Author Topic: The 250 hamburger (Read 5568 times)

poche · « **on:** May 14, 2014, 12:13:30 AM »

When a new restaurant in New York City announced that it was going to offer a burger on its menu for $250 and call it the Indulgence Burger, we had to find out what could make a burger so expensive.

So with curiosity and an empty stomach, we visited the inventor of the burger to see for ourselves. Chef Nok of Beer and Buns in Manhattan is not only the creator of the burger; he’s also the only person who’s allowed to make it.

The ingredients are so specialized, it needs to be ordered a day in advance and the restaurant cannot afford to let anyone else cook the burger.

The table of ingredients that Chef Nok has laid out in preparation to make the burger includes: foie gras, beluga caviar, shaved truffle, a freshly ground Kobe beef patty, pancetta, caviar mayonnaise, and heirloom tomatoes.

The ingredients were clearly indulgent, but how does it taste? It was delicious, of course, but with a $250 price tag you better really like burgers.

This isn’t the first restaurant to make a burger into a status symbol; in fact it’s become a bit of a trend. Serendipity 3 in New York sells a similarly indulgent burger for $295, making Chef Nok’s burger the 2nd most expensive in New York

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/up-for-anything-abc-news/makes-burger-cost-250-174919732.html

crossbro · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2014, 12:57:47 AM »

If I was mentally retarded I might drive past McDonalds to buy one of those.

poche · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2014, 03:58:15 AM »

Quote from: crossbro

If I was mentally retarded I might drive past McDonalds to buy one of those.

You can't just drive in and get it. You would have to order it a day in advance.

PerEvangelicaDicta · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2014, 08:43:39 AM »

Of course it had to be kobe or wagyu beef.
There are quite a few restaurants in the greater Miami area that offer these gourmet hamburgers with just about identical ingredients, for 65- 75. Such a bargain! :ready-to-eat:

A family member stayed in that area at a hotel that featured kobe steaks in their restaurant (dinner menu) for a small fortune (hundreds). He looked at the lunch menu and they offered these specialty kobe beef burgers for approx 20. For that price, he tried it to see 'what all the fuss is about'. Apparently, if you have the money, it's worth every cent.

You'd have to be pagan though, to enjoy it, don't you think?
How can a soul with a conscience truly enjoy a 250 hamburger when there are other good Catholics struggling to survive?

Dolores · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2014, 10:17:35 AM »

Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta

You'd have to be pagan though, to enjoy it, don't you think?
How can a soul with a conscience truly enjoy a 250 hamburger when there are other good Catholics struggling to survive?

Sounds like a rather Marxist thing to say.

Would you be saying the same thing if someone was spending the same amount of money on traditional French cuisine?