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New York restaurant's $200 fries certified as the world's most expensive

New York restaurant Serendipity3 earned its 10th Guinness World Record with a $200 plate of French fries dubbed the world's most expensive. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records
New York restaurant Serendipity3 earned its 10th Guinness World Record with a $200 plate of French fries dubbed the world's most expensive. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records

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July 13 (UPI) -- A New York restaurant broke its tenth Guinness World Record with its latest menu item: a plate of French fries that costs $200.

Guinness announced Serendipity3, a restaurant on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, created the world's most expensive French fries to coincide with Tuesday's National French Fry Day.

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The dish, titled Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites, features ingredients including Chipperbeck potatoes, Dom Perignon Champagne, J. LeBlanc French Champagne Ardenne Vinegar, cage-free goose fat from France, Guerande Truffle Salt, truffle oil, Crete Senesi Pecorino Tartufello cheese, shaved black summer truffles from Italy, truffle butter, organic A2 A2 100% grass fed cream from Jersey Cows, Gruyere Truffled Swiss Raclette and a topping of 23-karat edible gold dust.

A Guinness adjudicator presented eatery officials with an official certificate in a ceremony Monday.

The restaurant, which reopened Friday after a lengthy closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said the $200 menu item is available by reservation.

The restaurant previously landed Guinness World Records for foods including the world's largest wedding cake and most expensive ice cream sundae.

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