These are the most expensive restaurants in the world
Because those euros won’t come with you when you die, sings Kraantje Pappie. So: raise your credit card limit and go out to eat at the most expensive restaurants in the world – if you dare.
Pop a fruit pill
This isn’t a restaurant, it’s a concept, they say on the website of Sublimotion, the restaurant at the Hard Rock Hotel in Ibiza. The world’s most expensive concept, that is: 1,500 euros. Per person. And three hours later, you’re back outside. What do you experience? Moving images are projected onto the table to match the dishes by renowned chef Paco Roncero (two Michelin stars). Eyewitnesses talk about 17 courses, edible menus, bites floating to the table attached to balloons, fruit pills and, of course, caviar, oysters and champagne – while wearing a virtual reality headset.
Ice cream for the little one? Cha-ching
Top-quality bluefin tuna tartare, cut into perfect cubes, with ossetra caviar. As a starter. That says it all: sushi restaurant Masa in New York, with chef Masayoshi Takayama, is the height of decadence. Scoop of ice cream: 45 dollars. Maki sushi: 240 dollars. Grilled shrimp: 60 dollars. The true snob turns up their pampered little nose at it, because the culinary elite of The Big Apple has decided that Masa is overpriced and overrated, but the place is packed every night and the average guest cheerfully shells out 1,500 dollars for dinner for two.
Three metres underwater
The most beautiful restaurant in the world, according to The New York Daily News, is Ithaa in the Maldives. It looks like a thatched hut above the sea, but then you walk down the stairs to where a table is set inside a glass tunnel. Above, to the left, to the right: everywhere, the dazzling blue sea with glistening fish, and on your plate lobster carpaccio, agnolotti and something complicated with truffle and mascarpone. Three metres below the water’s surface, you can have lunch or dinner with up to 13 friends for a casual 400 dollars per person.
Family restaurant
Do you like Japanese food? Then come along to Kunio Tokuoka’s family restaurant. There are few surprises on the menu at his restaurant Kyoto Kitcho Arashiyama in Kyoto: a starter, soup, sashimi, something from the grill, something braised, followed by rice and pickled vegetables. The bill is probably the real surprise: nearly 80,000 yen per person, which is about 650 euros. Including green tea, at least.
Cash from the vegetable garden
According to Anthony Bourdain, ‘the best restaurant in the world, period.’ The French Laundry in Napa Valley is a household name. Classic French food is on the menu, so frogs’ legs, mandarin suprême and poularde with sauce bordelaise. That is, if they are currently growing in the vegetable garden, because French Laundry cooks with the seasons. The menu also features a chic mac & cheese, with Périgord truffle, for an extra 125 dollars. Check, please! That brings it to 325 dollars, excluding tip.
Photo: Ithaa restaurant
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