Sketch (London)
176 dollars
Head-cook Pierre Ganie and Algerian victualler Masus have together created Sketch, one of the most impressing places in London. The new French cuisine of the restaurant which Ganie has borrowed from his Parisian restaurant - three-star Michelin - has complimentary responses. The restaurant features a faultless service, own DJ and even a rotating exhibition of arts.
Petermann` s Kunststuben (Zurich)
151 dollar
The menu from six dishes (without wine) at restaurant Petermann` s Kunststuben in Zurich includes zucchini with rock lobsters, small scallops, mushroom soup and pumpkin dish. The dessert is changed every week, but the pie ‘Napoleon with pineapples’ enjoys constant popularity. Head-cook Rico Dzandonella has won the glory of the culinary specialist in Europe due to the French cuisine.
Tetsuya` s Restaurant (Sydney)
135 dollars
To get into Tetsuya` s Restaurant clients should wait for more than a month. And the Franch-Japanese menu including ten dishes, costs rather dear. The menu varies frequently and it is impossible to be confident, that will be there. But there are some classical dishes, which are served very often: tuna and a fried ocean trout.
Vitrum (Berlin)
118 dollars
The decor of restaurant Vitrum with its columns from a black marble and chandeliers from Murano glass, reminds the Venetian country house. The menu is basically Italian, and head-cook Thomas Kellerman does not hide his predilection for fish.
The specified sums are for a lunch for one person, including one soft drink and the tip, or the fixed price for a lunch.
Aragawa (Tokyo)
277 dollars
Restaurant Aragawa receives its well-known beef from the only farm nearby, and it really melts in a mouth. The restaurant is recognized as the best place in Tokyo where you can taste meat which, by the way, is served only with pepper and mustard. All other seasonings are considered as blasphemy.
Arpege (Paris)
211 dollars
The head-cook and the owner of the extra-expensive Parisian restaurant Arpege Alain Passard has transformed cooking of vegetables into an art. In spite of the constant clients’ complaining of the high prices, visitors can regret, if go by the restaurant. The menu with prevailing vegetables will be to everyone’s taste, who does not stint in banknotes and calories.
Eigensinn Farm (Toronto)
213 dollars
Legendary private farm Eigensinn Farm is located in two hours’ journey to the north from Toronto. Everything, which is served up at the restaurant, is raised, slaughtered and cooked directly there. The menu from eight dishes costs 213 dollars for one person, without wine. The restaurant’s location is not convenient, however it is one of the most unusual institutions of public catering in Northern America, and it is worth the money.
Business magazine Forbes has made the list of the most expensive restaurants in the world.
As it is known, sales of restaurants all over the world make 1,5-2 billion dollars per year. The United States accounts for 500 billion from this sum. That is hundred billions dollars are spent at magnificent restaurants somewhere in China, Japan, India, Europe, the Near East and Africa.
The magazine has decided to find out, where are the best and most expensive of these restaurants. For this purpose it has chosen at first 25 cities outside the United States, and then with the help of Zagat Survey service it has determined the most expensive restaurant in each of them. If the price level at restaurants was identical, the magazine chose the restaurant with more exclusive food.
In cities where Zagat Survey is not represented, in particular in Moscow, Forbes has taken into account recommendations given to visitors by local five-star hotels.
Representatives of Guinness Book of Records had not time to register the famous New York dessert for 25 thousand dollars as the most expensive in the world, as sanitary inspection experts have found out, that all sanitary norms are broken in the cafe.
The New York restaurant offering dessert Frozen Haute Chokolade for record $25 thousands, has been forced to be closed temporarily because of mice and insects. According to city’s Department of public health, the institution located in Manhattan, could not pass sanitary inspection. The report of inspectors says about mice, flies and cockroaches.
The most expensive cake has appeared in the menu of a restaurant not so long ago. Head-cook Stephen Bruce needed a lot of time to create it. “Only development of a spoon has taken three months”.
Gold spoon, decorated with white and brown diamonds, is a precious accessory to the precious dessert. Ice-cream contains 5,7 g of edible 23-carat gold, and it served in the glass with a sheet of gold, also edible. The basis of a glass is decorated with a bracelet from 18-carat gold with inserts from white diamonds. The dessert is decorated with whipped cream, and “watered†with edible gold and chocolate from Kripschildt Chocolatier (2600 dollars for 500 g of such chocolate).
It was supposed, that when all culinary components of a dessert have been eaten, the rest jewelry can be taken away together with a spoon.
The most expensive streets in the world are the Fifth Avenue in New York, Kosuej Bay in Hong Kong and Les Champs-Elysees in Paris.
According to the consulting agency Cushman&Wakefield, the square meter of a trading area in these streets is to tenants the most expensive. The square meter on the Fifth Avenue costs 17,5 thousand dollars per one year.
