$1000 pizza in NYC

by Nicole Weston, Posted Mar 15th 2007 @ 10:35AM

Sick of the usual pizza toppings? The next time you are in New York, consider treating yourself to something that is more luxurious than the average pie. The restaurant Nino's Bellissima, in Manhattan, has put a $1,000 pizza on the menu. The 12-inch pizza is topped with creme fraiche, chives, eight ounces of four different kinds of Petrossian caviar, four ounces of thinly sliced Maine lobster tail, salmon roe, and a little bit of wasabi to complement all the fish. The thin-crust pizza is cut into eight, $125 slices for serving.

You can't just walk in off the street a pick up one of these specialty pies on your way home from work, though. The restaurant needs 24-hour advance notice to make one.

And who is the target audience, besides pizza lovers looking for an unusual experience? Owner Nino Selimaj (pictured, right) says "Definitely Wall Street guys will treat their girlfriends... and their wives, perhaps."

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3-15-2007 @4:23PM Foodie Bride said... Wow... and I thought screwing up a pizza was hard to do.
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3-15-2007 @7:39PM Dan Tannenbaum said... How badly can you screw up pizza? Apparently VERY badly? What happened the great food that keeps millions of geeks running, whether hot or cold? Planin, neopolitan cheese pizza. This seems like a really gross way to make people part with their money. The only thing I've seen worse, was pasta served with Campbell's Tomatoe soup as a sauce. Without adding milk or water. Yeeech!
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3-15-2007 @8:11PM calamari said... This pizza is just silly. Why pay top dollar for lobster and caviar, then drown out the subtleties of the flavors with wasabi?

We need to keep our types of culinary machismo straight here. You can be Diamond Jim Brady and pile on the lobster and caviar OR you can go for sushi and eat the ones that look like insects OR you can order pizza piled high with salami diavolo and pepperoncini. But you do not combine these three things, because they are three different things.
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3-15-2007 @10:30PM lisa said... At $125 a slice, I think it's going to be the girlfriend OR the wife, definitely not both.
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3-18-2007 @4:01PM otacon144 said... #3: I didn't think anyone else still living remembered Diamond Jim Brady, though it'd have to be a DAMN big pizza to satisfy HIM.

Maine Lobster is always awesome, same with wasabi, but putting them together with caviar? Salmon Roe? A 1,000-dollar hole in my wallet?

Pass.
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