Gold Pizza Is Popping Up All Over The Place And It’s Way Too Extra For Us

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Where we come from, pizza is supposed to be cheap. That’s one of the best things about it. You have your dollar slices and then your fancy brick oven pies, but you’d never expect to pay more than $30 for a pizza. But, since we live in a world infatuated with extravagant eats, it’s fitting that chefs would come up with a way to turn even the most casual food into a classy work of art.

And apparently, adding edible gold to anything ups the ante… even though it adds no extra taste or texture whatsoever. It’s purely visual, yet people (cough millennials cough) are willing to spend absurd amounts of dough to eat it up. These pizzas are covered with edible gold, and even though they’re gorgeous, they’re just way to extra for us.

24K Pizza at Industry Kitchen — New York, New York

At New York City’s Industry Kitchen, there’s a pizza that goes for $2,000. The crust is made with squid ink, covered with white stilton cheese, baked in a wood-fired oven and topped with shaved French truffles, rich foie gras, strips of 24-karat gold leaf, gold flakes, dollops of caviar and rose petals. We’re talking $250 a slice here.

Gold Leaf Pizza at Ray’s And Stark Bar — Los Angeles, California

Sometimes, simple is best, right? And by simple, we mean a shimmering white pizza. At Ray’s and Stark Bar in Los Angeles, there’s a white pizza on the secret menu that’s speckled with gold leaf and ricotta.

Gold Pizza at A25 Pizzeria — Melbourne, Australia

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At A25 Pizzeria in Melbourne, Australia, there’s a gold pizza that’s made with a squid ink base, gorgonzola, lobster, Avruga caviar, pomodorini del piennolo (a special grape tomato grown in Campania, Italy) and 24-karat gold. Oh, and it’s garnished with violet flowers because, well, it’s supposed to be bougie AF.