World’s Most Expensive Foods
March 20, 2008 - 79,656 views
The world of the rich and famous is fascinating for many of us. They lead the life many of us want and they do what we only dream of us. Being a food fanatic, this time we’ll have a look at the most expensive foods in the world, most expensive drinks, deserts or spices.
1. Saffron, a spice grown worldwide, is derived from the saffron crocus flower. A pound of dry saffron (0.45 kg) requires 50,000–75,000 flowers to make, meaning an entire football field of these flowers. Requiring so much resources and labor, prices for the spice go around US$500/pound to US$5,000/pound (US$1100–US$11,000 per kilogram).
2. The most expensive nut in the world is the Macadamia nut. The macadamia tree produces nuts only after it’s 7-10 years old, requiring fertile soil and heavy rainfall. These nuts have a very hard seed, but once it’s open it reveals a creamy white kernel containing up to 80% oil and 4% sugar. The cost of a kilogram of these nuts exceeds 30$.
3. The most expensive caviar in the world is not the black one, but the almas caviar! The word ‘almas’ is Iranian for diamond. Beluga caviar comes from a fish over 100 years old, that is virtually unchanged for 120 million years. The luxurious caviar comes from the oldest survivor of the Dinosaur era. Beluga caviar ranges in price from more than $5,000 per kilogram in the United States
4. The most expensive mushroom in the world is the white truffle. The mushroom has its origins in the Langhe area of the Piedmont region in northern Italy, it can reach 12 cm diameter and 500g. These truffles are sold at a amazing price of €2,000 and €4,000 per kilogram ($1350 - $2700 per pound). The record price for this truffle was paid last year, in December, when Stanley Ho, the owner of the Macau casino paid $330,000 for 1.5kg of truffles.
5. The most expensive potato in the world is a French one, “La Bonnotte”. Annually, only 100 tons of this top quality potato are cultivated and collected only on the island Noirmoutier. The potato fields require to be fertilized only with seaweed in a climate shaped by the nearby sea. The cost of one single kilogram can reach €500 since this type of potato is almost extinct.
6. The most expensive beef in the world is the type of beef coming from the Wagyu cows. These Japanese cows are fed the best grass and provided the best treatment. That is why the meat is especially tender and particularly expensive. 200 grams of a fillet cost in Europe more than 100 dollars.
7. The most expensive sandwich in the world is the club sandwich from Essen aka von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. This triple-decker delicacy contains the finest chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles and it’s currently sold at Cliveden, Berkshire. The chicken (poulet de Bresse) is referred to as the ‘fourth gastronomic wonder of the world served with a topping of white truffles, sold at over a thousands ponds a month. At 1,182 calories, with 1.8oz of fat, it’s not the healthiest dish but certainly one of the most expensive. Costing 100 pounds (almost 200 dollars), this is a must-try for the food fanatics.
8.The most expensive pizza in the world, valued at 8300 Eur can be tasted in Italy. With generous toppings of caviar and lobster, the pizza has a diameter of 20cm and Louis XIII Remy Martin cognac poured all over it.
9. 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. To make it in the privacy of your own home, the cost will be only $700.
10. Off to something sweet now with one of the most expensive deserts in the world, served at Serendipity 3, a popular restaurant in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The $1000 sundae was introduced in 2004 and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert. 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.
11. The tastiest and most expensive chocolate in the world is Chocopologie by Knipschildt. At $2,600 per pound, this handmade chocolate truffle is available only if ordered. t contains a black truffle and 70% Valrhona cacao.
12. The world’s finest and most expensive coffee is Kopi Luwak. The coffee comes from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the total annual production is only around 500 pounds of beans. That is why the price of a pound is outrages - $300 or more.
13. The current record for the most expensive tea is held by a rare Chinese green tea called Tieguanyin, which costs 1,700 Yuan ($3,000) per kilo (per 2 lb 3 oz) approximately 8.50 Yuan ($15) for a single cup.
14. The world’s most expensive tea bag for the PG company, to celebrate their 75th anniversary. Manually decorated with 280 diamonds, the bag made to remind people just how much they love the great British cup of tea is worth £7,500.
