--- title: Austrian Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World description: At $114,000 a kilo, this dish is not for everyone canonical: https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-19T13:08:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:59.837Z og:title: Austrian Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World og:description: At $114,000 a kilo, this dish is not for everyone og:url: https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Austrian Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World twitter:description: At $114,000 a kilo, this dish is not for everyone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Feb 19, 2015 1:08 PM UTC  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Feb 19, 2015 1:08 PM UTC A fish farmer in Austria is offering a caviar dish that he says is worth $114,000 per kilo. The white caviar “Strottarga Bianco” concoction includes rare albino sturgeon dried roe sprinkled with gold leaf, [according to the website](http://www.gruell-salzburg.at/de/caviar%5Fund%5Fkaviar/trottarga%5Fund%5Fstrottarga.php) for Walter Gruell’s fish farm. The dish is only available on customer order. “It is certainly not a product for everyone, but there is definitely a market for extremely exclusive products especially when they are something new,” said Gruell’s son Patrick, who helped develop the caviar, according to Yahoo News. According to the [Guinness World Records](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-caviar/), the most expensive food on record is also a caviar: Almas, from the Iranian Beluga fish, sells for roughly $35,000 per kilogram. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/"},"headline":"This Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World","datePublished":"2015-02-19T13:08:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:59.837Z","description":"At $114,000 a kilo, this dish is not for everyone","url":"https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Food","Wealth","Austria"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3714706/austrian-caviar/","name":"This Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World"}}]}] ```