The most expensive restaurants around the world
From Scattidigusto, a preview, images and descriptions of the dearest restaurant ever, which is about to open in Ibiza: Sublimotion
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Read for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini
It will be inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Playa d’en Bossa in Ibiza and it resembles a tropical aquarium where the table and walls change colour becoming, sky, grass, a royal hall…. All for 1.600€ per person. The experience proposed by the chef Paco Roncero, is multi-sensorial with images, aromas, music which changes with every course immerging the diners in a virtual reality only for millionaires. A similar proposal, even though more expensive, from Ultraviolet in Shanghai, based on the same concept of being immerged
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totally in sensations set off by food.
It is surprising how the pleasure of food is developed as something to be enjoyed alone and with an absolute concentration on ones own senses. In other words exactly the opposite to what we have always thought, and that food was an experience to be shared, for socializing something to be experienced, enjoyed and commented with others as if it were something adhesive among people. Another thought regards the price which seems to be created to generate exclusivity, because << Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing >> said Oscar Wilde.
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This subject brings us to another. Which are the most expensive restaurants in the world? And still, do they all follow the same logics in ostentation of richness? No, but nearly, because not always does expertise at the hob coincide with luxury and extortionate prices. There are many lists; here you find the 10 “tables for millionaires” listed by “USA Today” in 2013.
1. Kitcho Kyoto 600 $ per person
2. Restaurant Le Maurice Paris 509 $
3. Masa New York 450$ sushi temple
4. Maison Pic Valence (Fr) 445$
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5. Aragawa Tokyo 370$ with steaks for 400$
6. Ithaa Atollo Maldive 320$ under water tunnel
7. Hotel de Ville Crissier (Ch) 318$
8. Alain Ducasse London 289$
9. Michel Bras Toya Toya (Japan) 287$
10. Schloss Schauenstein Furstenau (CH) 269$
This one comes from the largest online daily newspaper Huffington Post
N° 1 Ithaa, Atollo Maldive, five metres under water with a unique experience of the Ocean, with a special menu at 320 $ does not include beverages but does include local specialities. Only for 10 people.
N°4 Masa, New York, sushi temple. The chef Masayoshi Takayama proposes a menu at 450 $ with classical Japanese dishes and some of his creations such as the red tuna tartare with Osetra caviar. Other than a fixed menu it is possible to order à la carte and so the price can go up with no difficulty as far as 1.500$.
N° 3 Solo per Due, Vacone, in Umbria, is the smallest restaurant in the world and can be found in a splendid old villa. The menu is decided by the diners who call the waiter with a silver bell. Price 500 Euro per couple.
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N°4 The French Laundry in Napa Valley the menu is proposed by the chef Thomas Keller costs 753 Euro per couple, but à la carte the price goes up.
N° 5 Sukiyabashi Jiro, in Tokyo where the sushi is perfect and created by the great Japanese cuisine Jiro Ono, 87 years of age. The special menu costs 460 Euro per couple.
Those who think that here they will find the best
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cuisine, are wrong, here one pays for the exclusivity and the service maybe more than for the expertise in
the kitchen. So the gourmand luxury list “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants”, by S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna and organized by the British magazine “Restaurant” (www.theworlds50best.com), are dominated by Noma in Copenhagen which is also famous as the mermaid, followed by El Cellar by Can Roca in Girona, and our Massimo Bottura of the Osteria Francescana Modena where an ex excellent special menu costs 180 € plus 130 for the matching wine. With the prices seen before this seems much more than reasonable.