Wretched Excess # 6 million

I feel somewhat sorry for the chefs who have to come up with New!  Exciting!  Different! to keep the fat cats waddling in to their restaurant.  That said, I am also horrified by some of the things they come up with to amuse these customers.

Example:  Industry Kitchen (industry-kitchen.com) next door to Wall Street, Manhattan, is offering a $2,000 ($2,000) pizza.  "What the hell could you make a pizza out of that could possibly cost $2,000?" you mutter, perplexed.  I'm gonna tell yas:

12 in crust made from Indian squid ink and a special flour from Italy.  First topping - white Stilton which is then covered with gold flakes (presumably edible) from Ecuador.  Then come slices of foie gras, imported from France along with $300 worth of truffles, also imported from France. As an aside, this is where my doubt crept in - French truffles are usually sold by the kilo and a kilo can cost more than $3,000.  Based on what I've read about truffle prices, that's dirt cheap.  (Deliberate.)

Now comes a slathering of Ossetra caviar detailed with edible gold stripes.  To aid digestion?  There is a glass shaker filled with gold flakes to garnish as you will.

The above is totes cray cray although a review praised the mix of salt (cheese, caviar) and sweet (foie gras) but it's all too rich for my blood. 

Incidentally, if the Two Grand Pizza doesn't appeal, you could order their Pop Candy Land pizza with cream cheese instead of tomato sauce, topped with pop rocks and cotton candy.  No price given.  Gastro's fees, check your insurance.  Or if you prefer a more healthy dish, a 3 ft. long bone-in rib eye with three sauces - truffle or port wine or Gorgonzola with potato curls aka potato chips.

To be fair, I am not in  position to criticize the above as my favorite is pepperoni and pineapple.  Richie,  Brooklyn-born and later Long Island native regards this as apostasy.   He believes we should all eat what God intended us to eat when He invented pizza - tomato sauce and mozzarella aka "a cheese pie."  Hey, pepperoni and pineapple is a hell of a lot cheaper than $2,000.  With a coupon, you can get the Really Big-size Pizza for $15.  Call Valentino's, the best pizza in the South Bay.