Dining
A Manhattan restaurant’s $69 hot dog has been declared the world’s most expensive hot dog by the Guinness World Records.
Restaurant Serendipity 3, which also holds the record for the world’s most expensive ice-cream sundae at $1,000 and the largest hot chocolate at four gallons (15 litres), set its latest record on Friday – National Hot Dog Day in the US.
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by Lana Galea July 26, 2010
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Dining
Measuring just six inches high, the world’s most expensive pineapple was grown in Cornwall in a glasshouse heated by horse manure.
But while the tiny fruit – cultivated in the pineapple pit at the Lost Gardens of Heligan – may be half the size of the average supermarket pineapple, it carries a much larger than average estimated price tag of £10,000, which covers labour costs, equipment – and urine-soaked hay.
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by Lana Galea July 14, 2010
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Dining
A Danish restaurant has been named the best in the world, knocking Spain’s exclusive El Bulli off the top of the list for the first time in five years.
Noma, which serves up Nordic specialities – such as radishes in edible soil - in a converted 18th century shipping warehouse on Copenhagen’s dockside, was crowned number one at the annual S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards in London.
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by Lana Galea July 8, 2010
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Dining
A central London restaurant is offering what it claims is the world’s most expensive omelette.
The restaurant, Boisdale, has put a crab, lobster, asparagus and truffle omelette on its menu, costing about ten times the price of a normal omelette.
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by Lana Galea May 9, 2010
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Dining
Cheese has been a dairy favourite among many since ancient times – its origins even pre-dating recorded history. It comes in several forms, flavours and textures and can feature in anything from a pizza to a platter accompanying a bottle of fine wine.
But there’s one type of cheese which you’re not very likely to come by very often – the world’s most expensive cheese.
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by Lana Galea March 31, 2010
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Dining
As the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water, many of us enjoy unwinding with a hot cup of tea after a hard day’s work.
Tea comes in many forms – such as white, green, oolong and black – and can be packaged in several forms – including as loose leaf tea, compressed tea, instant tea, or as tea bags.
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by Lana Galea March 26, 2010
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Dining
Ferran Adrià, owner of the restaurant famed as being the best in the world, El Bulli, has decided to close the restaurant at the end of the year.
Adrià said he would be taking a hiatus from El Bulli as of 2012 to explore new gastronomy trends and to do some teaching in the United States, before re-opening for the 2014 season.
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by Lana Galea March 6, 2010
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Celebrities
Spandau Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley helped deliver a gold leaf-covered special edition of a Wispa Gold bar, priced at a gobsmacking £961.48, to London store Selfridges on August 3, 2009.
Hadley was helping to promote the relaunch of the once popular Cadbury’s treat, which went back on sale at the more reasonable price of 55p in September 2009, six years after it was originally discontinued. The chocolate bar went back into production following a huge campaign on Facebook, where more than 22,000 people joined the group “Bring back Cadbury’s Wispa Gold”.
Hadley was accompanied by a full security team to ensure the luxury chocolate bar was kept under lock and key.
The bar is covered in edible gold leaf and sheathed in a gold leaf wrapper, and its price is said to be the precise value of its weight in gold.
All proceeds from its sale went to the UK Lowe Syndrome Trust, of which Hadley is patron.
by Lana Galea January 4, 2010
Tags: Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley, world's most expensive chocolate bar, world's most expensive food