Friday, December 30, 2011
The $5,000 "Fleur Burger 5000"
Some time ago, I had heard what sounded like a bogus rumor about a $5,000 burger that was put on the regular menu of a restaurant somewhere; & that it shattered the previous record for world's most expensive burger. That distinction, if you care to know, was held by the £95 (or roughly $150) burger introduced by a Burger King in the UK back in 2008. But a $5,000 burger!? I mean, is it possible that there is a chef out there with the audacity to put something like this on their menu - and more importantly, are there people who are crazy enough to buy it? Well....yes, and yes. French chef Hubert Keller features the $5,000 Fleur Burger 5000 on the dinner menu of his Las Vegas restaurant, Fleur (located in the Mandalay Bay Casino). What goes into a $5K burger, you ask? The Fleur Burger 5000 is made with a hearty slab of a Wagyu Kobe beef patty that's topped with an equally impressive slice of foie gras and black truffle shavings. All of it is carefully held together with a brioche truffle bun and drizzled with a rich truffle sauce. Your Fleur Burger, should you be rich (or drunk) enough to actually order one, comes with a bottle of 1990 Chateau Petrus. Turns out, the '90 will run you $3,000. So the burger itself is actually only about $2,000. Though it's not clear whether Keller allows patrons to order the burger without the bottle. I guess I'll never know....
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