What Could Possibly Make This Pizza Worth $1,000?
- Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:27pm by
Becket Adams
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Seriously, a $1,000 pizza? Like the headline asks, what could possibly make it worth that much?
Three words: caviar and lobster. But mostly the caviar.
Restaurateur Nino Selimaj on Wednesday introduced the world to his “Bellisima Pizza”: a 12 inch, thin crust pizza topped with $820 dollars worth of six different types of caviar, lobster, creme fraiche, and chives, Reuters reports.
If you cut it eight ways, that’s $125 a slice.
Image courtesy Everett Bogue
“I know this won’t be for everyone but there are people in New York who can afford it and once tried, they’ll be back for more. It is delicious,” said Selimaj, an Albanian native who moved to the U.S. almost 29 years ago and currently owns five restaurants in New York City.
“Sure, some people will say it is just a publicity stunt but I have researched this for over a year and think there is a demand. I have already sold one,” he added.
But don’t think you can walk right in his Nino’s Bellissima restaurant and expect them to make you the “Bellissima Pizza” on the fly. You’ll need to give them 24 hours notice because they order the caviar in advance.
“[W]here better to experiment with pizza than in New York where people love their pizza?” he added.
(H/T: The Consumerist)
Front page photo source: Everett Bogue
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Comments (48)
tiki886
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:41amNo way! That’s 200 Big Macs! I’d rather have the Big Macs!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:43amDisliking the taste of Roe… turns out to be a Great Benefit!
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 5:41pmPeople who waste this much money just make me sick!!
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 5:54pmIf you have $2000 you could have pizza then hop on over to Serendipity 3 and have their $1000 ice cream sundae!
But yeah, I’d rather have a big mac…. or stuffed crust from pizza hut.
Report Post »mbnimble
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 6:02pmHahaha the guy with name “socialistslayer” objects to someone spending $1,000 on a pizza. Maybe you can help them spend it a little better :) God Bless America
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:20ambut does it have cheese in the crust?
Report Post »venerablebede
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:08am“but does it have cheese in the crust?”
No, just diamonds.
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:20amThe only one who bought one was Bloomberg.Everyone else is trying to pay bills.
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:52amwe have a local take and bake pizza place and i order the vegetarian pizza and ask to have sausage and pepperoni added … the gal says but sir this is a vegetarian pizza …i responded with mam .. everything i eat was a vegetarian …lolz
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:39amDoesn’t look very appetizing. I’d rather just have some lobster.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:03amIt is worthless to me Im like Tom Hanks in “big” when it comes to caviar , Vile stuff have at it , you can have mine .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J62jciQ1PbY
Report Post »Karama
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 4:21amI won’t even hardly pay $50 for a shirt or a new pair of shoes. What in H#ll makes this person think I would pay that for Pizza. I’m sure there is some loon with money who is willing, but that would not be me. Even if I did have that kind of money I wouldn’t waste it on something as silly as this.
Report Post »GenOptimus
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 4:05amFinally! A pizza priced high enough for michelle obama to eat. 900 dallors can‘t buy a decent pair of earrings for her but maybe it’ll help her buy lunch.
Report Post »menticide
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:23amHuh? Introduced to the world on Wednesday? Than why was it featured on a Travel Channel television show over four years ago?
Report Post »mtnvortex
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:05amNew York pizza is waaaaaaay over-hyped. Most of it is your typical round pizza. Sure, it’s good, and a lot better than Dominos and those chains. But…If you ever get the chance, Old Forge pizza is far superior. You can find great pizza at any number of places in Old Forge, Pa and the boroughs surrounding Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It’s rectangular pizza, but not like that big sponge crust Sicilian that you find in NYC and elsewhere. It‘s a style all it’s own, and everyone’s got to try a few places before you die. Trust me.
Report Post »DoomsdayProphet
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:34amAldos pizza shrewsbury pa. people come from southern virginia for it.
Report Post »mtnvortex
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 2:44amI’ll have to check it out next time I cruise down 81. Always up for a good pizza.
Report Post »cliffchism
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 1:10amWe were so busy, thinking about whether or not we could, that we didn’t think about whether or not we should.
-Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 12:48am“…a 12 inch, thin crust pizza topped with $820 dollars worth of six different types of caviar, lobster, creme fraiche, and chives.”
$1,000 – $820 = $180 for the thin crust and tomato sauce. Sounds like a US Government $3,000 hammer or a $20,000 toilet seat.
Does it come with a free topping of Harry Reid’s “Cowboy Poetry Feasible”?
Report Post »Dishevel
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:34pmSounds more like an 18% profit.
Report Post »Rather meager I would say. If I went to any other restaurant and ordered $1000 worth of food and the cost of the food itself to the restaurant was $820 I think I would be getting a decent deal.
BlazeGlory
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 12:22amIt probably tastes every bit as good coming up as it does going down.
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 12:07ami thought it would be gold plated roasted babies.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:42pmBloomberg will ban it.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:31pmThat’s not pizza, it’s elitezza!
Report Post »jschold
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:27pmGod bless America. What a great country we live in. That being said, I can only afford Little Ceasears.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:59amI’ll have a garden salad. One half a head of lettuce, one tomato and dressing. A lot cheaper.
Report Post »That is for people with more money than smarts.
65Mustang
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:15pmUgh!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:54pmWhat a waste!
Report Post »I hope it causes some kind of horrendous food poisoning.
Crap and puke all night.
RepubliCorp
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 12:51amWhy? If you like it and have the money…..why not. There are bottles of wine that cost a lot more. Anyways you are more likely to die from walmart Chinese imported food
Report Post »marine249
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:53pmThata somema pizzza
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:38pmMaybe someone should start a “The pizza is to damn high party” and they could get together with “The rent is to damn high party” and have a party.
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:26pmYeah! A Pizza Party at Little Caesars !
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:44amLittle Caesars already had a $40,000 a plate Pizza Party for obama. makes this pizza frugal.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:38pmI am sure the white house will get in on this pizza party, isn’t fish on Mooochell’s list of ok foods.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:07pmWho do you think bought the first one?!?!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:33pmjust gross
you would have to pay me to eat that crap
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:33pmI don’t know what makes it worth $1000 but now I want pizza. Thanks!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:03pmKinda funny, right?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:31pmThe 7 deadly sins in one slice. What a bargain. NOT!!!
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