The World’s Most Expensive Burger - flame grilled Waygu Beef, topped with white truffles in an Iran saffron and truffle bun - is to go on sale at a fast food restaurant.

Burger King’s £95 sandwich, named simply The Burger, will make Guinness World Record history beating a similarly extravagant American Double Truffle Burger which cost just £65 in 1994.

The world’s most succulent Japanese beef is complemented with white truffles, onion tempura prepared in Cristal champagne and Italy’s finest Pata Negra prosciutto

Restaurant critics have dismissed the burger as just the latest stunt in a marketing craze which has seen Selfridges charge £85 for a sandwich and Peter Jones, the Sloane Square department store, ask £50 for a cup of coffee pre-digested by a Civet cat.

Source: Telegraph

Anytime a spice product comes with a disclaimer that you have to approve, you know it’s serious — and Blair’s 16 Million Reserve Crystals ($545 and up) are indeed serious. Limited to a run of 999, the gold and white wax-sealed bottle holds inside a 1ml pharmaceutical grade vial packed with pure capsaicin crystal, the main active component of chili peppers. To put it another way, this is absolutely the hottest hot sauce product known to man.

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If there is one food we cannot live without, it is pizza. Above our images of my good friend Dave who happens to have the gnarliest obsession with pizza I’ve ever heard of. Dave is a from Jersey making him close to NYC, which means he does not mess around when it comes to a slice, or in this is case, a whole pie. Seen above in his therapeutic haven, Dave is gorging his brains out on an official Larry & Carol’s ‘King Kong’ Pizza. This bad boy runs about $30.00 depending on topping choice and is capable of feeding a large family. The pizza itself is actually very tasty considering its colossal size.

More importantly, Dave managed to scarf down six slices of pepperoni in about 30 minutes, certifying him as mentally insane. So if your ever in Pittsburgh and have a serious itch for a good pie, the ‘Kong’ is a must. But be careful, this monster doesn’t fit through most doors, so plan a picnic unless you want to unhinge your door to get this beast inside.

Attention Burger Connoisseurs: Le Burger Brasserie Sports Grille is located in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Paris Las Vegas. This upbeat spot is notorious (in my mind) for one thing: a burger. They offer a repertoire of burgers in a palette of “Le Boeuf” (beef), “Le Poulet” (chicken), “Le Salmon” (salmon), “L’Agneau” (lamb) and “Les Legumes” (veggies), but one stands alone. The kobe beef and Maine lobster burger with caramelized onions, Brie cheese, crispy prosciutto, topped with 100-year-aged balsamic vinegar!

Sliced, sizzled and slathered with cheese. The famous Philly Cheesesteak serves as an iconic representation of Philly and now, an expensive luxury. That’s because Chef James Locascio, of Rittenhouse Square’s Barclay Prime, created Philadelphia’s “haute” cheesesteak, an upscale version of the sandwich that includes butter poached lobster and shaved truffles.

“It’s every ingredient you want to try in a life time in one,” said Locascio. Still, that kind of lavishness doesn’t come cheap. For one cheesesteak, expect to pay $100. That is nearly 15 times more than the original. “We made sure we had the best beef we could find, the best lobster and the right cheese,” explains Locascio. To get top of the line ingredients, Locascio says it costs $17 per pound for cheese, $21 per pound for Kobe beef and $900 per pound for summer truffles.

So who buys the costly sandwich? On average, five or six customers order it per night and many share it as an appetizer. Locascio says, “It all adds up, a quarter of a million dollars a year in cheesesteaks is pretty good.” With other steak shops selling their sandwich for about $7 a pop, you might say that’s really good.

This sandwich has Dave Procaccini’s name written all over it.

Source: CBS

Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali. The town is located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the island’s central foothills in the Gianyar regency. One of Bali’s major arts and culture centres, it has developed a large tourism industry. The specialty in Ubud is the nasi babi guling (roast suckling pig), which can be found all over the island. This dish is an all-in-one platter of rice with pork meat, fried pork skin, pig intestines, gizzet, and vegetables and apparently the best place to get it is Warung’s Ibu Oka.

Babi Guling at Ibu Oku is considered a Balinese delicacy for locals and tourists. The food stall has stood there for the past 20 years, serving up what many say is some of the best pork in the world. Half a dozen live pigs are housed at the back of the compound, snuffling, eating, sleeping and generally enjoying life before the pre-dawn kill that will have them cleaned, gutted, stuffed and spitted by 4 a.m., ready for the Warung’s 11 a.m. opening.

