New York's Best Restaurants for Luxury Food: $120- to $25,000-Food Items

Extravagant Dining in New York

If you dream of satisfying your taste buds with extravagant delectables, look no further. Rich and luxurious food items are available to satisfy the most discriminating taste of those for whom money is no object.

Start of your day of extravagant eating with a $1000 omelet from Norma's at Le Parker Meridien in New York City. This six-egg omelet is so expensive because
 it is filled with caviar and lobster.

If you want something lighter for breakfast, enjoy breakfast in New York City's Times Square at the Westin New York Hotel. A $1000 bagel is offered there topped with edible gold leaf, white truffle cream cheese, and Riesling jelly.

For lunch, take the limousine on over to New York City's Nino's Bellisima to indulge in some $1000 pizza. This pizza comes topped with seafood such as lobster, caviar, and salmon.

If pizza is not enough to satisfy your lunch-time appetite, add a quick dessert to your meal. Hop in the limousine again, and this time take it to Manhattan's Serendipity 3 to indulge in a $1000 ice-cream sundae for dessert. This concoction, appropriately named the Golden Opulence Sundae, is made up of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, edible gold leaf, truffles, and exotic candy.

December through March is truffle season, and the only time of year you can enjoy this scrumptious lunch choice of a DB Royale Double Truffle Burger. The burger is comprised of beef, truffles, braised short ribs, foie gras, and vegetables. It comes topped with horseradish, tomato, onions, lettuce, black truffles, and a tomato confit. This $120 gourmet junk food is accompanied with French fries, and is available in New York at the DB Bistro Moderne.

If you want to enjoy cocktail hour, you need only give 72 hours notice and pick a diamond to enjoy the Martini on the Rock at the Blue Bar in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. This $10,000 vodka martini cocktail comes complete with a diamond of your choice. The specific diamond will affect the price of the drink. In this example, a 1.5 carat diamond was used.

Related information
  • Some of the items include precious metals and gemstones.
  • Most of the foods and restaurants require advance notice and reservations
  • One day of luxury eating in New York could cost more than many people earn in an entire year.
 
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it is terrible how people toss money about like it is free some people have to work hard to earn there money and they can control themselfs with the money. why do people feel the need to through money down the drain on food i love bagels but not enogh to go and spend $1.000

Posted on 03/25/2008 at 4:03:16 AM

Great read, Daniella. Congratulations on being featured

Posted on 11/16/2007 at 9:11:00 PM

It takes a small mind and even smaller heart (combined with an undeserved big wallet) to waste money like this. As Beth said, it's all going down the toilet anyway. These folks have way more money than brains. Interesting article, Dani.

Posted on 11/16/2007 at 9:11:00 AM

Also, the article is not picking on New Yorkers. It is pointing out extravagant lifestyle indulgences which are available in New York. Can you blame New York establishments for providing what there is a market for? The biggest segment of the market for these items is comprised of the ultra rich (think foreign wealth) and celebrities.

Posted on 11/16/2007 at 8:11:00 AM

Please know that the title and the blurb on the feature section were NOT written by me. AC changed them after I submitted them.

Posted on 11/16/2007 at 8:11:00 AM

As a native New Yorker, I understand Jesse's point. But understand the phrase "only in New York" is not meant to be taken literally as ONLY in New York - you're a writer, Jesse, don't you realize this? However, people in New York spend crazily on everything. Whenever I go home to visit my mom I yell at her constantly for all of the wasteful and unnecessary things she consumes. Having moved away and changed, I think it was because of the constant stores always in my face that prompted the shopping. I miss some things, but overall saved a lot of money moving to PA!

Posted on 11/16/2007 at 8:11:00 AM

It's disgusting the way some people throw money around.

Posted on 11/15/2007 at 8:11:00 PM

lol @ Beth's comment. hehe :p

Posted on 11/15/2007 at 8:11:00 PM

bad reporting. get "out of your limo" and get real. only in NY is such a pretentious thing to say; travel anywhere else in the world, Beverly Hills, Stamford, Long Island, Miami, Georgetown, NEWARK! and you'll find far more wasteful spending and people running around flushing their money away. it's going on EVERYWHERE! anyone with any sense should take offense.

Posted on 11/15/2007 at 5:11:00 PM

Yikes! I think I'll stick with my own bagels LOL

Posted on 11/15/2007 at 4:11:00 PM

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