Although American economy has started treading on the road to recovery, its impact is still felt by many who have not yet given up the habit of spending cautiously. On the contrary there are people who have truckloads of cash to spend on the most expensive restaurant meals in the world. And there are many restaurants happy to tap this bunch of customer and make profit rather than attracting penny pinching customers.

So, if you thought a 48 USD filet mignon from a local restaurant is an expensive restaurant meal, this is even less than dirt cheap when you compare it with the 5000 USD burger from Hubert Keller. Hold your breath because there are many more expensive restaurant meals, just enough to rob your savings or at least your sleep tonight.

Arnaud’s strawberry dessert, ice- cream in red wine is the most expensive restaurant meals in the world, priced at 1.4 million USD. Well, you get a ring with 5-carat pink  diamond along with Arnaud’s exclusive dessert.

The second in line is Fleur, the restaurant owned by a top chef who has devised a special burger called FleurBurger priced at 5000 USD. Well, it has got that sumptuous Kobe beef, expensive black truffles and the controversial foie gras accompanied with a rarely available wine, Petrus.

Norma is yet another New York based restaurant to offer the world’s most expensive restaurant meal. It has a Frittata dish made from 6 eggs served along with whole lobster plus a lustrous caviar weighing 10 ounce and all this for just 1000 USD.

Masa Takayama is a well respected sushi chef. In his restaurant, Shaboo the most expensive restaurant meal is Omakase. At 500 USD, this dish seems to justify its price with finest quality imported beef and seafood that are cut immaculately and served with a divine broth.

A platter full of treasured seafood in the form of curry is yet another on the list of most expensive restaurant meal. In particular, this dish is called Samundari Khazana is probably the costliest curry in the world containing expensive seafoods like caviar, abalone, lobster and crab. The lobster shell is laden with edible gold. Morel mushrooms, white truffle are other ingredients of this 3000 USD curry and id served with saffron rice.

The most expensive restaurant meal in the world also includes a 1000 USD Golden cake from Sultan. This golden cake is prepared on order and is a sumptuous treat, made of black truffles, pears, quinces, apricots, French Polynesian vanilla beans and Jamaican rum marinated fig, which is marinated for many years. The cake is coated with 24-carat gold and delivered in handmade silver box. How’s that?

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