15. The most expensive champagne in the world is Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque Blanc de Blanc, made of specially selected grapes, sold in manually painted bottles and with a price tag of around $1,500.
16. The most expensive whisky in the world is considered to be the Macallan Fine Rare Vintage. With only 85 bottles being released world-wide, tasting this 30 year old is a rare treat. Price for a single bottle? $38,000!
17. Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum is merely the top-selling high strength rum in the world, bottled in 1940. Only four bottles are left from this precious liquor, each being estimated at $53,000.
18. The most expensive cocktail in the world, “Diamonds-Are-Forever”, has no special ingredients like we had so far. The only excuse for wearing the €11,000 price tag is that the olive is replaced by a 1.6 carat diamond. To be found in the hotel Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo.
19. The most expensive beer in the world costs around £500 (around $1,000) a bottle and is called Vielle Bon Secours. It can only be found in a bar called the Bierdrome in London.
20. The most expensive drinks list will eventually come to dovka. Diva Vodka, produced by the Blackwood Distillery in Scotland is the world’s most expensive vodka. Depending on your choice of “crystal decoration” the price of a single varies from £35 to a staggering £540,000!
21. Kona Nigari water, takes the title for the world’s most expensive water. The desalinated water high in minerals from the deep seas off Hawaii, costs $16.75 per ounce.
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The most expensive beer listed is of an aged bottle of a beer that’s not very good. Here’s the beer’s quality rating at RateBeer.com.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/caulier-bon-secours-ambr
Rich people are ridiculous.
What begins as amusing soon becomes distressing for obvious reasons. There’s nothing wrong with valid luxury: Paying top dollar for top quality is best policy for food, clothes or automobiles is great policy, but spectacularly conspicuous and vacuous consumption is boorish and gauche at this level, even setting aside profoundly disturbing social considerations. Dope slaps all around.
I think your info on the Macadamia nut is outdated… Or else you just don’t know where to shop. I can buy a kilo of them at Trader Joe’s for about $5. My mother-in-law can buy a kilo at her local grocery store, in Malawi, for under $1.
So some little things, like Ritz-Carlton, not “Ritts-Karlton”, Wagyu, not “Vaghia” and such. It’s not too hard to find more expensive whisky or champagne, but if you limit it to current production you may be correct (though technically, the whisky you mention is a blend of older ones…)
Do you know why the Kopi Luwak coffee is so expensive? The coffee beans are collected from the excrement of civet cats that live in Sumatra. The partially digested beans are then processed and roasted.
Is it worth the money? I’ve personally never have had Kopi Luwak coffee, but reviews seem to suggest it’s good, but obviously overpriced.
your conversion for chinese money is off something terrible. 1 Yuan = about 1/7 of a dollar, not the other way around… seems like these aren’t really the most expensive foods.
I seem to recall that when you see a bunch of beans (the Kopi Luwak coffee) in a ’stick’ of poo (like in the case), it means that the cats were force fed the beans. Wikipedia has some more info (search Kopi Luwak coffee), but lacks a citation. Hooray for animal cruelty at the hands of the rich!
There should be far more Saffron in the world. It’s absolutely delicious and Crocuses are beautiful.
erm, tieguanyin is easily available, and cheap too. Under US$2 for a fresh pot, refillable.
The best Khaviar in the world is from Iran,Almas is Iranian word,i don’t know were you get the idea that this product is from Russia,it says Iranian on top of container too.
Saffran is from iran too it’ prnounce “za’feran” in Farsi.
Maxy,
you need to do a bit more research before writing things
“almas” is an Iranian word which means “Diamon”
You can even see on the caviar box it is saying “IRANIAN” and you mentioned Russian in your text!
Please correct your content
Why didn’t you mention that both Saffron and Caviar are Persian?
What are you racist or something?
FAIL
1) The main sources of caviar are from four species found in the Caspian Sea of IRAN.
2) The main producers of saffron also are Iran, India and recently Spain, but the most famous and highest quality saffron is from its origin in IRAN.
