Grand Opulance Sundae at Serendipity in NYC

by Sandy Maple (RSS feed)
May 9th 2007 at 3:02PM

At Serendipity in New York City, you can rub shoulders with celebrities while enjoying gourmet burgers, chicken and fish. If you still have room for dessert, try the Grand Opulence Sundae. At $1,000, it is considered the most expensive ice cream treat in the world.

How to make this extravagant dessert? Start with 5 scoops of premium vanilla ice cream made from Tahitian Vanilla beans and Madagascar Vanilla and cover them in 23k edible gold leaf. Drizzle the whole affair with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana and chunks of rare Chuao Chocolate. Then suffuse the sundae with Parisian candied fruit, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. Place a tiny bowl of Grand Passion Caviar on top and serve in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18k gold spoon. For the finishing touch, add a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel. There you have it. If you want it, Serendipity requests 48 hours notice to prepare one just for you.

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Shellie May 18th 2007 6:49PM

I couldn't even enjoy eating this, thinking of how there are people going to bed hungry night after night, right here in our country. Hey, DQ makes a mean sundae!

enemyofsocialdistortion May 18th 2007 6:54PM

this is such a pity, no wonder the world is getting more disgusting than it is. its because rich people are polluting the environment.

g May 18th 2007 6:59PM

Why do I get the feeling some of the ones eating this crap are making their money off of the price of gas this week? As much as I envy anyone who can afford a $1,000 sundae, I am disillusioned with myself for making it possible. I'll be especially thankful when I see the income taxes taken out of my check this week and know that, while they are eating caviar on ice cream, they are doing so in a government sponsored loophole. The American Dream is working because we are. Who's got time for ice cream?

enemyofsocialdistortion May 18th 2007 6:59PM

people are so disgusting.

es May 18th 2007 7:11PM

mmmhhmmm.......$1,000 bucks just to say they ate it then they can stick their pretty little fingers down their pretty little overpaid throats just to puke it up later..........what a waste of human space!

F M Richbourg III May 18th 2007 7:12PM

No one can argue that it's not beautiful to look at, and it may taste wonderful, but this sundae will knock several months off you life span. The gold could be somewhat healthy, but all that sugar is pure poison. So the poor souls who waste $1,000 on those things are getting what they truly deserve, a more rapid trip to the place where it never cools down.

They would be far better advised to purchase an excellent nutrition book (Jordan Rubin's "The Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness" springs immediately to mind only because I'm reading it now and it is unusually well researched), join a gym, start lifting weights and take ballroom dancing lessons. Choosing this path or some intelligent variation thereof would add many healthy years to their life span during which time they could be helpful to enormous numbers of people. They could do this by spending their considerable excess funds financing TV programs on PBS showing everyone the way to live healthy much longer through proper nutrition and exercise. Sounds like a wise plan to me.

enemyofsocialdistortion May 18th 2007 7:11PM

word to what you said g. everythings corrupt.

enemyofsocialdistortion May 18th 2007 7:15PM

these rich people are so full of themselves.

terry May 18th 2007 7:19PM

jonathan doen
this is the first time I have ever been moved to actually join in on one of these "comments" about silly stuff...but:
without even going on to "the next 20 comments", I see that all but yours calls this what it is: a disgusting sham aimed at the truly selfish people that happen to have the money to waste on pure stupidity.
it's interesting that you would mindlessly spend a couple thousand dollars on yourself to eat this hideous concoction, apparently aimed at idiots such as you who seem to have have more money than brains.
I wonder, if you have that kind of money, if you have ever spent a couple thousand of dollars to do anything worthwhile in this world. did you send money to the victims of the tsunami? do you give money to any homeless shelters, abuse centers, terminal or debilitating disease foundations, to gifted artists or musicians who need patronage, underprivilged children anywhere...or does it just make you feel really good to eat a thousand dollar bowl of ice cream and fish eggs?
bon appetit!

Jeremy May 18th 2007 7:31PM

I think it sounds good and if u have enough money to spend on that kinda thing go for it

Tommy May 18th 2007 7:54PM

that is just ridiculous honestly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jill May 19th 2007 11:30AM

Who can eat 5 scoops of ice cream in one sitting.....?

Carol May 19th 2007 2:19PM

Johnathan Doen... will you take me w/you on your next trip there ? :) ...to everyone who thinks people shouldn't spend money on this,,I'm sure people that can afford that dessert do give lots of $$ to needy organizations.... I would love to have that much $ to afford extravagance like that...ohhh would love to live like the other half :)

Mandas May 18th 2007 8:08PM

One thousand dollars to spend on something that last all but minutes, rot away a the rich's porcelain teeth, and quite frankly, crap out bricks of gold just to show off and gain the false title of "extravagance." To anyone that swallows the "I'm-better-than-you" excuse of a dessert, forty-eight waiting hours for that garbage on a platter is a waste of more precious, valuable life that you will never be able to get back.

Ninny May 18th 2007 8:42PM

1K ooh u have to be kidding me.. that is what my rent is.. wow a sundae or rent hmmm thats a no brainer.....And I bes be able to keep the cup and spoon , cuz if not in my bag it goes.. *Big Smile*

Cindy May 18th 2007 8:59PM

Do you know you could feed a whole orphanage in the
Sudan for a month on that money. It makes me so sick I almost want to dry. Americans are the most greedy, selfish and wasteful people. God help us all.

clonz4 May 18th 2007 10:20PM

I would much rather have a scoop of Chocolate Pecan ice cream for two dollars and twelve cents from HANDEL'S ICE CREAM. It was voted number one in the World from National Geographic in 2006.

Hannah L May 21st 2007 10:47PM

THat ice cream is a masterpiece! The restaurant is actually called Serendipity 3 and the stars don't go there anymore because Oprah publicized it on her show.

Carol May 19th 2007 2:35PM

Hi... MAD - AS-_ HELL... I don't blame you ! I am sure people with enough $$ to buy this dessert are also giving plenty to needy organizations !.... Wish I had enough $$ that I could be extravagant ! God has blessed you ! ohhhhhh to live like the other half !! would love it !!...plus I am sure the chef has paid a lot to go to school and has years of experience in cooking, so he is happy he can create such a beautiful and delicious dessert ... and there is people who can induldge in his magnificant creation !!

Psychomaze Jun 7th 2007 9:10AM

What I can do with a thousand dollars is pay my rent for my self *and* for my roommates for a month (750 total) - or pay three months of my share of the rent, plus make a car payment for a month (225) plus fill up my tank of gas for a week and a half (which will eat up the remaining 25 bucks)

This decant desert is so often given to the undeserving who have no concept of a real day's of hard work.

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