A LONDON restaurant is selling hamburgers made of New Zealand beef for $134 each.
The burgers, made from meat from cattle of the Japanese wagyu breed, come with fries, and are being sold at the Zuma restaurant in fashionable Knightsbridge.
A restaurant spokeswoman said: "Our wagyu beef comes from New Zealand, where the cows are reared on beer and massaged until they weigh three-quarters of a tonne, more than double the weight of an average cow."
Zuma owner Rainer Becker said he introduced the burger after a request from actor Pierce Brosnan, who ordered wagyu beef while the two dined in Japan.
The burgers work out at $9 a bite, or $559/kg for the beef.
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