VONCIGARS: Over-The-Top - Menu Items For Big Spenders !

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Over-The-Top - Menu Items For Big Spenders !

Most of the time we report to you about the best of the best regardless of what the charges for these things may be. Off course when things are very nice or extremely good, they naturally tend to cost more. But then there are the over-the-top menu items. We do not withhold them from you. Consider, the $1,000 breakfast frittata served by Norma’s, a breakfast joint at Le Parker Meridien in New York, or the $100 cheesesteak served at the Philadelphia steak house Barclay Prime. Harry’s Steak & Café, in New York tempts its guest with $14.50 Kobe beef hot dog. You can find some of the same over in England. Gordon Ramsay introduced a $185 white truffle pizza at his London restaurant Maze. Chef Spencer Burge added to the menu at Fence Gate Inn in Burnley, Lancashire, England, a $15,000 steak-and-mushroom pie served with a sauce made from 1982 Château Mouton-Rothschild. Norma’s $100 version of the frittata features an ounce of Kazakhstan sevruga caviar whilst the $1,000 version features several ounces of the same caviar. And then there is my Gourmet Brother Daniel Boulud. He offers you a $29 burger sandwich which showcases a patty stuffed with black truffles, foie gras, and beef short rib meat that has been marinated in red wine for 18 hours. His best seller is the Royale burger, which includes seven additional grams of sliced black truffles, which increase the price to as much as $70. The Super Royale, contains 15 grams of black truffles and costs as much as $120. Boulud’s burgers are served with French fries that arrive in a paper cone tucked in a silver cup. And despite Boulud’s protestations, the waitstaff will pair the Royale with a Coca-Cola if requested. Should you seek an appropriate nightcap after dining on a Royale, the lobby lounge of the Algonquin Hotel next door serves a $10,000 martini, which is poured into a glass that contains a diamond. Hey, just make you aware of the choices out there!

Barclay Prime
215.732.7560
www.starr-restaurant.com

DB Bistro Moderne
212.391.2400
www.danielnyc.com

Harry’s Steak & Café
212.785.9200
www.harrysnyc.com

Norma’s
212.708.7460
parkermeridien.com

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