The main Moscow street - Tverskaja - has also entered this list, though with more modest prices - 3250 dollars per meter.
New Year’s collection from Chopard.
Swiss company Chopard has presented the new collection with its main leitmotif a snowflake. Necklace Snowflake presented the last year, is a skilful assembly of seven gentle, white gold, rhombuses, enchased with brilliants and sapphires. It reminds a star pattern from snowflakes.
Now, continuing a theme of air lightness and magic magnificence, Chopard represents the fine, skillfully created pendant from snowflakes and stars on a chain, bestrewn with the same small flakes. Masterfully combined and put in gentle designs, white brilliants in a frame from white gold create constellation from snowflakes. The price - €85650.
It seemed that there cannot be more mad invention, than cosmetics for dogs.
But, we were mistaken. Company Innobitz has presented the new model of a MP3-player for dogs, named JooZoo. The player is intended to spunk them up. Under the statement of developers, listening of a player stimulates physical activity and improves dogs’ and cats’ blood circulation.
But the given model not only positively influences health, but also decorates your pet. For greater show designers have generously decorated a player with gold and brilliants.
The complete set includes stylishly made remote control and charger.
An estimated cost of a player is about $2000. The owner should only hope that the dog can appreciate quality of a sound and jewels, and will not have a desire to gnaw it.
On November, 7 in London hotel The Dorchester has taken place the reception on the occasion of the limited edition of The Macallan whisky in unique hand-made decanter Lalique.
Represented this year within the framework of The Macallan in Lalique collection decanter «Natural Colour» symbolizes natural color of one-malt whisky The Macallan and is the second stage of cooperation of legendary brands. By the way, the first sample of the collection - «Exceptional Oak Casks», has been made in 2005. Its initial cost was 6 thousand dollars. In total there were 470 bottles of The Macallan in Lalique «Exceptional Oak Casks».
Creating decanter «Natural Colour» authors have used the classical design from Lalique - “Tiara”. 25 persons worked above the creation of each crystal decanter The Macallan in Lalique «Natural Colour», and about 50 % of made decanters were defective because of the microscopic cracks which have appeared after burning in the furnace.
This year, 420 created decanters will be filled with 55-years age The Macallan Sherry Oak, aging in tunes from sherry since 1949. Initial cost of a decanter will make 12 thousand dollars. Whisky has turned out dark, with notes of sweet exotic dried fruits and the wood shades passing in aromas of spices and an orange dried peel.
01.00 pm - Turin: J12 Superleggera
The modest, safe city in the north of Italy, which is known due to football club “Juventus” and, certainly, by studios and workshops in which the smartest racing European cars are created.
03.00 pm - Moscow: J12 Tourbillon Haute Joaillerie
Lately this city has become noted for the life, which gives impression of a constant holiday.
03.00 pm - Kilimanjaro: J12 Ceramique
Kilimanjaro Mount is a crown of the African Tanzania. Towering just above the flat plains, covered with cap of snow, frequently closed by clouds, it became a classical symbol of white purity, a youth of the world. White – the color of cleanliness and innocence, lucidity of mind, it is deceptive simple color, which actually includes all colors of the spectrum.
09.00 pm - Tokyo: Mademoiselle Perles
Though ornaments from pearls were already been known in ancient Babylon and Egypt, the native land of this surprising “pearl†is considers Japan. Well-known traveler Marko Polo had been struck not only with an abundance of pearls on this island, but with their beauty and cleanliness.
04.00 am - Los Angeles: J12 Beverly Hills
Well-known district Beverly Hills throws many into confusion. Someone finds it too ornate and rough, reminding that California for many centuries was rather remote province of the Spanish kingdom. Others experience true Stendhal syndrome, being in an environment of numerous boutiques of Rodeo-drive and Hollywood film-empire.
Travels allow us to look on surprising nooks of the planet and to feel their breath through the prism of time. This autumn Chanel, inspired with the finest cities of the world, has created watch J12 GMT specially for travelers. But every city has its own features, and Chanel watches also differ from each other. So, let’s start a travel trough Chanel time zones!
07.00 am - New York: Chocolat
The symbol of the XX century, capital of constructivism, city of direct lines - New York. Blocks of buildings, straight avenues, crossing straight streets, skyscrapers. Everything there is located “at the corner”.
12.00 pm - London: Camelia
Many once British features, and tennis and football as well, have already ended to be perceived as the phenomenon only English. But there is one compulsory for London high life event - an annual exhibition of flowers in Chelsea, which have taken place every spring for 85 years.
01.00 pm - Paris: Premiere
Original Chanel travel begins from this city, as in 1910 young Chanel opened in Paris her first shop Chanel Modes. The great mademoiselle most of all other places loved Paris.
