World's Most Expensive Restaurant Dish

You take a standard dish offering -- an omelette, a bagel, a martini, a burger -- and add some combination of: black truffles, foie gras, gold leaf, caviar, a diamond, etc. Add some zeros to the price, blast out a press release for the new menu item, and your fledging establish is mentioned in papers and TV news broadcasts across the country and maybe the world, and online mentions abound. It doesn't ever need to be ordered, of course.

Here are 10 of the most ridiculously restaurant dish gimmicks of the last few years.

$1.4 Million Strawberries

The 90+ year old Arnaud restaurant in New Orleans' French Quarter sounds quaint enough. That's until you've heard about their Strawberries Arnaud, which ring in at a whopping $1.4 million. The pedestrian bowl of berries comes garnished with a 4.7-carat pink (because it's strawberries, duh) diamond ring, and is served by waiters wearing white gloves who pour $30,000 liquor.

$10,000 "Martini On The Rock"

It's just a single very special rock: a diamond. NYC's Algonquin hotel offers a $10,000 martini that comes with its own pre-selected diamond in the glass.

$5,000 Burger

Chef Hubert Keller at the Fleur de Lys restaurant at Mandalay Bay whips up the pricey burgers, which are pure Kobe beef flavored with foie gras and black truffles, served on a truffle bun, and garnished with Keller's special truffle sauce.

$1,000 Sundae Landing Serendipity on this for the second time, the Golden Opulence sundae rings in at a staggering $1,000. The sundae is a base of Thaitian vanilla ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla beans and piece of Chuao chocolate from Venezuela that gets topped with an edible gold leaf, then drizzeled with Amedei Porcelana chocolate and candied fruit, gold covered almonds, chocolate truffles and marzipan cherries

$1,000 Omelette

Norma's in NYC's Le Parker Meridien Hotel serves their omelette with fresh Maine lobster and 10 oz. of caviar.

$1,000 Brownie

Brule, a restaurant located in Atlantic City's Tropicana Resort serves what they call the "Brownie Extraordinaire,". The dish, offered with a $15,000 Valentine's Day package is a dark chocolate brownie topped with hazelnuts, but that's not why it's so pricey. The brownie comes alongside a St. Louis crystal "atomizer," a perfume bottle-like contraption

$1,000 Bagel

Back in 2007, New York's Westin Hotel created the world's most expensive bagel, topped with white truffle cream cheese, goji berry infused Riesling jelly, and, of course, gold leaf.

$515 Sidecar Cocktail

It starts with extremely rare 1865 Ritz Reserve cognac, made from grapes that were on the vine before the devastating phylloxera infestation of the 1860s. Only a few bottles remain.

$500 Hot Pot

At his Vegas spot, Takayama charges a steep $500. The luxe hot pots come in custom-molded pots, heated on induction burners set into the tables; and feature ingredients such as wild bluefin tuna belly wrapped around julienned Japanese leeks, taraba crab legs from Hokkaido, sliced abalone, winter yellowtail and beef from the Ohmi region of Japan.

$69 Hot Dog

The beef dog is grilled in white truffle oil and then served in pretzel bread, before getting topped with foie gras, black truffles, caramelized onions, heirloom tomato ketchup, and dijon mustard with black truffles.