Restaurant in New York has broken 10 world records for unique dishes: what does it serve

A New York City restaurant broke the world record with a chic $ 200 French fries. Serendipity3 - the world famous Upper East Side restaurant - has broken the tenth Guinness World Record, this time for the most expensive French fries in the world. The details of his records were told by the publication New York Post.

The award-winning French fries were unveiled in time for National French Fries Day on July 13th. His serving costs $ 200, the dish is called Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites.

“I am speechless, stunned and agitated. This is one of the most surreal experiences in my life, ”said 41-year-old chef Frederic Schoen-Kievert.

“After opening (the restaurant was closed during the pandemic and reopened on July 9), we wanted to make as much noise as possible,” added 59-year-old creative director Joe Calerdon. "We thought this was the perfect time to really have fun and really prove that the old New York is back."

After Shen-Kievert cooked these expensive French fries, the Guinness World Records Committee organized a ceremony in which the restaurant was awarded another world record, already the tenth.

“Today I am delighted to present you with the Guinness World Record for Most Expensive French Fries,” said committee judge Caitlin Vesper. "Congratulations, you are now officially gorgeous!"

Serendipity3 works with high-end product suppliers. According to Shen-Kievert, luxury ingredients were used to create the world's most expensive French fries, which the restaurant has access to thanks to its suppliers.

“We do have the opportunity to apply some ingredients that we don't use every day,” explained Shen-Kievert. “So our fries have truffles, truffle oil, top quality cream, and also morne sauce, a cheese sauce that we have raised to the highest level.”

The Chef's Secret

The recipe includes a triple-cook Cheaperback potato grown in upstate New York. The potatoes are first blanched in Dom Perignon champagne and Ardennes vinegar for J. LeBlanc French champagne. This is done to reduce the starch content for crispier potatoes. After chilling, the fries are cooked in pure goose fat from geese raised in southwestern France and not kept in cages. It is fried in fat twice, first at 160 ° C and then at 190,5 ° C.

After the fries are cooked, they are seasoned with Guérande truffle salt, the world famous coarse sea salt hand-picked from Guérande, France (costs about $ 17 an ounce - 28 grams). The potatoes are then poured with Urbani truffle oil and topped with Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello shavings, made from milk from sheep grazing in the clay-rich hills of Crete Senesi, and black truffle shavings from Volterra and Miniato (Italy). Sprinkle on top with shavings of black summer truffles from Umbria (Italy).

The French fries are served with a Morne sauce made with cream from Jersey cows lumped with A2 grass, black truffle oil and 24,99-month Swiss truffle raclette ($ 450 / lb - 23 g). The fries and sauce are served on a Baccarat Arabesque-patterned crystal plate coated with 150-carat edible gold dust that costs $ XNUMX per gram.

Serendipity3 received its first Guinness record in 1998 for the largest wedding cake in the world. A traditional English fruit cake, 3 meters high and weighing 907 kg, was baked on Valentine's Day, at which time every public cafeteria and homeless shelter received a slice of this dessert.

$ 1000 Ice Cream & Royal Visitors

In addition to the most expensive potatoes, the restaurant also serves $ 1000 ice cream.

“For our $ 1000 ice cream, a Saudi prince came to us and bought it for his table, maybe a Saudi prince will come to us again and want fries,” the establishment said.

In the near future, the restaurant will begin accepting orders for $ 200 French fries.