Fast food is good because it is cheap, quick to prepare and saves us time: it can be eaten in a few minutes. It is, as long as you don’t order those gourmet and overpriced versions of common fast food dishes. What do you think? Do they look appetizing or is it a waste of money?
Macaroni and cheese
Macaroni and cheese is popular among children, as well as among students living separately from their parents for the first time, because of its cheapness and ease of preparation. Perhaps it was the popularity of this dish that led to its absurdly expensive version at the French cuisine restaurant “Mélisse” in Santa Monica (California, USA).
Their version of macaroni and cheese is made with fresh pasta, Parmesan cheese, truffles whipped with dark butter until frothy, and thinly sliced white truffles. Among other things, this dish can be ordered in the restaurant between October and December – during the season of truffles. So start saving money because one serving will cost you $95.
Taco
Tacos are known to be cheap. After all, how else would the Taco Bell chain of fast food restaurants have survived in business for more than half a century? But the American restaurant “Café on the Green” in Dallas (Texas, USA) tries to move away from the “Taco Bell” as much as possible both in terms of quality of food and prices.
The restaurant serves three types of tacos at a staggering $100 each. And finally, the third type of taco is prepared with American lobster, caviar seeds and Aleppo chili.
Soup
Soup is tasty and healthy. There are several delicious soups that are sold in cans for less than a dollar. Or, if you’re not in the mood to heat up your meal and are ready to eat some very ordinary soup for lunch, there are Subway fast food restaurants located around the world and open around the clock.
To taste this soup, you need to make a reservation 5 days before visiting the restaurant and be ready to shell out $190.
Sandwich
The Hot Cheese Sandwich is such a simple dish that most people don’t order it when they go to a restaurant because you can make it yourself at home in just a few minutes. Take two pieces of bread, brush with butter, put a piece of cheese (at least one) between them and fry in a pan on one or both sides until golden brown.
However, each person has his own recipe for making a sandwich. Serendipity 3 restaurant (New York, USA) has a special recipe, which serves the world’s most expensive hot cheese sandwich. It also has a name – “The most typical hot cheese sandwich” (“Quintessential Grilled Cheese Sandwich”).
White truffle paste is used as the oil. The sandwich is made with the rarest and most expensive gourmet Italian cheese called “Caciocavallo Podolico”, made from the milk of cows fed exclusively on aromatic fennel herbs and wild strawberries.
The hot sandwich wrapped in thin gold leaf is served with South African lobster tomato soup and truffle oil. One serving of soup with a sandwich will cost $214.
Baked potatoes
What else can you make a baked potato with other than butter, onions, sour cream, cheese, bacon slices, and maybe a little chili pepper? After all, this is one of the most unpretentious dishes baked in the oven for about an hour.
If you do not take into account that these are “just potatoes baked in the oven for an hour”, then it becomes clear why the French cuisine restaurant “Caviar Kaspia” (Paris, France) cooks potatoes baked on both sides, topped with beluga caviar, served with fresh cream (crème fraîche).
A mother-of-pearl spoon is served with the dish. For that baked potato, you’ll shell out $460, which would be worth a few steak and baked potato dinners at most traditional meat restaurants.
Hamburger
In many fast food establishments across America, you can order a hamburger for about a dollar. Or head to Fleur de Lys at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) and order a $5,000 Fleurburger 5000 hamburger.
The price is actually misleading as this dish comes with a $5,000 bottle of Chateau Petrus wine, so you actually get the hamburger for free. The burger is made with Kobe beef, grilled truffles, foie gras and served in a toasted sweet brioche bun.
“Douche Burger” is a Kobe beef patty bun seasoned with Himalayan rock salt and wrapped in thin gold leaf. On top of the cutlet is crowned with foie gras, caviar, lobster, truffles and Gruyère cheese melted in champagne vapor.The food truck owner admits that a hamburger may not be the best, but it will make you feel rich while you eat it. Let’s hope this feeling is worth it, because after you eat it, you will be $666 poorer.
