Shine OnLondon restaurant creates the $2,100 'Glamburger,' world's most expensive burger
At Honky Tonk, an American diner-style restaurant in London, England, patrons can order a burger like nothing they’ve ever seen — or paid for — before: the £1,100 ($1,980 CAD) Glamburger.
The Glamburger’s patty is made with Kobe Wagyu beef and New Zealand venison, stuffed with black truffle brie, and seasoned with smoked Himalayan salt.
The burger is topped with Iranian-saffron-poached Canadian lobster, maple syrup-coated streaky bacon, Beluga caviar and hickory smoked duck egg covered in edible gold leaf.
And because you can never have too much gold leaf on your burger, the bun is also coated in gold leaf — and seasoned with Japanese matcha and cream mayonnaise.
Chef Chris Large tops off his culinary creation, which took three weeks to develop, with a mango and champagne jus and grated white truffle.
"After sourcing the best possible ingredients to create this masterpiece, the winner will certainly have a dinner to remember," Large says in a press release.
Not only will it empty your wallet, the Glamburger will expand your waistline. The decadent dinner will set you back an impressive 2,618 calories.
The Glamburger was created in collaboration with Groupon to celebrate the sale of the coupon site’s 5 millionth voucher in the U.K. One Groupon user will win the opportunity to travel to Honky Tonk and try the Glamburger for free.
Record Setter verified the Glamburger as the world’s most expensive burger — although Guinness World Records begs to differ. Oregon-based Juicys Foods created a monstrous 352.44-kilogram burger that costs $5,000. (Yes, it’s available commercially.)
But the Glamburger is definitely the most expensive burger that fits on a single dinner plate.
The most expensive commercially available pizza is found at Gordon Ramsey’s Maze restaurant, also in London. It’s a thin-crust, wood fire-baked pizza topped with onion puree, white truffle paste, fontina cheese, baby mozzarella, pancetta, cep mushrooms, freshly picked wild mizuna lettuce and garnished with fresh shavings of a rare Italian white truffle.”
When it debuted, the pizza sold for a considerably more affordable £100 ($180 CAD) each.
The Essen Platinum Club Sandwich broke records in March 2007 with its £100 ($180 CAD) price tag. Available on the menu of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, U.K., the sandwich included three slices of fermented sourdough bread, Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, white truffles, quail eggs and semi-dried Italian tomatoes.
Moral of the story: If you want to create an expensive meal, add truffles.
Here’s some other super-expensive food we can’t afford.
What’s the biggest food splurge you’ve ever justified?
