The West Village Italian-American eatery De Santos has recently become the first restaurant in New York to run their business on iPad 2 tablets. The days of scribbled notepads and yelling to the kitchen are over. The new system allows servers to take orders, get them to the kitchen via wireless signal, and check out customers.

Wolfgang Puck, the famous multimillionaire chef is due to open his first restaurant in Europe on September 1st. CUT, at 45 Park Lane, London, the eatery also located at the Beverly Wilshire at the Hotel Bel-Air, will introduce Puck’s cuisine to London instead of New York or Miami.

Where did ex-Marine Steven Wallace and founder of brokerage firm Pacific Brokerage Services decide to rest his head once the day was done? A 27,816 square foot monstrosity in Holmby Hills with three elevators, a two-story library, and three family rooms, all fit for a God. The deities were literally ingrained in this one, for the mansion even has its own nightclub, named Atlantis.

D&H Sustainable Jewelers in San Francisco, Calif. is adding a new luxury to their space. After negotiating with neighbors and Planning and the likes the locale is ready to open the much anticipated wine bar on the small mezzanine.

Financier Leon D. Black celebrated his 60th birthday with the ultimate blowout bash at his oceanfront estate in Southampton last Saturday night. At the multimillion-dollar party guests enjoyed a buffet dinner of seared foie gras, crab cakes and steaks and enjoyed a performance by Sir Elton John himself.

Resembling something straight out of Nicole Kidman’s haunted mansion thriller, The Others, the £140 million extravagant Park Place estate, near Henley-on-Thames at Oxfordshire, has been purchased by a Russian oligarch. Its connection to the early 2000’s horror flick lies in the female apparition that is said to have haunted the property. Classified as the priciest home in the UK, the manor is considered the most fruitful in the country’s real estate to date.

Hip-hop has taken a breath of fresh air with the recent release of Watch The Throne, a collaboration album from moguls Jay-Z and Kanye West. Jay took to Miami for the LP’s celebration, where he spent over $300,000 for the Sunday night festivities, held at the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach.

Let’s go for a ride in the Lambo! Doesn’t that sounds like fun, even Batman jumped on the bandwagon driving a Lamborghini. The super ultra high-end brand, which was created and founded by none other than, Ferruccio Lamborghini totally designed these cars for the type of driver that wanted to feel their heart pump right out of their chest.

Some might say that the economy has picked up for the best, but for others—that might not be the same story, especially in the world of luxurious travel and tourism industries. The Ritz Carlton in northern California (Lake Tahoe) is suffering tremendously, due to the effects of the recession that took place in America during the late 2000’s. The Ritz—recently went into foreclosure, proving that places like Lake Tahoe aren’t doing enough business as predicted.