While some of us are quite happy with inexpensive pizza or hotdog, others admit that they are squandering money on a nice restaurant for a special occasion, yet discerning gourmets prefer to enjoy an expensive haute cuisine on a regular basis. There are in the world and these people who frequent the most luxurious expensive places, forcing relatively regular restaurants or restaurants in the gardens look like Fast Food. These restaurants are expensive, but given their prestigious location, impressive dishes, as well as celebrity chefs, those who are willing to throw money away in these places tend to argue that they have spent their money is not wasted.
Many of the restaurants, which we describe below, are renowned for their exclusivity, an exotic location, rare dishes and unique atmosphere. These places offer more than food: they offer a unique "experience" restaurant visits. Many of these restaurants get most of their prestige from the fact that they have been awarded Michelin stars. Michelin Guide (Michelin Guide) is a series of directories, which are published by the French company «Michelin» for over a hundred years and Michelin Guide, the oldest and most famous directory star awards for excellence very select number of restaurants and bars. Acquisition or loss of a star can have a huge impact on the success of the restaurant and the prices.
In fact, the fact that the most elaborate and expensive restaurants in the world are becoming more and more expensive pompous suggests that the culture of gourmet indulgence honors their whims and encourages exclusivity and prestige. While some argue that these features are the best part of any meal, perhaps, the fact that high caliber of international cuisine is practically inaccessible to those with a more modest budget, disappoint these people.
However, the most expensive restaurants in the world continues to become less and less accessible, as chefs and restaurateurs are constantly improving their vision, and more and more restaurants are beginning to offer costly specialized culinary specialties, continuing to make waves in the world. Some say that good food is priceless, but these luxury establishments suggest that the preparation of food, can certainly be good to profit. For those who can only dream about dinner at one of these institutions, or for those looking for an additional recommendation meta where reserve a special dinner, we tell you about the ten most expensive restaurants in the world.
10. Mass
Masa Restaurant, located in New York's complex Time Warner Center, invites you to enjoy equally the food and atmosphere. Chef Masa Takayama advises customers to dress comfortably to comfortably spend three hours (!) For a culinary event with a variety of dishes. The restaurant is no set menu, customers sit down and bring them to a range of fresh food straight from the kitchen. The restaurant atmosphere is very soothing, probably to suppress the shock that you can test to see invoice for $ 350 per person - not including tax or gratuity. And if we talk about the drinks, there really can be ruined as a carafe of sake "Kikuhime" will cost you $ 400, well, a bottle of Chateau Margaux Bordeaux 1995 pull on $ 1,500.
9 "Misogigava" (Osaka, Kobe) and Kyoto)
This restaurant serves French food with a Japanese slant, as the site explains, kitchen "seeking harmony of the French spirit and Japanese culture." The restaurant is located in a former tea in downtown Las Vegas and offers French cuisine in the style kaiseki since 1981. The seasonal menu at eight dishes will cost you at least about 162 dollars. More bombastic version of the multi-course dinner costs $ 270 with tax, and must be booked at least five days before you come! Among the delicious and expensive meals are: beef fillet with potato souffle, green beans with butter and roast pumpkin. For dessert, the establishment offers a variety of delicious choices, including chocolate marquis with berries in a creamy pistachio sauce. In the institution also has a number of private rooms for events or simply a specialized lunch.
8. Le Pre Catelan (Paris)
This trendy restaurant is located in the center of the park Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France. Prices for meals start at around $ 85, and desserts $ 43, but customers will be difficult to find a special dish to order for less than 130 dollars. For $ 255 including taxes and service, you can enjoy a family meal. As summer promotion, the restaurant offers a five-course dinner (only!) $ 199 per person. Among these are expensive dishes with shrimp ravioli in broth with olive oil, and veal with mashed potatoes with the smell of cinnamon. Visitors also talked about the excellent bread and wine, which are important elements of any French restaurant.
7. "Beige" (Tokyo)
Restaurant "Beige" is at the top of the building Chanel in the Ginza district of Tokyo. This restaurant is another institution renowned chef Alain Ducasse, which in 2013 received a lifetime achievement award from the Web site ranks the World's 50 Best Restaurants. Restaurants, culinary schools, cookbooks and consulting activities Ducasse brought him about $ 15 million in 2002, and its revenues certainly increased over the years to come! The restaurant "Beige" offers French cuisine with seasonal Japanese ingredients. Special menus include mushroom menu with porcini and matsutake for 259 dollars, or lunch of three or four courses for 147 or 190 dollars respectively. When you straightened with dinner, you get chocolate in the form of Chanel buttons. Of course, for about $ 25.
