Saturday, 11 August 2012
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Can You Afford this Pizza?
Pizza is undoubtedly one of the most popular foods in the country. Americans eat pizza for dinner, breakfast and even dessert. While it’s not unusual to spend $20 or more on the perfect pie, would you spend a month’s salary for the privilege of one of the best pizzas in the world? It can be hard to stomach paying thousands of dollars for a dinner that you can get on almost any corner for a ten spot, but hundred, even thousand, dollar pizzas are becoming staples at some of the hottest restaurants on the globe. Here are five of the most expensive pizzas that you will find:
1.London
You know Gordon Ramsay from his popular cookbooks and myriad of television shows, but have you ever had the chance to eat in one of his restaurants? If you make it to London, be sure to stop by Maze for a pizza that will put all others to shame. Though the pie will set you back $250, it’s actually the least expensive entry on this list. Topped with white truffle pasta, fontina cheese, buffalo mozzarella, cep mushrooms, pancetta and white truffle shavings, the pizza virtually explodes with flavor from the very first bite.
2.New York City
If you’ve got $1,000 to spare, stop by Nino Bellisima and drop it on this fantastic pizza. The pizza is a foot across and topped with two lobster tails and six kinds of caviar. If you’ve never tried caviar, this is definitely the way to do it. If you have tried caviar, and aren’t a fan, you may want to save your cash and head over to the local pizzeria instead.
3.Glasgow
It may cost you a year’s worth of car payments, but the Pizza Royale 007 may be the best pie that your tongue has ever had the pleasure of tasting. For the high cost of $4,200, you and your party can enjoy a pizza topped with 24-carat gold dust, cognac-marinated lobster and caviar soaked in champagne. The colorful pizza is truly a work of art and absolute heaven to the palate.
4.Henrietta, New York
Did you ever think that you would spend $8,200 on a pizza? If you want to propose to your fiance in a unique way, you better consider spending the money. While the pizza looks like your typical pepperoni pie, your fiance will know something is up when she sees its romantic heart shape. The ingredients aren’t what make this pizza worth the money, but it’s the diamond ring and bottle of champagne that comes along side it that will knock her socks off.
5.Salerno
As if traveling to Italy wasn’t expensive enough, now you’ve got to make sure you have $12,000 for dinner. The dough for this pizza takes 72 hours to rest, is topped with caviar, Norwegian lobster and bufala mozzarella cheese. The pie is then dusted ever-so-lightly with pink Australian sea-salt and served to you straight from the oven. The price tag not only includes the amazing ingredients, but three Italian chefs who will cook the pizza and serve it to you in the comfort of your own villa.
While you may gawk at spending more than $20 for your favorite dish, it’s fun to know that there are some truly wild pizzas out in the world. While we’re dying to try Gordon Ramsay’s offering, we think that we’ll wait until we win the lottery to try the others.
Evie Lancaster writes for pizzadelivery.org, a site she loves to recommend for finding the best pizza delivery options in Dallas.
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Comments (18)
If I ever find myself lusting for a food that expensive, then I think it's high time I learn to make it at home! Damn!
my dad likes to do stupid things like that. It's part of his stupidity and mania problem. I guess he's really motivated to do the stupid job, which is hire and fire people. I pay for that too, just like I paid when he cheated the people downstairs out of a month of rent. I also pay because he's up there income-wise. Obama picked people that were starving, yet eat salad, to do this. I would make him pay me, and i would start networking pretty fast because the likelihood of getting slaughtered doing that job is pretty high.
My dad isn't rich, but he's just enough to screw me over. I think he makes like 100,000+ or something with bonuses, and he is still struggling because of his ludicrous lifestyle.
I like street corner food, vendors. I had to look the definition of that up, for "all that you ever learned, try to forget." I'll still explain in a messed up kind of way and unless they give me full on dementia then I will reconnect some stuff. Now that my brain is destroyed, I'll never get to go again. I like those little places that pop up in foreign countries. Sometimes, they call me fat and won't sell me food. I think that's stupid of them.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Everything.
Wasn't it Marie Antoinette who once quipped, "Let them eat pizza?"
I would never spend that kind of money on a pizza o.O I dont even try to spend over $20 when I order (which isn't very often, since my boyfriend doesn't like the pizza places here). I prefer making my own pizza and putting whatever I want on it :D I am also very picky... lol.
You'll never find me enjoying a pizza with such luxurious toppings. I like mine with common toppings such as sausage, veggies and cheese. As much as I enjoy a tasty meal, you can find a very tasty meal at every price point. I find it a bit too extravagant to spend that kind of money one one meal.
Looks like a green pea pizza.
Okay, these pizzas are God's way of telling you that you have far too much money, and far too little common sense.
@dw817@xanga - And not even a yummy looking pea pizza.
Technically, yes, I have more than $250 in my savings account, but there is no way I would spend even that much on a pizza, especially one that doesn't even sound good.
Who in their right mind would pay that much for pizza??! I can just go to the local Papa John's and get a slice for $1, thank you very much.
*sigh* The fact that some people can spend thousands on pizza and I can hardly afford my groceries is really depressing.
You can eat gold dust? It's edible? O.o that's news to me...
I like my pizza regular, and I like it from a place called Velo Misto if possible.
That's not pizza.
*picks up pizza, eats a slice for breakfast* The only one that sounded reasonable was the one with the diamond in it- depending on the ring's worth.
I've had $200 pizza out here in LA... but I didn't pay for it. ;D
Not to go all serious, but having traveled in countries where people are literally starving to death, I could never pay this much for one meal. It grieves me that there are people who buy this. I just hope they also do their fair share of charitable giving.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Hands down. I mean, here I thought eating fish eggs aka caviar which sends you back up to a grand or more was down right stupid. Looks like this blog about pizza took the cake! [Or should I say pie?] I don't even think it's cool or fun to read about something this outrageously expensive! It just makes me really sad that people have enough money to spend on a measly pizza for two when I [like another comment said] can barely afford to get groceries! Or the fact that people are starving all over the world & people who have enough money to buy a pizza like those, drop it on that instead of a charity!
Disgusting IMO.
That New York pizza was featured on Pizza Paradise.