Willy Wonka Eat Your Heart Out: Find A Diamond In Your Valentine’s Day Dessert At Beauty & Essex

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If you want to feel like you’ve discovered Willy Wonka’s golden ticket this Valentine’s Day, head to one of Beauty & Essex‘s three national locations—Los Angeles, Las Vegas or New York—to discover a diamond in your dessert (if you’re the lucky in love winner, that is).

It’s pricey, but isn’t love worth it? The $1,000 Beauty & Essex Valentine’s Day dessert includes a tray of espresso macchiato served with sugar jewels in a heart-shaped locket and a chocolate sphere incasing a round, brilliant cut, .10 carat white diamond from the Beauty & Essex Pawn Shop; a jewelry box filled with glitter-dusted doughnuts, served with caramel, chocolate and berry dipping sauces; a jewelry box of chocolate hearts with various fillings; and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rose Champagne.

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For those unfamiliar Beauty & Essex is an ultra glam hot spot, that, while retaining similar sensibilities in each city, have their own city-specific flavor. Whether it be on the Lower East Side of New York, adjacent to Hollywood’s Dream Hotel or on the Las Vegas Strip inside the super-trendy Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino, the TAO-owned restaurants all feature a secret entranceway—a well-­curated modern day pawn shop replete with a saxophone, a boom­box, quirky artifacts, vintage treasures and an eclectic array of “one-­off” pieces of jewelry; several distinctive dining rooms; resplendent chandeliers; a women’s bathroom complete with a salon including a luxurious sofa, and antique perfume bottles; and now, in Hollywood, even social media stations. The cuisine consists of small, inventive shared plates like grilled cheese and tomato soup dumplings; tomato tartare; and tuna poke wonton tacos.