How do you like your hot dog? Ketchup? Mustard? Relish? Molé sauce? At Serendipity 3 on New York City’s fashionable Upper East Side, they like it expensive! A $69 hot dog if you can believe it! The foot long haute dog is popular, especially with the ladies!
The $69 hot dog, or ‘haute dog’ for you connoisseurs, comes with the works. First, that’s no ordinary white-bread bun, but one made from pretzel dough, salted of course. Generously buttered with white truffle butter I might add. Getting hungry yet, girls?
Let us add a medallion of duck fois gras with black truffles. The dog itself is made from high-grade beef grilled with truffle oil. Other condiments available include black truffle dijon mustard, caramelized vidalia onions and heirloom tomato ketchup. Restaurant owner Stephen Bruce and top chef Joe Calderone have done it again with this food sensation. It has set a new Guinness Worlds record as the world’s most expensive hot dog. The restaurant already holds the title for the world’s most expensive ice cream sundae, a mere $1,000 a dish!
Which may explain why the $69 hot dog is a big winner with the ladies. If you are chump enough to buy one for the woman in your life, then she knows she can have whatever she wants. The restaurant rolled this delight out yesterday to celebrate National Hot Dog Day.
July 24th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Bonus +1 for not using this picture.
July 24th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Heck, I’d give him +5 if he HAD used it.
July 24th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Sorry, ‘Me’, but as Shannon knows, we can only use photos that we are allowed to. I spent considerable time looking for a good one. I did pass up another of some model from Victoria Secrets in a tiny bikini holding a hot dog. That was my alternate choice! If you click on the Gallery link on the photo, you’ll see what I’m talking about!
July 24th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
As a professional chef, and I dont mean some glorified fry cook ! I’m talking 3 years of training at one of the countrys best institutions, worked some of the best houses from Tavern on The Green, Maitre`D at Fraunces Tavern to The Pacific club…
Truffles are over-rated and taste like the bark off a fcking tree.
I have a funny feeling that theres no way even a Kobe dog with all above mentioned accoutrements and condiments could cost that much without some serious overhead thats lingering under the table like an intern in a Clinton oval office.
I always keep a jar of Poupon next to the bed in case my wife ever feels like flying to NY
July 24th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I can’t imagine how one of these dogs could be 15 times better than a double downtown from Rush St in Chicago…Unless the woman in Me’s picture is serving them.
July 26th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Makes sense that anyone stupid enough to pay $69 for a hot dog would also put ketchup on it
July 26th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Perhaps, but the ketchup itself is custom made from heirloom tomatoes. I bet 24 oz bottle would cost $50.
July 26th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Kerry uses Heinz on his dog…
I’m pretty sure
July 26th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Jim2903 must be from Chicago where it’s almost considered a crime to put ketchup on a hot dog. I left there almost 15 years ago and still won’t do it.