ELITE SAYS NOMA, NO MORE
Elite Traveler, a magazine targeted towards private jet setting by Net Jets, published its ranking of the top 20 restaurants in the world. The blog Luxuo points out, “The selection provides an interesting contrast to other international rankings like the… World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.” This is best exemplified by René Redzepi’s Noma absence from the list, it has held the top spot for the past two years beating out elBulli on World’s 50 list. Elite’s world’s best restaurant: Alinea. Why?: “hypermodern, emotional approach to dining.” Novel approaches and techniques are praised as Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck gets second place for “pushing the boundaries of British gastronomy” and “reinventing […]
ZERO TO 62MPH IN 3.8 SECONDS
Enter the new Ferrari California convertible updated with a new Handling Speciale package for 2013. It is scheduled to be officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March. And, it is expected to be lighter and even faster than the 2012 California. The blog Luxury Insider notes that the “model will be about 30kg lighter and deliver 490 horsepower and 373 lb-ft. of torque, an increase of 30 HP. The new exhaust manifold and a tweaked ECU means that the automobile’s zero-to-62 mph acceleration time has been cut to just 3.8 seconds.” Expected price tag starts at $192,000.