I’d never experienced anything like this before but I loved the sound of combining an evening with an all-new food experience with a heady fusion of irresistible theatrical acts – Madame Zingara sounded like such fun and just up my street!
Founded in 2002 by Richard Griffin, Madame Zingara was a famous restaurant right in the heart of Cape Town renowned purely for it’s gastronomic delights. Over the years it attracted visitors from all around but in 2006 sadly this iconic restaurant was lost to a fire, leaving little more than a burnt out shell.
Over the last few years Madame Zingara reinvented itself as the Theatre of Dreams, which not only offers a unique dining experience but a truly exhilarating theatrical show!
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Bombay Saphire has just announced the launch of their rather flashy G & T glasses, which (as far as we are aware) are the most expensive G & T glasses in the world!
Known as the Couture Glass, these have been designed by Christopher Kane and are available exclusively from Selfridges. But don’t hang around as only five have been made!
They are priced at £2,000 a piece and each glass has been hand cut in blue glass, and features gold studs around the base, so you might not want to pop it in the dishwasher!
To celebrate their 80 year anniversary, Eton have launched their highly exclusive Diamond Shirt. The Swedish brand have woven the shirt from the world’s finest and rarest Egyptian cotton yarn which has been encrusted with diamonds!
Of you get your skates on you’ll be able to see the shirt in Harrods up until the end of December and if you fancy buying it for an estimated £20,000 you can join the silent auction taking place from Wednesday 26th November – Just log onto http://www.etondiamondshirt.com/ to pledge your highest bid. All proceeds will go to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Check out this diamond mounted cooker which has been built to celebrate the diamond anniversary of Denman College – the Women’s Institute-owned Residential Adult Education College. This little beauty is set to be raffled online for charity.
This one-of-a-kind range cooker was specially commissioned by the home appliance brand in association with diamond jewellery specialist Seventy Seven Diamonds, to mark the college’s diamond anniversary.
The proceeds are being donated to Let’s Cook!, a project run by WI volunteers nationally to teach young parents in disadvantaged communities how to cook healthy family meals – it is supported by the UK’s Foods Standards Agency (FSA).
The Stoves cooker has been finished with a specially developed ‘diamond-effect’ sparkling silver paint, but its centrepiece is a spectacular, certified half-carat diamond worth around £1,400, donated by Seventy Seven Diamonds. In total, the oven is worth well over £4,000.
The diamond cooker will be showcased at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham from 26th to 30th November on stand V120.
Posted by Patrick Woolmer on Tue 11th November 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Unusual Luxury
Umm, really not sure about this one. We were tipped off about this site Thessaly Nobility which markets titles of nobility and chivalry.
All a bit of fun I guess and good luck to Thessaly, but does a bought nobility really add anything? I’m not sure… The site claims that a title is an investment that will grow in value. Given the difficult times we’re in and the paltry sums cash receive on deposit, who knows, buying a title might be a way of diversifying your portfolio…..
Thessaly offer exclusive incentives for centurion card holders.
