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Happy New Year Everybody

I have a couple of last minute tips to make the end of 2006 and the arrival of 2007 something special:

For ENTERTAINMENT -- join me as I host the special 10PM Gordie Brown and 10:30PM Lionel Richie shows at The Venetian with a champagne toast and midnight countdown I'll do with both stars starting around about 11.45pm on Sunday night (Dec 31). I'll hop up to TAO right afterwards to join Pamela Anderson and then scoot over to PURE for Britney Spears so Luxe Life will have full reports on January 2. (Maybe even a January 1 posting if I'm not too hungover!!)

For the finest of DINING -- make it the extraordinary incredibly fantastic restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace. The culinary master himself France's celebrated chef-king Guy Savoy will preside over the most expensive meal in Vegas this New Years. It'll start modestly from 5PM onwards with a 1st seating at $600 per person and a 2nd seating at 9pm until whenever the last person leaves next morning at $1000 per person, wines included. And what wines they are!!

I've gotten a sneak peek at the extraordinary menu and my favorites of truffle and caviar turn up in several prime places on the 11-course spectacular:

Pumpkin with White Truffle, Foie Gras Club Sandwich and Crab Claw in Aspic with your welcome champagne
Oysters in Ice Gelee
Colors of Caviar
Grilled Lobster, Root Vegetables, Orange and Star Anis
Mushroom crusted whole roasted Turbot
Lentil Ragout with Black Truffles
Artichoke and Black Truffle Soup, toasted mushroom brioche and black truffle butter
Truffle Stuffed Loin of Veal, winter vegetables with Trufflev Cheese selections
Grapefruit Terrine, tea sauce
All the chocolate delicacies you can eat!

Here are the wine pairings:
Didier Dagueneau Pouilly Fume 2002
Dom Perrignon Champagne, 1996
Chateau haut Brion Blanc, Bordeaux 1999
Batard-Montrachet, Morey-Coffinet 2002
Grands Echezeaux , Domaine Rene Engel 2003
Clos des Forets St. Georges, Domaine de L'Arlot, Nuits Saint Georges 1988
Chateau haut Brion, Bordeaux 1985
Chateau d'Yquem 1991
Domaine de la Coume du Roy,Maury 1977

If you miss this New Year's Eve feast, Guy Savoy still has some magnificent taste treats on the menu for your New Years Day recovery plans:
- Stuffed wild hare leg, celery root and truffle penne, sauteed mushrooms - $125
- Foi Gras, Wild Squab, Red Partridge, Mallard Duck $95
- Roasted Grouse, Spiced Braised Pears, Glazed Chestnuts- $95
- Mallard Duck, dried fruits, black truffle Potato Puree, wild mushrooms- $85
- Poached and Roasted Wild Squab, liver and mushroom risotto $70

Or, if you prefer, just to go for the gold of truffles:

- Alba White Truffle Risotto $140
- Ragout of Winter vegetables, Poached Egg and Alba White Truffles- $125
- Pumpkin Soup, Poached Egg and Alba White Truffles-$105

I guarantee you that once you've feasted at Guy Savoy you will never forget the most extraordinary dining experience in the world- and we have it right here in Vegas!!!

Before I leave you this 2006 I'd like to share with you the thoughts of a dear friend who wrote me earlier today and I'd like to think it has meaning for all of our Luxe Life readers too:

"As we wrap up another adventure-filled year and turn our attentions to all those year-end activities and festivities that can be so all encompassing in many ways, I think it's also important to once again take a moment to remind ourselves that we should be very grateful that we have all been exceedingly fortunate to be a part of a "once-in-a-lifetime" journey and a radical transformation which could not have been accomplished without enormous helpings of good luck, divine providence and, of course, brutal and tireless hard work, extreme knowledge and second to none leadership. A great deal is behind us now and an enormous set of challenges and opportunities lies ahead. We have made it this far together and relatively intact and we should put an appropriate stake in the ground to help measure and remember the distance and the difficulties we have surmounted. I am looking forward to 2007 where we will work together anywhere, anytime. My loyalty to you is unshaken and I will move indeed mountains for you for the rest of my life."

As Winston Churchill said in 1942:

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Honored and privileged to be your friend! Cheers! and a very Happy New Year.

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