Summary The meal will be prepared by Ben Spalding and his team.
NEW YORK: Featuring a £2,600 watermelon and a £5000 serving of pistachios, the £125,000 menu will provide dinner for four.
Costing £125,000 for four people, or £31,250 per person, the menu for what will be the world’s most expensive Christmas dinner menu has been devised by London chef Ben Spalding, who has completed residencies at restaurants including The Fat Duck in Bray, Gordon Ramsay’s Royal Hospital Road and Per Se in New York.
Among the ingredients being used are a Yubari King melon costing £2,500, in addition the the £2,600 Densuke watermelon; 150-year-old balsamic vinegar costing £1,030; whole white Alba truffle costing £3,500; and gold leaf coming in at £6,000. To drink, a £37,000 bottle of Piper Heidsieck 1907 champagne will be served in diamond-studded flutes; diners who prefer spirits can sip from a £2,000 stock of DIVA vodka, described as a “diamond-sand-filtered vodka” and served in a bottle that is filled with Swarovski crystals.
The focal point of the meal will be the traditional Christmas turkey, served this time with Dodine turkey and with Wagyu beef fillet and heart. It will be wrapped in gold leaf and sprinkled with Akbari pistachios. For dessert, the quartet will conclude their £125,000 meal with whipped Kopi Luwak, a coffee bean, and Densuke watermelon.
The meal will be prepared by Ben Spalding and his team at the guests’ home - it seems safe to assume that whoever pays for the service will have enough space in their residence to accommodate them – and it is being offered by site VeryFirstTo.com, which specialises in debuting one-off or rare events and experiences throughout the world. Spalding is donating 80 per cent of his fee to Cancer Research UK and Hospitality Action.
