Everyone likes a blowout meal for a special occasion but some places are way above the price range of your average diner. From the underwater restaurant Ithaa in the Maldives to Guy Savoy’s lavish restaurant in Caesar’s Palace, here are some of the most expensive restaurants in the world.

This two-Michelin-starred restaurant is located within the glamorous Hôtel Meurice in Paris, with rooms inspired by the Salon de la Paix at the Palace of Versailles. Dishes are created with renowned chef Alain Ducasse, famed for his technical skills and traditional French haute cuisine. A meal will set you back pretty substantially – the chef’s table menu is priced at £400 ($549).

Owned by Heston Blumenthal, The Fat Duck in Berkshire, England, has been open since 1995. This three-Michelin-starred venue originally served French bistro-style dishes but these days it’s better known for experimental cooking. For those who want to book a table, there's a long waiting list and guests must pay up to £325 ($448) per person in advance. The current menu 'Journey’ is a ‘nostalgic trip full of playful memories' based on Heston’s childhood.

No two meals are the same at this tiny Los Angeles restaurant, which offers delicate sushi and Japanese dishes. With no set menu, chef Hiroyuki Urasawa and his team create and serve 29 courses, which change every day, to around 10 diners at a time. Popular with celebrities including Tom Cruise, this exclusive dining experience will set you back around £869 ($1200).

Anne-Sophie Pic has been awarded three Michelin stars for her eponymous restaurant in Valence, France, and in 2011 she was crowned the World’s Best Female Chef at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards. It’s not surprising that demand is high for this luxurious restaurant. The inventive nine-course menu, including dishes like langoustine marinated in honey and veal with chestnut, will cost you £285 ($390).

A relatively new restaurant, Ultraviolet in Shanghai was launched by French chef Paul Pairet in 2012. This ultra-modern venue is billed as a multi-sensory experience where guests are surrounded by visual projections, fragrances and music as they eat. The restaurant serves one sitting of the 20-course menu per night in its dining room with just 10 seats. Dinner will set you back £450 ($621).

With an average price of £1,458 ($2,000) per person, Ibiza's Sublimotion was named the most expensive restaurant in the world in 2015. Light installations are projected directly onto the table and diners are also offered virtual reality headwear. The tasting menu, which includes an incredible 20 courses, is designed by two-Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero and takes three hours to complete.

Set across six rooms adorned with contemporary decorations, Restaurant Guy Savoy in Paris offers a 12-course ‘Colours, Textures and Flavours’ set menu for £352 ($486). Guests can dine on caviar with smoked sabayon, aged duck with sweet spices and sea urchin.

With three Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse’s London outpost is situated inside the luxurious five-star Dorchester Hotel. The seven-course black truffle menu, designed by executive chef Jean-Philippe Blondet, is a seasonal highlight. The menu includes dishes like scallop with chicory and lobster with cauliflower, and costs a pricey £280 ($385). Guests can also add shavings of black truffle to any of the à la carte menu options.

Masa is owned by chef Masayoshi Takayama and offers a lavish two-hour banquet with 25–30 courses, priced at £430 ($595) per person. The menu includes fish which is flown in daily from Japan. Situated on the fourth floor of the Time Warner Center in New York City, the décor is deliberately simple to ensure the food is the main focus of the experience.

Ithaa in the Maldives is situated 5 metres (16 feet) below sea level and the world’s first all-glass undersea restaurant, providing a panoramic dining experience like no other. Offering contemporary European cuisine, the set menu, which costs £230 ($320), includes reef lobster-stuffed calamarata pasta, sous-vide veal tenderloin and Bolivian cru sauvage chocolate and kaffir lime pannacotta.

In the heart of California’s Napa Valley, The French Laundry is run by American chef, restaurateur and food writer Thomas Keller. Diners can choose between two daily tasting options – the 12-course chef’s tasting menu and a nine-course vegetarian meal. Both cost £225 ($310). Standout dishes include Island Creek oysters with caviar and the Montana rainbow trout with crispy oyster crackers.

Per Se in New York is also owned by Thomas Keller and offers the same food philosophy – two tasting menus, where no single ingredient is ever repeated, ensuring guests are always surprised with new textures and flavours. A meal at the three-Michelin-starred restaurant costs a cool £245 ($340).

The food at Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare in New York is inspired by Japanese cuisine and French cooking techniques. On the menu, you'll find foie gras, oysters, caviar, wagyu beef and fish imported from Tokyo's famous Tsukiji market. The two-and-a-half hour tasting experience is priced at £285 ($394). It was the first restaurant in New York outside Manhattan to receive three Michelin stars.

Also known as Paul Bocuse Restaurant, this temple of traditional, old-school French cuisine in Lyon, France, has held three Michelin stars since 1965. Star dishes include black truffle soup, sea bass in puff pastry and chicken stuffed with truffles, cooked in a pork bladder. Set menus cost up to £240 ($330) and à la carte main dishes can set you back up to £80 ($110). Sadly, Bocuse died in January of this year and tributes were paid across the world.

