New York’s Serendipity3 sets Guinness World Record for most expensive fries – NBC New York

If you’re a foodie with a little spare change, an iconic restaurant may have what you need to celebrate #NationalFrenchFryDay.

Serendipity3, the iconic Upper East Side restaurant, set a Guinness World Records title for making the “most expensive fries” – just in time to celebrate National Fry Day on Tuesday!

Serendipity3’s Creative Director and Chef Joe Calderone and Company Executive Chef Frederick Schoen-Kiewert are the brains behind the “Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites”, which costs $ 200.

Serendipity3

These exclusive fries are made from Chipperbeck potatoes blanched with Dom Perignon champagne and J. LeBlanc French Champagne Ardennes vinegar. The fries are then cooked three times with pure goose fat from geese raised free in the South-West of France.

The process of creating these raised fries doesn’t end there. The fries are then seasoned with Guérande truffle salt which is harvested by hand in Guérande, France, and then the fries are mixed with Urbani summer truffle oil. They are garnished with Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello shavings made from sheep’s milk that graze on the clay-rich hills of Crete Senesi, followed by black truffles from the valleys and forests of Volterra and Miniato, Italy. The fries are also topped with shavings of black summer truffles from Umbria, Italy.

The “Crème de la Crème Pommes Frites” are served with an accompaniment of Mornay sauce based on Crème de Pis, Black Truffle Butter, Swiss Raclete and Gruyère Truffle.

The presentation is also quite spectacular as the fries are served on a Baccarat crystal Arabesque plate and bowl – and are dusted with edible 23K gold powder!