The Eight Most Romantic Restaurants in America for Valentine’s Day [SLIDESHOW]

This Valentine’s Day, treat your special someone to a candlelit dinner at one of the most romantic restaurants in America. From a wine bar in Los Angeles to a Michelin three-star restaurant in Chicago, your valentine is sure to be smitten by an elegant dinner at one of these tony establishments. Formal attire and early reservations are strongly encouraged.

Jet from Super Bowl 50 to Pebble Beach for the Ultimate Sports Getaway

Northern California will be a nexus for sports next weekend. Not only is San Francisco hosting Super Bowl 50, Pebble Beach (about a 2.5-hour drive south) is hosting the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament the next day. Post Ranch Inn’s Surf and Stay Package allows sports enthusiasts to attend both. After witnessing the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers dance in the gridiron’s greatest gala at Levi’s Stadium on February 7 (tickets not included), travelers can catch one of Surf Air’s semiprivate char…

Rent the Largest Penthouse Suite in America

Opened in October 2015, the Mark Hotel’s grand penthouse is the largest penthouse suite in the United States, clocking in at over 12,000 square feet (including 2,400 square feet of outdoor terrace space). Housed in a historic building from 1927 on New York’s Upper East Side, the two-story penthouse is designed like a private residence but is available for rent at $75,000 per night.

Inside are five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a library lounge, a full-size chef’s kitchen with a custom-made island, and a livi…

Balvenie Launches Five Years of Rare Single Malts to Honor Its Malt Master

The Balvenie begins releasing new chapters of malt master David Stewart’s storied career. 

In one of the warehouses at the Balvenie in Scotland’s Speyside region, the distillery’s malt master, David Stewart, drops a metal bottle into an open cask of 14-year-old whisky and then, once it is filled, retrieves it with the attached metal chain. “Over time, whisky takes on more oak, and this can dominate, but I didn’t want that,” Stewart explains as he pours the whisky into a tasting glass and raises it…

Davidoff Launches Its First-Ever Brazilian Cigars

Davidoff draws from a new source for one of its latest releases, the Escurio.

After leaving Cuba in 1989—when company patriarch Zino Davidoff publicly burned more than 100,000 Cuban cigars that he deemed unfit to sell—the Switzerland-based brand Davidoff was associated only with cigars from the Dominican Republic. Then in 2013 it introduced its first Nicaraguan puros. (The Davidoff Nicaragua Diadema, launched in 2014, was a Robb Report Best of the Best selection last year.) Now the cigar maker has stretched…

The Icon A5 Sport Plane Carves a New Niche in the World of Flying

Icon Aircraft’s amphibious A5 takes pilots and passengers for a joyride. 

It was a typically sunny October morning in the Southern California city of Hermosa Beach when a tiny airplane made a water landing just off the coast. The spectacle—presumed a crash landing by the local authorities—quickly drew emergency crews, ready to rescue the aircraft’s occupants. But upon closer inspection, the pilot and passenger appeared no more in danger than the tourists sunning themselves on the beach. They had climbe…

A Complicated Skull Watch Celebrates Horology and Diá de los Muertos

Fiona Kruger enlivens the Swiss watchmaking scene with her frightfully unconventional concepts.

While attending a ­master’s-degree program in Switzerland, Fiona Kruger, a young Scottish design student, was given her first real exposure to watchmaking—an experience that ultimately steered her budding career in a new direction. “I had never seen people working on such a minute scale or with such precision,” she recalls. “I realized a watch doesn’t have to be round; it can be anything you want to design.”&nbsp…

This Is the Single Largest Hotel Suite in All of Italy

The sprawling new Katara Suite atop the Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, is an oasis from the bustling city of Milan. With more than 10,700 square feet of living space, it is the largest presidential suite in all of Italy. Guests enjoy two private outdoor terraces and sweeping views of the city’s historic Central Station. The biggest attraction, though, in the grand Studio Marco Piva–designed space is the arresting private spa with an enormous hot tub positioned beneath the building’s histori…