The world's most expensive restaurant

What's the recipe for dining at one of the world's most expensive restaurants? Months on a waiting list and Herculean wallet strength. Oh, and a healthy appetite. Top-notch restaurants have never been this good.

"I think that for a lot of reasons, we have been going through a world revolution in the improvement of our food at every level," says Tim Zagat, creator and publisher, with his wife Nina, of the New York-based restaurant-rating guide Zagat Survey. "The audience for dining is increasingly sophisticated--someone from Dubuque knows what food in New York, London and Paris restaurants is supposed to look like. Finally, the people doing the cooking have become respected and in some cases celebrities."

The result is that there are now more places than ever before to eat- and spend-lavishly.

Read more of Forbes' list of "The World's Most Expensive Resturants."


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