Located atop Rome’s Waldorf Astoria, this Italian-Mediterranean restaurant offers incredible views of Italy's ancient capital. The only restaurant in the city to have earned three Michelin stars, it offers a 10-course gourmet menu that will cost you £218 ($300) and includes red mullet with celery and caper sauce, venison with crisp liquorice on polenta and a fine selection of cheeses and wines.

Surrounded by the Swiss Alps, Schloss Schauenstein in Fürstenau, Switzerland, is set within an 18th-century fairytale castle. Run by Andreas Caminada, the youngest chef in Europe to hold three Michelin stars, the restaurant is famed for its delicate and artistic presentation, like the pigeon apple truffles (pictured). The six-course dinner is priced £200 ($275). It's currently closed for refurbishment to mark its 15th anniversary and will reopen in June 2018.

Designed to look like a train carriage and seating just 12 diners at a time, The Krug Room is located inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. The team of chefs are visible through a large window and three tasting menus are on offer, the most luxurious of which is 'The Krug Experience Package' priced £331 ($457) per guest. It includes shrimp, scallops, venison and of course, plenty of Krug champagne.

Another Alain Ducasse restaurant, the Plaza Athénée is located in a hotel of the same name in Paris. Stand-out dishes include Brittany langoustines and golden caviar, and Gascogne Bay turbot with beetroot kefir sauce. The five-course garden menu with three dishes, cheeses and dessert is priced at £346 ($475).

Restaurant Gordon Ramsey is the chef's flagship venue, located in Chelsea, a wealthy borough in London. Offering a range of modern French cuisine, the seven-course Prestige Menu for two costs £155 ($214) per person. The venue holds three Michelin stars.

French chef Joël Robuchon's flagship restaurant is located inside the famous MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. This intimate and exclusive venue has just 12 tables and offers a set menu at £320 ($445). Dishes include flan of sea urchin on potato purée topped with Arabica coffee foam, and salmon with caviar and gold leaf (pictured).

French chef Alain Passard's restaurant L'Arpège in Paris is famed for its vegetable-heavy menu, using produce grown in his organic gardens. The 12-course ‘Terre & Mer’ (ground and sea) tasting menu costs £374 ($516) per person. Dishes include lobster with parsley, coriander (cilantro) and winter radish petals (pictured).

Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, Switzerland, promises a fine-dining experience ‘where luxury, magic and wellness come together’. Alongside three-Michelin-starred dishes like Somme Bay scallops cooked with orange tarocco (pictured), diners can enjoy four themed dining areas and a cigar lounge. The set tasting menu is £300 ($415).

Opened in 2005, Alinea in Chicago boasts three Michelin stars. The creative menu includes this stunning squid with spicy butter, black garlic and flower petals. Their most expensive package, The Alinea Kitchen Table, costs £280 ($385) – the private experience caters for just six people at a time.

Founded and owned by executive chef Joshua Skenes and wine director Mark Bright, Saison in San Francisco holds three Michelin stars. The kitchen tailors each diner's experience to their preferences but you can expect dishes like caviar with egg custard and flaky biscuits or barbecued quail with radishes. Multi-course menus are priced at £215 ($298) and you can bring you own wine for a £72 ($100) corkage fee.

The highest restaurant in Thailand’s capital Bangkok, Mezzaluna is located on the 65th floor of the Tower Club at lebua and offers incredible 180-degree views of the city. The two-Michelin-starred restaurant serves a seasonal European tasting menu which changes daily and costs £135 ($190). Recent dishes include scallop with turnip, horseradish ice cream, bottarga and smoked haddock powder (pictured).

Views don’t get much more stunning than this. Michel Bras TOYA Japan is located in Hokkaido, in the northern part of the country overlooking the stunning Toya Lake. Opened by French chef Michel Bras, the restaurant serves dishes from his native country, made with local produce. These include his famous molten chocolate dessert, coulant au chocolat. Dinner will set you back £185 ($255).

With incredible views of Sydney Harbour, The Quay is one of Australia’s most luxurious restaurants. It’s led by executive chef Peter Gilmore who has created a modern menu offering a new take on old favourites. The eight-course tasting menu with wine, fairly priced compared to others on this list, is £110 ($152). Dishes include slow-cooked quail with fermented mushroom custard, walnuts, brioche porridge and seed crackling.

The Araki in London is the perfect place to watch sushi masters at work, as every seat is positioned at the chef’s table. It was opened by chef Mitsuhiro Araki who closed his three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Tokyo four years ago to focus on this new venture. The sushi-only tasting menu, which includes caviar and truffles, is priced at £300 ($416).

The decadent dishes on offer at French chef Guy Savoy’s Las Vegas restaurant include seared foie gras and artichoke and black truffle soup. Located in Caesar's Palace, this grand venue recently opened its own Caviar Room where diners can sample a caviar tasting menu. It'll set you back £120 ($170) but it's a fraction of the price of the most expensive set menu which costs £280 ($385).