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Step inside the $600-a-head California restaurant where steaks are covered with gold

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Updated Hiroshi is an unusual restaurant for an unusual clientele. Located in Los Altos, California, the newly-opened Japanese restaurant accommodates only eight people per night and has no menus, no windows, and one table. Dinner costs at minimum $395 a head, but averages between $500 and $600 including beverages and tax. Chef-owner Hiroshi Kimura left his last restaurant in Hawaii and moved to Silicon Valley in 2016 to launch a concept that would appeal to the deep-pocketed tech elite. Read More...

Tiffany pilloried for 'everyday objects' collection that includes $1,000 tin can | US news

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US news This article is more than 6 years oldTiffany pilloried for 'everyday objects' collection that includes $1,000 tin canThis article is more than 6 years oldLuxury jewellery brand mocked over line of exorbitantly priced products Luxury jewellery brand Tiffany & Co has been mocked online over its exorbitantly priced new home collection, titled Everyday Objects, which includes a $1,000 sterling silver tin can. Chanel's $2,000 boomerang criticised for 'humiliating' Indigenous Australian cultureRead moreThe collection, which the jeweller claims “transforms utilitarian items into handcrafted works of art”, boasts items such as a $9,000 sterling silver ball of yarn, a $425 walnut and silver protractor, a $1,500 set of walnut and silver “building blocks” – which look very similar to Lego – and a $300 yo-yo. Read More...