In our list of 15 best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world you are going to find dishes so mouth-watering you’d better grab a bite before you continue reading!
As you have already noticed, people have made an art out of wine and dine ritual. It is in human nature to constantly try to invent new sources of pleasure (in this case, gastronomic pleasures) and we have certainly crossed many borders in that attempt. While discussing the most expensive food dishes, most websites offering them focus on those that are covered in gold flakes (like one of the most expensive food in India, a Gold Plated Dosa), or even have diamonds on offer. However, our title clearly says “most delicious”, and since diamonds and gold cannot be vouched for to have any taste, or at least any that is appealing to the palate of an ordinary person, we have immediately crossed them out of our research. To summarize, when it comes to the most expensive food ingredients, we only included those that actually have some nutritional value. No gold, no gemstones, no diamonds, period. All the ingredients from our list are perfectly edible. Hence our choices fully deserve the praise from our title: the best!
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The “no gold policy” about the most expensive food in the world definitely made our search more durable and valuable at the same time. In order to provide you with the most delicious food we visited the websites of Cooking Channel TV, The Independent, Book a Table, CNTraveler, Luxe Adventure Traveler, to name a few, and picked 15 foods from different categories. Now would also be a good time to define what we mean by “food”. We definitely included cocktails in this category, but we strayed away from most expensive food in the world by weight. It seemed a bit unfair to include pounds or kilos into our list, so the prices given are prices of an individual serving or an item. In addition, all the tasty bits we named is something you can eat right away. This means that we didn’t enlist, for instance, world’s most expensive fish (which is by the way blue fin tuna, costing from $1,300 to over $670,000 per piece, as told by The Guardian). Even though you can eat it raw (and it is actually highly recommendable), you would hardly eat raw the whole fish and call it a delicious meal. If your mouth waters by the very mention of seafood, take a look at our article on the Most Expensive Seafood in the World. The final criterion for our top picks was the price, so the food is listed according to its prices, from the lowest to the highest. Occasionally, when the prices coincided, the food which was more complex to prepare, or could reach a higher amount per serving, came higher on the list. X-rates calculator was used if the prices were provided in pounds to convert them to US dollars.
Now sit back, relax, take a bite and check out our list of 15 best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world.
15. Black Ivory Coffee
Price: $50
For those of you who have already heard of coffee beans being digested by animals and then used for brewing, take a guess which animal we are talking about here? Yep, it’s an elephant. Thai elephants are fed the finest Thai Arabica beans and…well, you know the rest. The most expensive cup of coffee will cost you exactly 50 bucks.
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14. Yubari King Melon
Price: $50-100
The price shown is the least you can pay for this specific melon type. Yubari King melons are a rare cantaloupe type grown only in Yubari, Japan. At a grocery shop, one can cost you up to $100. One pair was once auctioned in Japan for $26,000, and recently another pair beat the record with $28,000. Those who have tasted them claim they have the perfect ratio of sweetness and juiciness.
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13. Coffin Bay King Oysters
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12. Philly Cheesesteak
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11. The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Soup
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10. Tokyo Hot Dog
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9. Albarragena Jamon Iberico De Bellota Ham
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8. Masa Sushi
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7. Moose Milk Cheese
Price: $500
A couple of firms in Sweden are producers of this dairy delicacy. If you enjoy cheese and are always looking for new tastes, this is the one for you.
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6. Norma’s Frittata
Price: $1,000
What is frittata anyway? Is it really one of the best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world? Well, it’s an Italian omelet, similar to the Spanish one. OK, an omelet. This one you can eat in New York and it has lobster and 10 ounces of caviar in it. Also, it holds the Guinness record for the most expensive omelet in the world.
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5. Kobe Chateaubriand
Price: $2,500
For $2,500 you will get about 340 grams of Kobe steak prepared in a special way. There is a whole philosophy about why the meat is so tasty, and how it tastes like butter, etc. The most expensive Kobe cow was sold for astounding $50,000. If you want to check for yourself, go to Wagymafia restaurant in Tokyo.
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4. Hubert Keller’s FleurBurger 5000
Price: $5,000
If you have been fed up with these complex dishes on our list of best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world, here is a good old burger. Everyone knows what a good burger tastes like and has their favorite burger joint. At Hubert Keller’s they have several reasons why they are the best – the burger is made of Wagyu beef, foie gras, shaved black truffles and truffle sauce, all beautifully served on a brioche truffle bun. Yum!
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3. Salvatore’s Legacy Cocktail
Price: $7,200
Talking about best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world and most expensive food ingredients, and what is your opinion on ingredients that are over 200 years old? That is what it takes to make a cocktail at Salvatore Club at Playboy, London. Salvatore Calabrese uses 1788 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac, 1770 Kummel Liqueur, 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao and early 20th century Angostura Bitters for this rare drink. To make it even more desirable, he has to approve each and every order, or you won’t be able to quench your thirst.
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2. Louis XIII Pizza
Price: $12,000
$12,000 for a pizza? Outrageous! You might exclaim this, but wait a minute. This dough takes 72 hours to rise, and there are three chefs arriving at your place to prepare it for you. The topping is made with the very best buffalo mozzarella, three types of caviar, and there is even lobster brought in from Norway and Cilento. Salt” Pink Australian sea salt. Hand-selected. Ah, pure poetry. You can read/eat this poetry at Agropoli in Salerno, Italy. Just ask for chef Renato Viola.
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1. Almas Caviar
Price: $25,000
Caviar has been a part of many dishes in our list of 15 best, most delicious and expensive foods in the world, and here it has the first place all to itself. This specific type is produced by an albino (!) sturgeon which is between 60 and 100 years old. A single gold tin will cost you $25,000, and the fish eggs are appropriately of a golden color, too. However, this is not a Russian product, but an Iranian. It also holds the Guinness record for the most expensive caviar in the world. Seriously, after all these recommendations, how can you resist and not take a bite?
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