For those of you who are curious to what Babi Guling actually is, it is a roast suckling pig packed full of Balinese herbs and spices, such as shallots, garlic, chili, ginger, galangal, turmeric and bay leaves, then roasted over an open fire for at least five hours while continulously being lathered with coconut milk. This is five hours of hot, heavy work for the cooks who rotate, non-stop, the wooden spit by hand, regularly dousing the flames with water to maintain the perfect cooking temperature. Getting the temperature right is an art that has been handed down from generation to generation, the suckling pigs slowly developing that warm golden sheen that makes for the best crackling, the inner meat cooking slowly until it is utterly succulent. Prominent chefs like Jamie Oliver and Anthony Bourdain say this is the best pork in the world.

Ibu Oka learned this art — along with the business — from her parents-in-law 25 years ago. She adds that her in-laws had been preparing Babi Guling for 33 years before she took on the business.

“The family has been making Babi Guling for almost 60 years. Two generations of us. Originally, the business started at the market. I ran it there for the first five years after my parents-in-law died, and then moved the warung to Jl. Suweta 20 years ago,” she said of the business that now involves her whole family.

For pork eaters, this is the mother of all pork dishes. The pork meat is nicely marinated and very tender. The fried pork skin is very crispy and delicious. The atmosphere is very casual, everyone sits on the floor, sharing a long low table while Ibu Oka, the owner of the stall I presume, shaves the tender juicy meat off the pig hanging on the kitchen. Ibu Oka is highly recommended just for the experience of a local food stall, and also for the lovely pork dish.

I received an e-mail this morning from my good friend Shane who happens to be in Toyko at the moment indulging in the fine art of Japanese cuisine. Shane specifically e-mailed me to inform me of what type of restaurants and food he has been experiencing daily. Yesterday seemed to be a big day for Shane after attending a Yomiuri Giants game, Shane ate at a famous Soba restaurant called Gonpachi. Soba is a type of thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour. It is served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or in hot or cold broth as a noodle soup composed of soy sauce and onions.

For those of you unfamiliar with Gonpachi, it is the Japanese restaurant which was Quentin Tarantino’s inspiration for the restaurant The House of Blue Leaves in Kill BIll. The Interior of the restaurant is apparently incredible, which is arranged by two stories with everything opening up to the kitchen as the focal point. All of the wood work in the restaurant is done in Edo Style (Medieval Japanese).

Gonpachi has two different locations. One being in Toyko and the other in Los Angeles. If your ever in either city, please do yourself a favor and gorge.

“Whether you fill it with ricotta, farmer, or goat cheese, cheese curd, mascarpone, or cream cheese, the smooth taste is iconic.”

Watch The Making of Ciro Marino’s Famous Cheesecake

After watching this video, some of you might think I have a problem. I wouldn’t call it a problem, I would call it a passion. I do research daily and strive to find local eateries like this one. I haven’t had Ciro Marino’s Cheesecake YET and I already know it’s probably the best on the planet. So if your ever in Hollywood and feel like gorging cheesecake, cruise by Marino Ristorante for a slice of heaven. Check out Ciro’s famous ricotta recipe below.

Ciro Marino’s Ricotta Cheesecake Recipe

Source: Los Angeles Times

Dear fellow burrito eaters, I have extremely heart breaking news. Taco trucks are on the brink of extinction.

Living here in San Diego, eating Mexican is a must. This is important to those of you who live in L.A. as well and love your burritos and tacos to come from convenient, portable kitchens. Some curmudgeons down there are trying to essentially Legislate Taco Trucks Out of Existence. Some locals have even started a campaign against this patently ridiculous legislation, and they’ve come up with the best slogan in the history of the human race:

Carne Asada Is Not A Crime.

If they come for the taco trucks, will the taquerias be next?

Click Here and sign the petition!

Source: Burritophile

Papa John’s Pizza issued an apology to Cleveland and the Cavaliers for making T-shirts with LeBron James‘ number and the word “crybaby” under it.

To apologize, Papa John’s will sell Cleveland residents a large, one-topping pizza for 23 cents on Thursday (5-8-08). The company also will donate $10,000 to the Cavaliers Youth Fund.

The pizza chain’s T-shirts were featured during the Cavs’ games against the Wizards on Friday in Washington. Wizards fans taunted the Cavs, who won the playoff series that night in Game 6.

The shirts started after James complained about hard fouls, and Wizards center Brendan Haywood called him a crybaby.

So if you interested in gorging your brains out this Thursday, head to Cleveland to with a quarter and prepare to feast on ridiculously cheap pie!