The Soffer Family just bought back fifty percent of The Fontainebleau from Dubai’s Nakheel Properties. The government-owned company is the very same responsible for the over-the-top Palm Islands, World Islands and more in the Emirate city. Cash-rich, they came in and bought half the shares from Soffer at a time when the $650 million renovation […]

Indian fare is getting a tad bit easier to find in Miami than it used to be, but we’d still like more, please. Here is a list of our favorite places to get the classics from naan to tandoori chicken. Our advice? Go with friends and get one of everything!

Now that’s the kind of present you won’t find under the tree! Earlier this month luxury watchmaker Hublot treated their clients to a special event with the Miami Heat. The Hublot Collector’s Clinic gave clients the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hit centre court at the American Airlines Arena, where they did shooting, passing and defense drills […]

Alba’s chef Ralph Pagano, who we recently featured in Haute Living’s Kitchen Confidential section, is opening a Mexican restaurant at the Dream South Beach. Serafina, will be closing and the conversion will be complete by the end of next month. Pagano is famous for his show, Pressure Cook, on the Travel Channel where he visited […]

Art Miami is always one of my favorite shows during Miami Art Week and this year was no exception. A tour of the fair, which includes a wing for CONTEXT reveals many, many gems that were aching to come home with me. Sure there was the sparkling CIndy installation and the Maserati VIP lounge, but the […]

Hublot and its CEO, Ricardo Guadalupe, hosted a two-part Art of Fusion event that began with a reception at Hublot’s Bal Harbour boutique. The store was transformed by artist Hebru Brantley’s artwork, whose pieces pair well with their colorful new Caviar Tutti Fruitti watches. Alonzo Mourning and Haute Living publishers Kamal Hotchandani and Seth Semilof also […]

At a Hublot event for Art Basel this weekend, billionaire Stewart Rahr purchased two Hebru Brantley paintings at an auction raising money for Alonzo Mourning’s Mourning Family Foundation. The total for the two paintings was $150,000, with one painting being $70,000 and the other $80,000. “The Mourning Family Foundation depends on people like Stewart Rahr […]

Miami has so many great hotel lobbies, it’s a chore to pick just five. But here goes – the best of the bunch are as follows:

  Hublot cerebrated the launch of their new Big Bang Caviar Lady 305 timepiece with a private dinner hosted by Hublot’s Rick de la Croix and Haute Living Magazine at Zuma. The evening, which saw Shannon Allen, Janice Combs, Cliff Floyd, Larsa Pippen, Jenine Howard, Addrianne Bosh and Gabrielle Union in attendance, doubled as a […]