6. "Gordon Ramsay" (London)
Gordon Ramsay is a well known chef, restaurateur and television personality. You can learn Scottish chef of the popular show "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" or "Hell's Kitchen". Ramzi extremely prestigious restaurants. Moreover, his signature restaurant "Gordon Ramsay", located in the Chelsea neighborhood in London since 2001 holds 3 ex-Michelin stars (it is a great honor in the restaurant business). Their seasonal menu of specialties includes a number of courses for 185 pounds, which is about 320 dollars. Besides these, of course, will need to pay an extra 12.5 percent tip that rounds the score to 355 dollars! The restaurant also serves a bottle of red wine over 11,000 pounds, well, over 18 850 in case you are interested, you bring a bottle of 1900 Chateau Margaux 1er cru classé. The food in the restaurant supposedly tasty, but you may have to eat noodles for the rest of the month.
5. "Restaurant Crissier" (Switzerland)
This restaurant has recently received three Michelin stars, and is part of the nearly 40-year-old Zacharias legendary chefs. The restaurant offers a full "sensory experience" and received tremendous praise as a professional ratings, and, in the opinion of customers. In 2013, Chef Benoit Violier was recognized as a chef in Switzerland, earning him 19/20 points in the prestigious French restaurant guide Gault Millau. Among the dishes served in the restaurant are white catfish Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, cooked with tsimbopogonom, summer grilled mushrooms and red fruit souffle. In a set menu includes a few dishes, but worth it $ 415.
4. "Aragava" (Tokyo)
Magazine «Forbes» awarded restaurant "Aragava", the title of the most expensive restaurants in the world in 2006, and while he was incorrect, this is not, he is still in the top five most expensive restaurants in the world. This restaurant is located at the end of a long hall in the basement of an office building in the business district of Tokyo called Shinbasi can accommodate only 22 people. Very good location of the restaurant and a limited number of places are part of its exclusivity. The restaurant is also known for the fact that it is here that serves the best Kobe beef in the world. Among other delicacies can be enjoyed here steak grilled over coals of Kobe beef or a whole smoked salmon, which is smoked in the restaurant every week. Kobe beef steak dish is unique as the animal must meet very specific criteria, these steaks are only "selective cattle." Toasting process includes ten separate stages! Not including beverages, the prix fixe menu will cost you about $ 341 per person, but this particular lunch is worth it if you can find that kind of money.
3. Restaurant Le Meurice (Paris)
Given that it is the property of the award-winning chef and restaurateur Alain Ducasse, it is not surprising that this chic restaurant, decorated in the style of Versailles, made the list. The room is decorated with crystal chandeliers, bronze and marble, and overlooks the "Jardin des Tuileries". For a considerable amount of 524 dollars, you can try three dishes plus cheeses and desserts. Price, of course, does not include drinks, which can add to your score a couple of hundred dollars. Among the special dishes are pie guinea fowl (only for about $ 156), lobster with potatoes, calf sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas), and a decadent selection of fruit and chocolate.
2. "Ithaa Undersea Restaurant" (Maldives)
This exotic restaurant was rated as "the most beautiful restaurant in the world" newspaper "New York Daily News" 2014. Itaa located five meters below the surface of the Indian Ocean, and offers a panoramic view of 180 degrees on the coral gardens that surrounded it. ("Ithaa" means "pearl" in the Maldivian language dihevi). The restaurant serves European dishes in the set menu of six dishes, the price of which does not start with less than $ 320 per person without drinks or tip. The menu includes such delicacies as caviar reef fish and fillet of beef from cows breed Aberdeen Angus. Children permitted for lunch but not for dinner, the restaurant, of course, requires a formal dress code. This exotic restaurant is another institution that is able to provide a truly unique experience - but it will cost you quite fun is not cheap, because even the most modest menu, you have to shell out $ 500 per person.
1. Restaurant "Sublimotion" (Ibiza)
The most expensive restaurant in the world called "Sublimoushn" describes chef Paco Ransero as "radically different." The restaurant is located on the island, which is usually known for partying more than chefs, Michelin-star culinary experience and experts. Nevertheless, this restaurant adds a touch of island partying unquestionable class.
«Sublimoushn" is at the Hard Rock Hotel in Playa de Bossa, and can simultaneously accommodate only 12 visitors (which makes it truly unique.) "Gastro-touch" lunch on 20 dishes should "cause emotional distress." These experiences may also include tears after receiving a check for $ 2,000. However, this is truly a unique dining experience: technology, psychology, design and, of course, world class food - all come together to make this a unique dining adventure (with a price that you can ensure a good rest over the weekend full of adventure ). All the way down to a moisture content "micro" changes, while you eat and enjoy lunch.