You’ve overlooked the Fleurburger (http://tinyurl.com/nl67w). It’s Kobe (Wagyu) beef, topped with foie gras, truffles, with a “secret sauce.”
Created by chef Hubert Keller, sold at his Burger Bar restaurant in Las Vegas … it’s a whopping $5,000 … but it comes with fries.
PASS
KHODAE KHOSHGELTARIN DOKHTAR HA RO DIDIN BAD KAFE TO TEHRAN RAH BERI BIBINI 90 % DOKHTARA TO KHIABOON SAD DAFE KHOSHGELTAR VA JAZAB TARN INTOR FEKR NIMIKONID ?
Wow, that’s an impressive shopping basket!
I like the sound of the drink with the diamond! You wouldn’t want to confuse it with ice though!
I really enjoyed reading your blog on the most expensive foods. Well done!
I think you forgot about wine, one of the most expensive drinks. If my sources are correct, the most expensive wine of the world was worth $190.000 in an auction, it was a Doble Mágnum de Vega Sicilia Unico de 1990.
Fantastic Story. You covered alot of the things I talk about in my podcast Universe of Luxury.
your pricing on that tea is way off. 1 dollar equals about 7 chinese yuan. a cup would only cost 2 dollars and a kilo would cost $242. it’s HARDLY the most expensive tea in the world. I’ve paid more for Jasmine.
correction: a cup would cost less than $2
Desalinated water, high in minerals, eh?
Twit.
yeah i cant belive any of this shit whoever buys any of it has lost their goddamn mind you hear that lost your goddamn mind this shit is so damn gay!!!!!!
but i would like to try diva voka give me some of that shit for FREE!!!!! you hear that FREE FREE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS SHIT IS TOOO EXPENSIVE
So, after the expensive foods, what kind of life do these rich and famous people have?
I enjoy reading about expensive food product and looking for it on internet by this way i discover one website of chocolate http://www.swisscocoagourmet.com their website is fabulous have a look it is worth it. Salut
Correct Ceci about COCOA GOURMET, This Swiss chocolate company is really the Must. In quality, service, and their wooden box are splendid. You even forget to say that when you order online their precious chocolate, they customize for each client the box. From the velvet color to the brass plate and even the wax seal. Well I must be honest with you, i have order last month one box of their 22 CARAT GOLD CHOCOLATES and one box of their SWEET DIAMONDS CHOCOLATES. The result…UNBELIEVABLE !
ye keya chuteya kaam hai k khane etne zeyada mehengeay hai kus k bachoo etne main to larke k mame aur kus ke kheer mel jay ge ganduwoo apna time zaya keya hai
Yo, that sandwich isn’t the most expensive sandwich in the world. That would be the McDonald out of England, which is stuffed with Wagyu beef from Japan, Black truffle mayonaise, english red plum tomatoes, foie grass on 24-hr fermented sourdough.
BTW, if I ever meet someone who spent over a million dollars for a bottle of diva vodka, I’d kidnap them and hold them for ransom.
visit: http://www.themostexpensivewineintheworld.com
여기서 찌질 대지 말고 밖에 나가서 노가다라도 뛰어라.. 1년 번돈으로 다 한끼 쳐 사먹으면 되겠구먼.. 하여간 한국인터넷 찌질이 들이나 미국 인터넷 찌질이들이나 넷상에서는 다 갑부고 전문가구먼…
hi there. im an author of a foodblog in manila philippines, this entry is PERFECT. if u dont mind, id like to make this as my basis for my next blog. but not to worry, ill cite ur site as my reference.
i would love to have any of this accept the Kopi Luwak i know how it is made and have absolutely no intentions in imbibing such a thing as well whom ever is writing this blog needs to learn better grammar
FUFUFUFU B******
oMmmmmMMGgggggggG…is that it?? You could try to buy in “Karinderya” $5000 per meal
Jake: i would love to have any of this accept the Kopi Luwak i know how it is made and have absolutely no intentions in imbibing such a thing as well whom ever is writing this blog needs to learn better grammar
Erm, I’m not sure someone who can’t capitalise, punctuate or spell properly ought to be criticising someone else’s grammar!! I think you mean ‘except’ not ‘accept’ and ‘no intention of imbibing’ not ‘no intentions in imbibing’, ‘I’ and the first letter of a sentence should always be a capital letter, and punctuation is essential to the meaning of a sentence, otherwise it is just a nonsensical babble of consciousness.
