World’s first caviar vending machine opens in US
BURBANK, California, Nov 25 — Need a caviar fix at 2 am? Billed as a world first, a caviar vending machine has opened in California for the deep-pocketed who prefer to indulge their snack cravings with caviar and blinis rather than candy bars and chips.
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Beverly Hills Caviar has set up the luxury snack food vending machine at the Burbank Town Centre Mall, which also dispenses all the accoutrements one needs for a gold-gilded, midnight snack.
Think caviar, truffles, escargot, blinis, bottarga (fish egg sacks), oils, Mother of Pearl plates and spoons, gift boxes and gourmet salts.
Beverly Hills is also home to another innovative, automated food delivery system. Earlier this year, a 24-hour ATM machine that dispenses cupcakes sent foodies on a sugar high.
For US$4 (RM12), customers can choose between flavours such as red velvet, chocolate, vanilla, chocolate marshmallow, and Irish chocolate.
It’s been a big week for caviar. Celebrity chef Eric Ripert, of what’s been described as the best seafood restaurant in New York, Le Bernardin, also launched his own line of luxury caviar.
An 8-oz tin of Eric Ripert Imperial Select Caviar is yours for US$1,050. — AFP/Relaxnews