Tony Brander designed a burger unlike anything seen before.
The bun of Finland’s most expensive Burger is gilded with 23 carat gold leaf. A few grams of caviar comes to the table on a separate spoon. Caviar should be eaten separately, for example with champagne. Samuel Ashcroft Photography
Lobster half, caviar, gold leaf, Wagyu meat. The most expensive hamburger in Finland is made from these ingredients.
The burger, which costs 59 euros, is on sale at the Burgers and Wine restaurant in Helsinki’s Pasila shopping center. Hamburger designed restaurateur Tony Brander swim upstream when everyone else is talking about savings and affordability.
– A 23k lobster burger is actually cheap compared to what its ingredients cost, Brander states.
He laughs that they have been accused of being crazy before, because the Burgers and Wine restaurant is a fine dining place that serves hamburgers.
– However, people are ready to pay for a high-quality hamburger. The price of the 5th best-selling hamburger in our restaurant is 29 euros. It has duck liver and truffle.
Brander wants to change the image of the hamburger as just cheap fast food.
He originally set out to make a surf and turf style burger.
– Then it got a little out of hand, Brander laughs.
On the other hand, Brander asks why not.
He knows that an almost 60-euro ökyburger arouses so much irritation and enthusiasm. It will be on the restaurant’s menu until the end of this year.
The hamburger designed for the Christmas season will remain in the menu if there is demand.
Since the lobster must be fresh, and the restaurant does not want to waste, it is recommended for larger groups to pre-order.
Brander does not know of another equally expensive hamburger in Finland.
– If there is one, we add gold to our burger.