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying about people in glass houses…. In future, before before you go worrying about the tiny splinter in your neighbour’s eye, it might benefit you (not to mention them) to first remove the plank from your own.
how much does ases and spade cost
Why is it that a lot of this most expensive stuff is also stuff where if you REALLY look at it, no one would want to eat it? (let alone fork over all that cash!)
Truffles- fungus dug up by pigs? You’re going to eat an underground fungus that grew on a tree root. Why?
Fish Eggs- Saw a show on how they get caviar on Discovery. They pick up the fish and squeeze them till the eggs come out. Should see the fish’s expression!
Big Dead Bug- A lobster. Really, he crawls around, many legs, has a hard shell and big antenna. How is he not a bug?
Cat Poop Beans- Other commenters are correct on where the beans get their “Special Flavor”
Adding non-edible things seems like the ‘cop out’ way to go, anyone can land a diamond on whatever food and say it’s the most expensive. It’s not going to taste crazy different if someone’s let a rock onto it. Same for the golden sundae and jewel vodka. It’s not the food that’s so expensive, it’s the bonus!
The worthy things here are the spices, rare potatoes, unusual cow, and exotic chocolate and rare liquors, as they guarentee a taste experience but are difficult to obtain. They also sound edible when really looked into unlike some of the above…
Just translated your article into Persian and posted in on my blog, credits given to you. Keep up the good work!
Man i feel sorry for rich people they to lazy—> seartched that if u dont buy ur ingredients from the resturant it is about 1/2$ less if u make it also…. it might not taste good but at least ur giong to get better at it=D
mhmmmm fooood what is it tho?
what about the chinese ingredient ’swallows nest’ an edible birds nest going for up to $10 000 per kilo used in chinese cooking
Damn this shit!!! ur gonna die anyways…
i wanted to keep food production a life career.
Its a good job but its just a birds eye view.50 years old whiskies are available dont mentioned the wines dates etc
K what is up with you and dissing rich people? Im rich but usually just eat take out or i make my own food! I have had the sundae and the small version of the omelet they where delicious and im like most normal people except i love expensive cars for some reason im obsessed with cars so yea
Great list of expensive products. Sevruga caviar is also becoming more and more expensive with sturgeon fish slowly dying out
the fucking food is to expensive and our nana could do better with her eyes closed arshole
you know friends !! i have bought a lot of things listed here and my age is just 14.. my father bought me the coffee, wine, shampagne and everything.. these things are not too expensive just 100000 or less than that !! almost everone can buy them.. no wonder !!!
Lots of that stuff you wouldn’t even want to eat. Lobster and caviar pizza soaked in cognac? Lobster and caviar omlette? Yuck. Civit dung coffee? Gross. Would you put chicken, ham and quail eggs on a sandwich? Eddible gold leaf? That’s insanely stupid.
Most of these meals are just someone trying to combine the most expensive possible ingredients.
Saffron, excellent. Macadamia nuts, delicious (though not all that expensive). Truffles and kobi beef, I’ve never tried, but they’re recognised luxuries.
But thousands of dollars for a single dish, or drink? That’s increadibly wasteful. You’d have to be a major show-off, with no taste or discretion.
Caspian sea is SHARED by Iran and Azerbaijan (one of the former USSR republics). And best caviar comes from BOTH of these places, not just Iran.
I LOVE THESE TYPE OF FOOD AND DRINKS HAHAHAHAHA L.O.L
Luwak is only 3000 rupias per kilogram in Indonesia, that’s below 1$
Honestly, rich people are going to eat the worlds resources to extinction.
rich people piss me off they have too much money they dont know what to do with it. they need to learn to donate