If you want to eat your way through New York City, you can settle for coffee carts and dollar pizza or you can do things in style.
With over-the-top options ranging from a $2,000 omelette to a $315 shot of bourbon, NYC is brimming with the best of the best when it comes to food.
Below, we've rounded up six of the most extravagant dishes you can find in the Big Apple, which will cost you a collective $6,529 — and that's before tax and tip.
Breakfast: $3,000 for eggs and a bagel
Start at Norma's, where the "Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata" costs $2,000.
This dish includes 10 ounces of Sevurga caviar, an entire lobster, six fresh eggs, cream, chives and lobster sauce. It's served over a bed of Yukon gold potatoes.
The frittata first debuted on Norma's menu back in 2004, when Le Parker Meridien's president, Steven Pipes, and Norma's executive chef, Emile Castillo, were brainstorming a way to incorporate caviar into an omelet. Their strategy? Go big or go home.
"Since it would be costly, they decided to have some fun with it," Lisa Tharp, director of guest communications for Le Parker Meridien, tells CNBC Make It.
Still hungry? Head over to the Westin New York at Times Square for a $1,000 bagel.
From November 1 through December 15, the hotel is offering an upscale bagel topped with white truffle cream cheese, goji berry-infused Reisling jelly and gold flakes, Fortune reports.
"I wanted to create something that speaks to New York, and is also a reflection of my culinary passion for seasonality and fine ingredients," the bagel's creator, chef Frank Tujague, tells Fortune.
The extravagance is for a good cause, however. All proceeds go to the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, New York City's largest emergency food program.
Lunch: $214 for a grilled cheese
At Serendipity 3, the chef makes a record-breaking $214 grilled cheese.
Formally named " The Quintessential Grilled Cheese Sandwich," the dish officially holds the title of the most expensive sandwich in the world, according to Guinness World Records.
"It's like a grilled cheese on steroids," Joe Calderone, the Serendipity chef who invented the cheesy indulgence, tells CNBC.
If you want to eat your way through New York City, you can settle for coffee carts and dollar pizza or you can do things in style.
With over-the-top options ranging from a $2,000 omelette to a $315 shot of bourbon, NYC is brimming with the best of the best when it comes to food.
Below, we've rounded up six of the most extravagant dishes you can find in the Big Apple, which will cost you a collective $6,529 — and that's before tax and tip.
Breakfast: $3,000 for eggs and a bagel
Start at Norma's, where the "Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata" costs $2,000.
This dish includes 10 ounces of Sevurga caviar, an entire lobster, six fresh eggs, cream, chives and lobster sauce. It's served over a bed of Yukon gold potatoes.
The "Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata" from Norma's in NYC's Le Parker Meridien hotel.
Le Parker Meridien
The "Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata" from Norma's in NYC's Le Parker Meridien hotel.
The frittata first debuted on Norma's menu back in 2004, when Le Parker Meridien's president, Steven Pipes, and Norma's executive chef, Emile Castillo, were brainstorming a way to incorporate caviar into an omelet. Their strategy? Go big or go home.
"Since it would be costly, they decided to have some fun with it," Lisa Tharp, director of guest communications for Le Parker Meridien, tells CNBC Make It.
Still hungry? Head over to the Westin New York at Times Square for a $1,000 bagel.
From November 1 through December 15, the hotel is offering an upscale bagel topped with white truffle cream cheese, goji berry-infused Reisling jelly and gold flakes, Fortune reports.
The Westin New York at Times Square
"I wanted to create something that speaks to New York, and is also a reflection of my culinary passion for seasonality and fine ingredients," the bagel's creator, chef Frank Tujague, tells Fortune.
The extravagance is for a good cause, however. All proceeds go to the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, New York City's largest emergency food program.
Lunch: $214 for a grilled cheese
At Serendipity 3, the chef makes a record-breaking $214 grilled cheese.
Formally named " The Quintessential Grilled Cheese Sandwich," the dish officially holds the title of the most expensive sandwich in the world, according to Guinness World Records.
"It's like a grilled cheese on steroids," Joe Calderone, the Serendipity chef who invented the cheesy indulgence, tells CNBC.
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The sandwich starts with plush French bread that has Dom Perignon champagne and 23-karat gold baked throughout. It's then stuffed with caciocavallo podolico, a rare cheese imported from southern Italy, brushed with butter and a mixture of white truffle oil and gold flakes and warmed in a panini press. More gold is pressed on top.
Dinner: $2,000 for pizza
You can't visit New York without grabbing a slice. Keep things luxe with Industry Kitchen's $2,000 pizza pie.
With this dish, Chef Braulio Bunay wanted to create a delicacy to honor the restaurant's proximity to Wall Street. As with any pie, it all starts with the crust, in this case a special black dough made from Indian squid ink and special flour imported from Italy, then sprinkled with gold flakes from Ecuador.
After it's fired in the oven briefly, the crust is coated with a special white Stilton cheese from England and topped with thick slices of foie gras and $300 worth of black truffles, both flown in from France. It's then covered in Osetra caviar fresh from the Caspian Sea, edible gold made in Germany and rose petals for a pop of color.
"It was comforting and decadent and earthy and blingy all at the same time," writes CNBC's "Secret Lives of the Super Rich" host Robert Frank, about his experience trying the pie. "It was one of the best bites of anything I've ever tasted."
Dessert: $1,000 sundae
For dessert, head back to Serendipity to try their $1,000 "Golden Opulence Sundae."
