Elite Traveler March-April 2016

DISCOVER

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Food&drink

We love… Black Ivory Coffee

One of the most exclusive (and expensive) coffee beans we’ve seen – it passes through rescued Northern Thai elephants' alimentary canals before it reaches the cup… $614 per lb blackivorycoffee.com

TAKE THREE/// TIME FOR TEA

HAMPTON ANTIQUES Tea Caddy Dating from around 1790, this tea caddy is veneered in ivory and tortoiseshell, edged in green-stained ivory with a gold escutcheon and swing handle on the lid. $50,000 hamptonantiques.co.uk MARC NEWSON Sterling silver tea service The handles of this silver tea set, designed by Marc Newson for Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen, are made from responsibly sourced fossilized mammoth tusks. Only 10will be made to order. $125,000 georgjensen.com This 21 piece Limoges porcelain tea service is based on an original design commissioned in 1756 by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France. S igned and numbered by the artist; edition of 75. $7,000 artspace.com

London's hot new openings Spring. It’s the season of new life, new beginnings – and, it seems, new restaurant openings in London. The hottest and perhaps most anticipated is 50 Days by Albert Adrià, a pop-up offering at The Domino Room at Hotel Café Royal, led by the eponymous chef. Given that it runs until April 9, there’s still just about time to check it out. If you haven’t the inclination to beg, barter or elbow your way to the top of the waiting list for a table, head instead to Jason Atherton’s Japanese restaurant, Sosharu, that opened in Clerkenwell on March 7. Or visit Eneko Atxa’s Basque restaurant, Eneko at One Aldwych, which opens in Covent Garden this summer. Later this year look out for Damien Hirst’s reopening of his ill-fated restaurant, Pharmacy, this time in Vauxhall, alongside his new art space Newport Street Gallery, rather than its original Notting Hill setting. Our most anticipated opening is chef Shaun Rankin’s restaurant at the Flemings Hotel in Mayfair. It's just had a $20m refurbishment, so we’re expecting great things.

CINDY SHERMAN Madame de Pompadour tea service

Albert Adriá's (middle) Hotel Café Royal (top) pop-up. Damien Hirst's reopened Pharmacy (bottom)

Words: Laura Powell. Photos: Black Ivory Coffee Co Ltd