I am going to let all of you in on a little secret. You ready? Ok here goes, when you pull up to Prohibition Wine Bar first take notice of their storefront retail store, which resembles a warehouse, and offers you an array of different and unusual wine accessories and gifts. After you finish snooping around locate the old telephone booth, step inside, go through the secret door and get ready to enjoy some of the best wine, wine cocktails, and bootleg-style beers wine country has to offer.

The Raphael House will be celebrating their 2010 Benefit gala on April 17, 2010. This year the gala will take on a 1920s approach to celebrating with a “speakeasy” themed soiree. Festivities begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. with a cocktail and champagne reception at the legendary Bimbo 365 club in North Beach neighborhood.

Looks like JP Morgan Chase’s CEO has finally laid out his plan for a successor. In a letter Jaime Dimon has announced that he will be “shuffling” the order of his top execs so that in the event he does decide to leave the bank then the company will be prepared. According to the New York Post, those that should expect to see a change in their job title are CFO Michael Cavanagh; Charlie Scharf, CEO of the retail-services unit, and Samuel Maclin, CEO of commercial banking.

Haute Living has a plethora of editorial content from our four regional editions that may be passing under your radar, and we don’t want that. We have so many gems hidden in our archives, so in addition to daily Haute 100 Updates, we will now be providing “Haute Highlights,” focusing on one article from a print edition that is worthy of your attention.
For today’s highlights, we’ll be revisiting Sin City herself and retracing Haute Living Editor Christina Bohnstengel’s steps to living the good life when you find yourself, “waking up in Vegas,” as Katy Perry puts it.

There’s only one thing we love more than fine wine, and that’s designer shoes. On April 15, we’ll see our two favorites come together in San Francisco, for what is sure to be a fabulous event of shopping, giving, and socializing. Saks Fifth Avenue and Vivanista Inc. are collaborating with the “Shoemelliers” from the fundraising event series Wine Women & Shoes, all in the name of fab footwear.

The bar to luxury on the high seas has officially been raised. The last time there was a yacht of this caliber, it was felled by an infamous iceberg. The product of brilliant engineers committed to the luxury and competency that the Bertram name connotes, the new 800 exudes extreme power and unattainable ability.

In recent years a group of talented and daring chefs have flipped the culinary landscape of the city of Angels. How so? Well first off, the fine dining experience that was usually associated with snooty French restaurants and restaurant-goers with discriminating tastes is no more. Today, the fine dining experience isn’t so much about keeping up appearances, it is more of a culinary journey where diners are welcomed in to a relaxed environment and chefs are encouraged to push the envelope with their creativity without the hesitating remarks like, “what is that?”

A struggling economy takes no prisoners and not even the legendary Drake Hotel is immune to financial woes, so once again, this San Francisco landmark is back on the market. Chartres Lodging and a Dubai based investment firm had purchased the hotel back in 2005, for a total of $65 million from Kimpton. In the five years that the hotel was in their possession, the Drake has undergone a total of $204,000 per room renovations.

Mark your calendars for the month of May, because on the 7th, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in L.A., Nancy Davis, a multiple sclerosis survivor and advocate will be holding the 17th annual Race to Erase MS to raise money for multiple sclerosis. Since 1993, Davis has raised more than $30 million for the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis and its Center Without Walls program, which was founded by Davis herself.