The Independent lists pricey meals

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 12th 2005 at 5:08PM

Forbes weighted in on the most expensive restaurants and now The Independent has a piece on the priciest meals around. What's the fastest way to make something expensive? Throw a little truffle on it. Gordon Ramsay's £100 pizza is a woodfire-baked pizza topped with onion purée, fontina cheese, mozzarella, cep mushrooms, pancetta, wild mizuna lettuce leaf, and shavings from a £1,400 Umbrian white truffle. The article also mentions New York's DB Bistro Moderne, which offers a $99 Burger Royale, a burger which includes foie gras, root vegetables and a double portion of fresh black truffles. It seems to be a rather truffle-heavy list. No caviar? No rare fish (except a mention of the shark fin soup at Kai)? No super-premium wagyu beef from cows who have spent their lives in pampered bliss? They do however mention the Ritz Sidecar, one of the most expensive cocktail to not involve a diamond somehow swimming in the bottom, it is sold at the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Paris and uses 1865 Ritz cognac and costs a cool 400 euros. Too bad they can't float some truffles over the top and really ratchet up the price.

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