US$500,000 luxury meal in space created by chef of 2-Michelin-star restaurant has people flying to sign up

Luxury space travel company SpaceVIP has hired Rasmus Munk of Denmark’s Alchemist to create a gourmet menu for six guests on a six-hour space balloon trip

SpaceVIP founder Roman Chiporukha says the company has already had ‘dozens of qualified participants express tremendous interest in this experience’

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SpaceVIP will take guests 30 kilometres above sea level in a space balloon to dine on a luxury meal created by Danish chef Rasmus Munk while watching the sun rise over the earth’s curvature - at the cost of US$500,000. Photo: SpaceVIP

Published: 6:15pm, 18 Mar 2024

Deep-pocketed food and space lovers will soon be able to enjoy gourmet dining in the stratosphere. At least if they are willing to pay almost US$500,000 a ticket.

Less than 24 hours after the trip was announced, many people have already asked where they can sign up.

SpaceVIP, a luxury space travel company, has hired a Danish chef from a two-Michelin-star restaurant for the six-hour, hi-tech space balloon trip, which is set to debut in 2025.

Rasmus Munk will create the menu for the six guests who will be taken 100,000 feet (30 kilometres) above sea level. They will dine watching the sun rise over the earth’s curvature, with Wi-fi on board allowing them to live-stream to friends at home.

Chef Rasmus Munk of Denmark’s Alchemist with his team at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony in Valencia, Spain, on June 20, 2023. Photo: Alchemist

The menu is yet to be finalised but the 32-year-old chef said he wants the dishes to be innovative like the journey itself, with aerogel-inspired food and encapsulated aroma among the ideas.

Munk is chef at Denmark’s Alchemist, which was ranked fifth in The World’s Best 50 Restaurants guide for 2023. The avant-garde restaurant is known for its lengthy tasting menu consisting of 50 “impressions” that also involves performance, interaction and immersive audiovisuals.