Would you pay £350 for a burger that doesn’t even come with fries?
Otto’s Le Burger Deluxe comes with four prime cuts of meat and one big price tag.
If you like your burgers cheap and cheerful, look away now.
An upmarket restaurant in London is selling a burger for a meaty £350.
What’s even more remarkable than the menu price is the fact that it doesn’t even come with fries. Or a bun.
So, what do you get for your £350 at Otto’s French Restaurant?
A very special sandwich
If you are looking to try the burger, or Otto’s Le Burger Deluxe, to use its full name, the first thing to point out is you’ll need to pre-order as it requires some notice to ensure freshness.
So no turning up on the night after a few beers and expecting to take a couple home with you!
Once you’ve made your preparations, you’ll be treated to a burger that really does sound like no other.
Let’s start by looking at the patty, which the restaurant explains is made with four different cuts of meat: fillet, sirloin, ribeye and lamb.
In the absence of a bun, it comes surrounded by Oscietra caviar, seared foie gras and pommes soufflées.
That's topped with a lobster claw, shaved truffle and ‘Bresse chicken essence’.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Burger Deluxe is the most expensive single item on the menu at Otto’s French Restaurant: the next priciest option we could find on the menu was steak tartare with seared foie gras, which costs £180.
The world’s most expensive burger?
While the Deluxe burger is obviously out of most people’s price range, it’s by no means the priciest patty on the market.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, that title belongs to The Golden Boy.
It was a one-off burger created by Dutch chef Robbert Jan de Veenin and costs an incredible é5,000 (£4,380).
While it contains many of the ingredients you might expect from an upmarket burger – Wagyu beef patty Spanish Iberico ham, white truffle, BBQ sauce – there is a particular unusual ingredient that drives up the price.
As you can see in the image below, the bun is completely covered in gold leaf.
While that does make the burger somewhat gimmicky, Chef Robbert was insistent that it tastes extraordinary, sourcing 148 different ingredients from around the world.
“There were a few challenges, not going to lie about that,” he told the Guinness Book of Records.
“But the first big one was: how are we going to make sure that this burger is going to taste awesome?
“I mean, it's easy to just take a few really expensive ingredients and put them on a burger. But for me, it was very important that the burger also tastes awesome.
“I wanted to see how far we can go with it, how much we can put into it - and still make sure that the five tastes are in perfect harmony.
“The second big challenge was to source the ingredients.
“For example, a few ingredients that are in the burger are normally not available in the Netherlands, but I had great help from my suppliers.”
While many might view spending the best part of £4,400 on a burger as wasteful, it is heartwarming to note that all the funds went to a local food bank, helping deliver 1,000 food packages to households in need.
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