Saturday, July 3, 2010


Fortress Serves World’s Most Expensive Dessert for $14,500


If you are blessed with sweet tongue to match your foodie spirit, then The Fortress Hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka would be your next sure-spot destination.

This Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence demands a bulky but justifiable sum of $14,500. Featuring a gold leaf Italian cassata relished with Irish cream and mango, the other ingredients of the dessert include Dom Perignon champagne, gold and silver leaf.

Following an age-old practice of the fishermen, the dessert is dished up with a concoction leaning against fishermen’s Valrhona chocolate sculpture carved out of an 80-carat aquamarine stone costing $14,000.

So, guys with a small bargain of $500, you can end up giving a feast to your eyes by grabbing empty sculpture but yes a total down payment of $14,500 can really make your day with a chocolate pudding overflowing out of this sculpture. The dessert eyes only the elite and exclusive clientele of the hotel.

Reuters states that the GM of the hotel has received two enquiries from Japan and the management is hopeful to ink one-or-two deals during this year. But the workers of Sri Lanka are not amazed with such an asset as BBC quotes a Colombo-based development worker saying Sri Lanka is still battling with the bents of life and death, making efforts to come out of the aftermath of 2004 tsunami. In such a difficult situation, this kind of promo won’t help.



World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream — Golden Opulence Sundae


If you count yourself among a foodie and wish to burn some money then rush now to Serendipity, a restaurant based in New York. Having carved its position in Guinness Book of World Records, the Grand Opulence Sundae offered here demands $1000. The very tag of world’s most expensive ice cream is gaining customers for the restaurant, if not more at least one customer every month for the Grand Sundae. The ice cream was produced to commemorate Serendipity’s Golden Jubilee.

This exotic dessert is immersed with striking candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries and is crowned with a minuscule schooner bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, a special one. The sundae is doled out in a baccarat Harcourt gemstone goblet with an 18K gold spoon to participate in the luxury served with a diminutive mother of treasure spoon and with toppings of a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel. It is available only after placing an order almost 48 hours in advance.

Ingredients:
5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean
23K edible gold leaf
Amedei Porceleana (world’s most expensive chocolate)
Rare Chuao chocolate


Hotels under the sea or on the sky

The Hydropolis Undersea Resort-work in progress.. Designed by Joachim Hauser, this 10-star underwater hotel– the Hydropolis Undersea Resort is a $500-million project. Positioned in Dubai, the 60% base of the hotel is surrounded by water. Around 1.1-million-square-foot of area is equipped by a shopping mall, ballroom, island villas, restaurant, high-tech cinema, a missile-defense system for your safety in 60-feet underwater and 220 theme suites. Soon expected.






The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has veteran volatile development in current years, up-and-coming as the region’s cultural and financial capital. It is simple to wear out superlatives when recitation Burj Al Arab, a hotel that has previously become an international attraction.

Burj Al Arab is the only 7 star hotel in the world, situated in Dubai. The stunning Burj Al Arab seems as sail shape, its flies to a height of 321 meters, leading the Dubai coastline. Also has become as greatly a peak of allusion in Dubai as the Eiffel Tower is in Paris.
Burj Al Arab Hotel has 202 luxurious suites; bars and lounges; eight restaurants, heli-pad; indoor and outdoor swimming pool; Health Club; private beach; internet access. One more thing about this luxury hotel, it is the most expensive hotel you have ever seen i.e., you will have to pay 770 Euro for the most modest room and 7700 Euro for royal apartments.

A blending of dissimilar cultures, where the traditions of Arabic warmth merge with the very most up-to-date technology to gives a new Middle East tombstone. Burj Al Arab has a status between comfort and service.

The Al Arab was built in the shape of an Arabian dhow, with two winds spread in a V. The opulent hotel was built on a man-made island and designed so that every suite has a breathtaking view of the gulf. Imported Italian marble, gold flake, and spun silver adorn the interior of the world’s only seven-star hotel.

If you can manage to stay at the Burj…you have way, way, way more money than I do. The “Tour of the Arabs” cost an astounding $28,000 a night. Amazing what a little oil money can build.