This Golden Thanksgiving Dinner is $181,000

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GFN – NEW YORK: New York’s Old Homestead Steakhouse has again claimed the title for the world’s most expensive Thanksgiving dinner, unveiling a $181,000 holiday package that pairs gold-dusted turkeys with a weeklong luxury yacht cruise and a slate of add-ons ranging from a Black Friday shopping spree to Super Bowl tickets. The offering is roughly 3,700 times the cost of a typical American Thanksgiving meal, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The Midtown restaurant, known for its annual ultra-luxury holiday promotion, raised the price from last year’s $150,000 version after selling out all three packages. As first reported by Yahoo News, co-owner Marc Sherry said the team begins by designing the menu and “from there we seek out the most expensive ingredients in the world.” This year’s centerpiece remains two free-range turkeys painted, dusted, and flaked with gold at $145 per pound. The spread includes $1,200-per-pound Spanish bacon, $300-per-pound U.K. white cheddar, whipped potatoes built with $850-per-pound Pule cheese, and a gravy infused with a $3,650 bottle of Louis XIII cognac. The cranberry sauce incorporates $250-per-dozen Japanese strawberries with a reduction made from a 40-year Taylor Fladgate port.

Old Homestead co-owner Marc Sherry explains to Yahoo Finance anchor Zack Guzman that the Thanksgiving dinner, which has set records for the last five years, is about more than just opulence.

Twelve loaves of imported bread begin the Old Homestead stuffing, which also boasts Alaskan king crab, Maine lobster, Otoro tuna, and golden caviar from the Caspian Sea that costs more than $1,600 per ounce.

A new seafood stuffing nods to early American holiday meals, starting with $125-per-loaf champagne-based U.K. bread and layered with Alaskan king crab, Maine lobster, Otoro tuna, and golden Caspian Sea caviar priced above $1,600 an ounce. “I’m not sure that the Pilgrims had $1,600-an-ounce caviar back in the day, but for $181,000 we are giving it to you,” Sherry said. The 12-person feast also features white asparagus seasoned with $91-per-ounce Korean salt, imported black truffles topping $1,000 per ounce, and pairings that include Opus One, Silver Oak, Cristal, and Dom Perignon.

The Old Homestead $181,000 Thanksgiving dinner boasts two gold-painted and gold-dusted free-range turkeys that cost $145 per pound.

The extras extend beyond the $50,000 SeaDream Yacht Club cruise to include a $20,000 Black Friday shopping spree, four Super Bowl LIV tickets with first-class airfare and a stay at The Setai in Miami Beach, a $5,500 chauffeured tour of New York in a Bentley Bentayga, his-and-her iPhone 11 Pro Max devices, and a separate Wagyu dinner for four.

For Sherry, who developed the concept with his brother Greg, the annual challenge is pushing the experience to new extremes. The restaurant launched the promotion in 2014 at $35,000 and has added new elements each year, including a 2-carat engagement ring hidden in the stuffing of one turkey and, last year, keys to a Maserati Levante baked inside the gold-covered bird. “I get so much out of preparing and creating with my staff this type of dish. By the time Thanksgiving gets here I’m so happy, I’m so relaxed, I’m glad to sit down with family and enjoy myself,” he said.

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