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Goya Restaurant at the Hotel Ritz,
Madrid El Bulli
Prêt-à-Portea in The Caramel Room at The Berkley 
Twice a year the pastry
chef’s work with editors from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar
magazine to make cakes, slices, and biscuits that are tailor
made to look like the seasons hottest fashions.
Currently you will find Jimmy Choo boots a delicious Alexander McQueen Stuart tartan chocolate cake and a divine Yves Saint Laurent frilly passion fruit meringue all served up to you on designer plates of course.
Tea is served from 2pm to 6pm daily
and Moët is also available in chilled Baccarat flutes if that
is more your style. Look out for Gisele or Naomi. The waiting
list around this time is one month. The photo shows creations
from the 2006 Autumn/Winter Collection which is a Valentino
leopard chestnut crème handbag and Aquascutum yellow coat
ginger biscuit, YUM!
The world’s most expensive teabag you ask?
Well that would be a hand
crafted tea bag made by exclusive UK jeweller Boodles which is
studded with diamonds that are over 700 karats. The string is
hand crafted from white gold. There are 280 diamonds all up
with 100 inside the teabag with the tea. So you are brewing
diamonds as you brew your tea. The price tag you ask? Well
that would be US$14,000 of course.
England
The Ivy
This is quite possibly the most
famous and most glamorous restaurant in London. The name came
from the line of a popular song from the 20’s, “We will cling
together like the ivy”. Reviews for this restaurant have been
outstanding with the menu consisting of Modern
British-European cuisine. You are almost always guaranteed to
be seated near a celebrity. As the Zagat Guide for 2006 said
there are “more stars (here) than in heaven”.
Nobu
This is a very trendy Japanese style
restaurant and also the most popular of all the Nobu
restaurants around the world. It has a Michelin star and was
also voted London’s Most Popular Restaurant in the Zagat
Survey.
David Beckham flew in the top chefs from
this restaurant to his mansion in Madrid to cook an 11 course
meal that cost US$480 per person for his wife Victoria
Beckhams’ 32nd birthday. This restaurant is also co-owned by
revered American actor Robert De
Niro.
Spain
El Bulli
This
restaurant was voted the Best Restaurant in the World and The
Best Restaurant in Europe for 2006 by Restaurant Magazine.
They get 1 million reservation requests a year with only 8000
people actually succeeding in getting a table.
The head chef and owner Ferran Adria is considered more of a “gastronomic innovator” who likes to experiment with food and thinks of his kitchen as more of a laboratory where he can invent new dishes.
Goya Restaurant at the Hotel Ritz, Madrid
Goya serves Mediterranean and Spanish cuisine in incredibly lavish yet elegant surroundings. David and Victoria Beckham once paid US$10,000 to reserve this restaurant so they could eat alone. Make your booking request HERE.
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