If food is your passion and your pocket is ‘full,’ dining in one of the most expensive restaurants is a truly unique experience!
Ithaa Underwater Restaurant
Dining in a spectacularly beautiful underwater restaurant is not a dream anymore. The world’s first undersea restaurant of its kind, the fabulous Ithaa at the unique Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa, is open since 2005, offering genuine dining experience you’ll not soon forget.
Designed and developed by a New Zealand-based design consultancy company, Ithaa Restaurant was built 5 meters (15 feet) below sea level at tremendous cost of $5 million. To enter the 14-seat restaurant, visitors climb down a spiral staircase in a thatched pavilion at the end of a jetty. The fine Maldivian cuisine and the stunning marine environment of the Maldives are waiting for you from 11:00am in the morning to 12:00 am in the evening in all weekdays and weekends.
It’s estimated that the restaurant, which is placed in such extreme conditions, will only last for 20 years. So, do not miss this wonder out!
Aragawa
Do you want to satisfy your taste buds with the melt-in-your-mouth Kobe beef — the holy grail of marbleized meats served simply in mustard and pepper? Head to Aragawa, a little steak house in Tokyo’s Shinbashi district that doesn’t fail to occupy the top position in the ‘world’s most expensive restaurants’ list. Like many of Japan’s high-end, hidden restaurants, Aragawa doesn’t have a Web site or grandiose décor, but the prices are ‘jaw dropping,’ starting from $370 per person. However, it is said that after trying Aragawa’s hand-fed Kobe beef, you’ll not mind breaking the bank on the bill.
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée – a new vision on haute cuisine.
One of best Paris restaurants, the appealing Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée is a place to come to see and enjoy magnificent caviar, lobster, crayfish, sea potatoes, tea-glazed pigeon fillets in a shallot and mustard sauce, duckling, and much more, brilliantly cooked by Christophe Moret and Alain Ducasse – the first chef to receive a total of 9 Michelin Stars for three restaurants. The restaurant boasts a fascinating interior design, dominated by an enormous chandelier whose 10,000 crystals shimmer like raindrops. The remarkable cellar offers a variety of 35,000 bottles, including rare Cheval Blan, Margaux and Latour. The restaurant is open Mondays through Wednesdays from 7:45 to 10:15 pm, and Thursdays and Fridays from 12:45 to 2:15 pm and 7:45 to 10:15 pm. Keep in mind that to enter here jacket is required and a tie recommended.
Masa – bridging oceans and cultures
If money is no object, a visit to Masa – an elegantly designed Japanese Restaurant in New York is a must. Opened by Masa Takayama in 2004, it broke into the ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ in 2007 and now is the most expensive restaurant in New York. What you see, smell, her, touch and taste at Masa Restaurant all spring from the same complex sensibility – the ideas of shibui, that is the honest presentation of materials, and the ideas of umami – the basic essence or flavor inherent in each ingredient. Dress code is casual and comfortable.
Other expensive restaurants worth a visit include: Solo Per Due in Umbria, Italy; Eagle Ski Club, Gstaad, Switzerland; French Laundry; Napa Valley, California; El Bulli, Roses, Gerona, Spain; and II Teatro, Macau.
