You paid how much for a kebab? Melbourne’s luxe restaurant items that will set you back a packet

Would you pay $1500 for a gold-rolled kebab, nearly $30 for a cheeseburger and $50 for a piece of fish and chips? What about $280 for a steak? Some people will.

What cost of living crisis? Big ticket items costing hundreds of dollars a pop are flooding Melbourne restaurant menus.

Here are some eye-wateringly expensive meals to try — if you can afford it.

And if you think it’s just cutting-edge, high-end cooking we’re talking about, think again. Some big bucks items are as simple as a cheeseburger, pizza, soup dumpling and fish and chips, but of course they’re all a little “extra”.

As for Tulum’s $1500 luxe kebab — well that’s literally rolled gold.

Tulum's $1500 rolled gold kebab. Picture: Supplied

This kebab is no ordinary late night snack! Picture: David Caird

$1500 for a kebab at Tulum

Yes you read that correctly. Balaclava’s Turkish restaurant is breaking its own rule of ‘never making a kebab’ for this bougie, one-off creation. Owner and head chef Coskun Uysal takes marbelled wagyu beef (+9 score) that’s been aged for 45 days in a Turkish coffee butter, minces it with aged waygu beef fat and encases it in a gold leaf. It also comes with Beluga caviar, roasted bone marrow, fermented potato cumin flatbread and Victorian black truffles. Don’t worry— all proceeds from this dish will be donated to children’s charity TLC For Kids. Make sure you pre-order this one 48 hours out.

Boeuf wellington at Society. Picture: Supplied.

$325 for boeuf en croute at Society

The French version of beef Wellington, this Society showstopper sees almost half a kilo of beef tenderloin wrapped in puff pastry and served with fine chopped mushrooms, mousseline (white French sauce), prosciutto, thyme crepe, madeira jus. The eye-popping price tag includes all the table side theatrics. But if you spend another $25-$35, that’s the equivalent price of a seven-course degustation at Attica or Vue de monde.

$280 for Blackmore’s full blood wagyu steak at Rockpool

Australia’s Rolls Royce of beef will cost you at one of the city’s best steakhouses. Half a kilo of full blood wagyu rib eye on the bone that’s been dry-aged for two months.

The exxey Entrecote cheeseburger. Picture: Instagram

$28.90 for a cheeseburger at Entrecote

Almost $30 bucks for a cheeseburger? At Prahran’s Parisian palace Entrecote you can tuck into this bad-boy at the bar. Don’t worry, you get a side of fries.

$47 for fish and chips at The Atlantic

A far cry from your corner shop takeaway, Crown Melbourne’s The Atlantic uses the elite Corner Inlet sourced King George Whiting and vinegar salted fat chips for its take on our summer time favourite.

This Flowerdrum seafood dumpling costs $24 for one. Picture: Instagram

$24 for one seafood soup dumpling at Flowerdrum

Spend $24 at some Chinatown restaurants and you’d score a one or two dozen dumplings. Or you could try the mammoth seafood creation at Flowerdrum. Larger than your average wonton, this is packed with mud crab, scallops, prawns, woodear mushroom and bamboo shoots in a chicken broth.

$42 for a Moreton Bay bug pizza at Figlia

Lygon St newcomer Figlia is by the pasta gods who brought us CBD faves Tipo 00 and Osteria Illaria. Now they’re trying their hand at pizzas northside— with this seafood creation teeming with heirloom tomatoes and marjoram costing $42.