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The Boucheron / La Maison du Chocolat chocolate snake - £600,000!

Posted by Tom Wilkins on Thu 3rd July 2008 at 02:36 AM, Filed in Expensive Art, Expensive Jewelry, Fine Dining, Luxury Food

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To mark the 150th anniversary of Boucheron, La Maison Du Chocolat were recently called in to recreate the unique style of a Boucheron snake necklace… but in chocolate!

The chocolate version is truly a work of art directed by the Creative Director of Chocolate at La Maison du Chocolat. It’s not all chocolate though… it has a The 20.08 carat tinted yellow diamond for a tongue.

We were recently invited to go and see the necklace in its full glory (and try a few chocolates of course) at the London flag ship store. Heavily guarded, the necklace is on a tour around the globe which includes locations such as Japan, Russia, India, America as well as a few other exclusive locations.

It’s for sale too… at £600,000! We were advised by the Commercial Director of Boucheron that there has been some interest in the piece, but it recently endured a slight problem in Japan when all the flashes from the Japanese paparazzi started melting the snake!

Would you wear it? Ermmmm… nope and I probably wouldn’t eat it either (although it’s gonna be delicious). No doubt it will make a nice valentines gift for a billionaire!

Whilst we are on the subject of food, after being fed chocolates from the new Maison du Chocolat range and having a presentation from the Creative Director himself, we decided to go and try out a Nando’s flagship restaurant in Covent Garden as we’d heard it was pretty swoofy. We love a good Nando’s and had heard that this restaurant was well worth experiencing… we needed no more excuses!

It’s a fantastic venue (ground floor) with a very relaxed atmosphere and some fantastic tribal deco. Oh… and they had one of those new Dyson hand dryers which are just incredible (I’m getting old aren’t I!) If you are in or around Covent Garden then drop by, well worth a look… and a cocktail or two!