named THE most expensive restaurants in the US. There was a Japanese restaurant in New York where the average was $1,000 dollars for a 36-course sushi dinner complete with fugu. Los Angeles had a place where dinner was somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 dollars. In San Francisco, I think the most expensive was called the French Laundry, at a relatively modest $400 dollars for a 3-course meal. Even with fast food, there is a place in Chicago that sells $50-dollar hamburgers. With the exception of the drinks that come with a diamond swimming at the bottom, I can't fathom why anybody would ever blow that much money on something as trivial as a meal.

 

[marquis2]

Ever worked out how much you pay for potatoes when you buy a packet of crisps?
For our US friends, crisps is what you call chips. Chips are of course what you call fries.