Still,
that's no excuse to be caught with your metaphorical peasant pants around your
ankles. In order to keep you up to date with the affairs of the affluent, I've
composed a list of the most expensive foods Dubai has to offer.
Instead
of finding the five most overall expensive dishes, and with the help of the
minds over at The Richest, I decided to focus on specific categories (most
expensive pizza, sandwich, etc), since most of them are recognizable worldwide
and aren't region-specific.
Without
further ado, here are Dubai's Most Expensive items:
1. Sandwich - $84
Surprisingly,
the most expensive sandwich in Dubai has very few ingredients in it. It's the
quality of the ingredients themselves that make it insanely expensive. The
sandwich's insides consist of a little bit of salt, some butter, some thinly
sliced black Perigord truffles and two slices of bread. That's it.
A
minimum wage employee in California would have to work about nine hours to
afford this sandwich. Let that settle in your mind for a second.
2. Pizza - $204,200
Before
this pizza was made, the previous defending world champion for most expensive
pizza was a creation by Gordon Ramsey that he served in his restaurant, The
Maze. His pizza sold for a little over $2,000, making it cost less than 1% of
the current titleholder.
"Royal
Pizza," the name of the pizza created in the uber-elegant Dubai restaurant
Pierchic, was originally intended as a one time pizza for, you guessed it,
Dubai's royal family. The ingredients include: white Italian truffles, black
Perigord truffles, French foie gras, Mongra saffron from Kashmir, Beluga caviar
soaked in Dom Perignon, Japanese matsutake mushrooms and two full ounces of
gold leaves.
3. Cupcake - $1,007
Bloomsbury,
a small boutique cafe in the Dubai Mall, celebrated it's one year anniversary
in 2012 by creating this Herculean cupcake. The gold-adorned cupcake, aptly
named the "Golden Phoenix," is made using 23-carat gold sheets,
Ugandan vanilla beans, Italian chocolate, and gold-dipped strawberries.
Considering
how demanding it is to make and the quality of the ingredients, it comes as no
surprise that the noble bakery requires a 48-hour notice in order to build this
cupcake of the Gods.
4. Ice Cream - $817
This
ice cream sundae, called The Black Diamond, is just another opulent win on
Dubai's scoreboard. For $817, you get one scoop of Madagascan vanilla ice cream
infused with a rare and expensive Iranian saffron and black Italian truffle.
Of
course, this IS Dubai we're talking about, so naturally the scoop comes with
23-carat gold sheet flakes sprouting from every which way in the scoop. On top
of that, an ice cream scoop so decadent and gaudy could only be served in an
equally fancy bowl, which is why the Black Diamond Sundae is served in a
Versace bowl and spoon, both of which the customer is allowed to keep.
5. Cocktail - $7,438
At
this point you must be thinking, "Yeah, yeah, just tell us how much edible
gold is in this thing and move on." Surprisingly, there's none. Well, none
inside the drink. The cocktail is made with Macallan 55 year old single malt,
self-prepared bitters, homemade passion fruit sugar, then topped off with ice
cubes made of water from the Macallan distillery in Scotland. The drink even
comes with a stirrer made from one of the oak casks.
Served
at the Skyview Bar of the Burj Al Arab hotel, the cocktail known as the
"27.321" (due to the drink being served on the 27th floor and the
building itself being 321 meters tall) comes served in an 18-carat gold glass
that officially belongs to the customer once purchased.
By Foodbeast