Your Next Big Purchase: A New Car or Dessert?

Manhattan's Serendipity 3 restaurant recently set a new Guinness world record for most expensive dessert with its Frrrozen Haute Chocolate--a slushy mix of cocoas from 14 countries, 5 grams of 24-carat gold, whipped cream, and shavings from a luxury truffle. Served in a goblet decorated with 1 carat of diamonds and with a golden spoon (which you get to keep), the decadent dessert will set you back $25,000.

In other recent Serendipity 3 news, the restaurant was forced to close last week due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches. The health department notes this is the second time the restaurant has failed a health inspection, and that health officials found a live mouse, mouse droppings, flies, and dozens of live cockroaches on the premises.

So a restaurant starts serving $25,000 desserts adorned with gold and diamonds and suddenly they're getting orders to temporarily shut down? Why do I get the feeling a heist is in the near future?

--AndreaLeigh

Comments

[DaveH on November 21, 2007 at 10:31 PM]

Unnnhhhh... Check out this story before going there to dine:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11162007/news/regionalnews/serendipity_creamed_by_vermin_618019.htm

I had written about it here:

http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/individual/2007/11/the_1000_sundae_a_second_look.html

[Wicked Good Dinner on November 24, 2007 at 06:42 PM]

Wow, as much as I WANT that dessert, I'll have to take the new car, Monty.

[Cranberry Achilles on March 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM]

This is the first time i heard that we could eat gold xD this world is surely unexpectable.