Wicked Good Fun

GLUTTONY

GORGING ON THE LARGEST PORTIONS
5-pound hamburger At Eagle’s Deli, 5 pounds of meat, 20 slices of cheese, and 20 strips of bacon make for one whopping burger, called the Chillerama. No wonder the Travel Channel named this Boston College institution in Cleveland Circle one of the world’s best places to pig out. ($50, 1918 Beacon St., Brighton, 617-731-3232)

20-scoop ice cream sundae The Ben & Jerry’s VerMonster consists of 20 scoops of ice cream, four bananas, three chocolate-chip cookies, one fudge brownie, four ladles of hot fudge, 18 scoops of toppings, and lots of whipped cream. And it all has to be consumed in one sitting, since the feeding trough it comes in won’t fit into your freezer. ($32, 174 Newbury St., Boston, 617-536-5456, and other locations; www.benandjerrys.com)

48-ounce steak If you can finish a 72-ounce steak, a tossed salad, a shrimp cocktail, a buttered roll, and a baked potato in an hour at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, your meal is free. Morton’s has no such offer for its 48-ounce porterhouse, which is really just as well: It’s meant to be savored at your leisure. ($84, 699 Boylston St., Boston, 617-266-5858)

2½ pounds of barbecued meat Redbones’s BBQ Belt, a.k.a. the “Wall of Meat,” is an overflowing plate of Memphis pork ribs, Arkansas pork ribs, and Texas beef ribs, plus beef brisket, beans, coleslaw, and hearty cornbread. ($16.99, 55 Chester St., Somerville, 617-628-2200)

11-inch slice of pizza New York Pizza’s 22-inch pies are cut into just six slices, making each as big as three slices from the typical pizzeria. And at $2.25 a pop, they’re the best gut-busting deal in town. (224 Tremont St., Boston, 617-482-3459)

Mile-High Nachos Coolidge Corner Clubhouse’s Mile-High Nachos could feed half the residents of Denver. It’s a plate of corn tortilla chips layered with a pound and a half of cheddar and Monterey jack cheese, topped with guacamole, jalapeños, sour cream, chili, and salsa. Olé! ($11.95, 307 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-566-4948)

48-ounce beer You’ve got to love a beer glass so big it comes with a stand. Sunset Grill & Tap’s yard of brew can be any of the 112 beers on tap. ($17.95 and up, 130 Brighton Ave., Allston, 617-254-1331)

CONSUMING THE MOST CALORIES
890-calorie lobster casserole Loaded with chunks of meat, the lobster casserole at Legal Sea Foods is a hefty heap buried under a handful of buttery crumbs with your choice of cream cheese or sherry cream sauce. Even with a side of steamed broccoli, it’s not exactly health food. ($32.95, 26 Park Place, Boston, 617-426-4444)

704-calorie white-chocolate challah bread pudding Each batch of this decadent dessert at Figs contains seven egg yolks, 3 cups of cream, and 10 ounces of white chocolate. Dense challah bread is soaked in the batter, baked, and then dusted with powdered sugar. ($6.95, 67 Main St., Charlestown, 617-742-3447; 92 Central St., Wellesley, 781-237-5788)

476-calorie frisée aux lardoons Eastern Standard tops a tart, bitter base of frisée greens with a poached egg. Fried sweetbreads, bacon lardoons, and oil-sheened hazelnuts make each bite rich, salty, and utterly, delectably unsalad-like. ($11, 528 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, 617-532-9100)

2,300-calorie stuffed double-baked potato The twice-baked potato at Fleming’s is filled with 1½ ounces of pancetta and 2 ounces of smoked cheddar cheese—not to mention mashed potatoes, cream, and butter. ($7.50, 217 Stuart St., Boston, 617-292-0808)

810-calorie Train Wreck Fries Imagine a plate of French fries instead of nachos, smothered in Monterey jack cheese, chunks of bacon, sliced jalapeños, and globs of sour cream. The handcut skinny fries are barely wide enough to hold the toppings, but somehow the plate always comes up clean. ($7, Ashmont Grill, 555 Talbot Ave., Dorchester, 617-825-4300)

ORDERING THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING ON THE MENU
$120 Egg McMuffin The Metropolitan Club has reinvented the classic American breakfast fix by topping a homemade English muffin with two perfectly poached eggs, melted Manchego cheese, Serrano ham, and a generous spoonful of hollandaise ($10 so far). Add aromatic truffles ($20) and/or a half ounce of osetra caviar (market price about $90) and you have a true breakfast of kings. (1210 Boylston St. [Rte. 9], Chestnut Hill, 617-731-0600)

$110 surf ’n’ turf Oak Room chef Jeremy Langemann pairs the tail of a 2-pound lobster with a 10-ounce Kobe beef steak from Idaho’s revered Snake River Farms. A cross between the Japanese Wagyu breed and the American Black Angus, Kobe beef is both intensely flavored and supremely tender. (Fairmont Copley Hotel, 138 St. James Ave., Boston, 617-267-5300)

$35–$45 appetizer (market price) Piballes, or baby glass eels, arrive live in an oxygenated bag. Then they’re sautéed in Spanish olive oil, sliced garlic, and a pinch of Espelette pepper, and tossed with red surf clams, lemon juice, and chives. The result: an exotic dish that tastes remarkably like ultrafresh linguini with clam sauce. (Clio at the Eliot Hotel, 370 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, 617-536-7200)

$645 glass of scotch This vintage bottling is one of only 348 ever produced. Matured in oak and later in sherry wood, Macallan 1951 scotch has the aroma of green apple and lemon with a hint of peat, and goes down like velvet. (The Federalist, 15 Beacon St., Boston, 617-670-2515)

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