The most expensive sandwich in the world is the Essen aka von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. Enticing you from 3 levels is chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails’ eggs and white truffles. And that ain’t no ordinary chicken. Poulet de Bresse is renowned as the ‘fourth gastronomic wonder of the world”. From the Brits across the pond.

Cost: About $200 dollars

via Wacky Archives.

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Preston’s at The Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale tops the list with a tequila libation containing Patron Grand Platinum, Grand Marnier 150 and fresh lime juice.

Cost: $65

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New York City’s Wall Street Burger Shoppe has the honor of selling the world’s most expensive hamburger. The Richard Nouveau burger is 10 ounces of Prime Kobe beef topped with 25 grams of black truffles, seared foie gras, aged Gruyere cheese and edible (yes, edible) gold flakes. The RN burger is topped with a homemade “golden truffle” mayonnaise that includes both gold flakes and black truffles. Hmm… do you get fries with that?

Cost: $175.00

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Brought to you by the Fortress Hotel in Sri Lanka, this pudding concoction is probably the world’s most expensive dessert. It’s called “The Fortress Stilt Fisherman”.

What’s in it?

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a champagne sabayon enlighten. The dessert is decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt. (a Sri Lankan motif)

….oh yeah, and a gemstone, an 80 carat aquamarine. (that’s gotta hurt going down)

Cost: about $14,500 . Apparently, one has been sold.

Sources: BBC News, Associated Press.

Update: The Fortress has been overcome by this most expensive dessert from Serendipity 3 in Manhattan, New York. It contains 28 rare cocoas and, get this, 23 carat edible gold dust, all served up in a gold goblet. Oh yeah, you get to keep the diamond encrusted 18 carat gold spoon.

Frrrozen Haute Chocolate

Price: $26,135 (and a Guinness World Book record certificate)

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Kopi Luwak or Civit Coffee is the rarest and most expensive coffee on earth but it’s made from dung.  That’s right.  An animal called a luwak (or civit) eats coffee beans which, when released, is gathered to create the legendary brew.

Adds new meaning to the phrase, “Wake up and smell the coffee”

Cost: about $700 a pound

Here’s what the critter looks like:

Source: ABC News.

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The honor of most expensive brewski supposedly goes to La Vieille Bon Secours. Available at the Bierdrome, London, exclusively (so they say). Hmm, drinking the most expensive beer would probably make your pee worth alot too.

Cost: $1,000 a bottle (must be a really big one) (or $75 a pint.)

This information has been published on one site. I question the $1,000 bottle cost, since that would have made news. And I could not find a link to Bierdrome in London. Beermania has a 2L bottle of this beer listed for 29 Euros or about $40.

Maybe they’re talking about a super magnum

Can anyone verify the bottle cost or Bierdrome’s existence?

So I give the award to Samuel Adams Utopia MMII. First brewed in 2001. It’s high alcohol content adds to the allure: 25% (that 50 proof!) for the 2005 batch.

Cost: $100 per 24 oz. copper bottle . You drink it warm.

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Life is too short to drink cheap wine– Anonymous

According to the BBC, Pernod Ricard will sell the world’s most expensive bubbly under the label Perrier-Jouet Belle Epoque. Cheers!

Cost: 1,000 euros (about $1,275 a bottle)

Wanna swig the cheap stuff? Try

$750 a bottle (1995)

$575 a bottle (1998)

$400 a bottle (1996)

$350 a bottle (1999)

$300 a bottle (1996)

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