This is just expensive dining out

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the foodies of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: the most expensive restaurant in the world.

Because those euros won't go with you when you're dead, sings Kraantje Pappie. That's why: raise the limit on your credit card, and go out to eat in the most expensive restaurants in the world – if you dare.

Fruit pill dolls
This is not a restaurant, this is a concept, they say on the website of Sublimotion, the restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel in Ibiza. The most expensive concept in the world, indeed: 1,500 euros. Per person. And in three hours you're back outside. What do you experience? Moving images are projected onto the table that match the dishes of the famous chef Paco Roncero (two Michelin stars). Eyewitnesses talk about 17 courses, edible menus, snacks floating to the table on balloons, fruit pills, and of course caviar, oysters, and champagne – all while wearing a virtual reality headset.

Ice cream for the little one? Cash register!
Tartare of top-quality bluefin tuna, in perfect cubes, with osetra caviar. As a starter. That says it all: sushi restaurant Masa in New York, with chef Masayoshi Takayama, is the pinnacle of decadence. A scoop of ice cream: 45 dollars. Maki sushi: 240 dollars. Grilled shrimp: 60 dollars. The real snob turns up their spoiled nose at it, because the culinary elite of The Big Apple has decided that Masa is overpriced and overrated, but every evening the place is packed and the average guest happily pays 1,500 dollars for a dinner for two.

Three meters underwater
The most beautiful restaurant in the world, according to The New York Daily News, is Ithaa in the Maldives. It looks like a thatched hut above the sea, but then you go down the stairs, down, where a table is set in a glass tunnel. Above, left, right: everywhere that bright blue sea with shimmering fish and on your plate lobster carpaccio, agnolotti, and something complicated with truffle and mascarpone. Three meters below the water surface, you can have lunch or dinner with up to 13 friends for a tidy 400 dollars per person.

Family restaurant
Do you love Japanese? Then come along to the family restaurant of Kunio Tokuoka. On the menu of his restaurant Kyoto Kitcho Arashiyama in Kyoto, not many surprises: starter, soup, sashimi, some grilled items, something stewed, and that with rice and pickled vegetables. The bill is sure to be a surprise: almost 80,000 yen per person, which is about 650 euros. Including green tea, of course.

Cash from the vegetable garden
According to Anthony Bourdain ‘the best restaurant in the world, period.’ The French Laundry in Napa Valley is a household name. On the menu classic French, so frog legs, mandarin suprême, and poularde with sauce bordelaise. At least: if it's currently growing in the vegetable garden, because French Laundry cooks with the seasons. The menu also features a fancy mac & cheese, with truffle from Périgord, for an extra 125 dollars. Check, please! That makes it 325 dollars, excluding tip.

Image:  Restaurant Ithaa | Text: FavorFlav