Hints and tips:
...The hotel’s location at the lake end of the Bahnhofstrasse is excellent....
...Excellent bar too....
...I admire the refined artisanship, the beauty of the designs and the green glaze that remains in excellent condition....
...The waitstaff are attentive and jocular, and there’s soon a glass of champagne in my hands and some running banter going on with the staff....
...The menu is tilted towards Indian cuisine — with an excellent selection of dals and curries — but all manner of tastes are catered for....
...The seasoning is piquant, and the tostada is testament to the excellent work they’re doing in the kitchen, knocking them out fresh every day....
...Sir George Hollingbery, Britain’s excellent ambassador, calls it “desperately unfair”. He’s spot on....
...The area also boasts some excellent bars and restaurants....
...There is also a host of excellent, more low-key Japanese restaurants, too....
...As Joe Moran wrote in his excellent book Shrinking Violets, why don’t we seek to cure the “insufferably bumptious”? But I also came to believe that shyness is not an identity....
...It boasts some of the city’s grandest hotel rooms, central Copenhagen’s only indoor swimming pool, a Michelin-starred restaurant and attentive service....
...There is Hato, an excellent sushi restaurant that got its first Michelin star last year....
...The staff are friendly and the service is attentive. No wonder people come back to Mugen again and again (me included). 5....
...It’s as if the whole space has been designed to feel like a sort of private retreat; staff are kind and attentive but not overbearing....
...They front a number of campaigns and do some really quite excellent thought leadership and research in this area....
...The Stafford is an excellent hotel, ideal for the traditionalist traveller: comfortable, quiet and well located, with a friendly, attentive staff, hearty breakfast and a big dose of olde London charm....
...The hospitality is sweet, the servers attentive and warm and the food is special....
...Mike struck me as an excellent impresario for the valley and a canny diplomat, not without opinions of his own but attentive to the opinions of others — the old-timers, the Aussteiger, the seekers, the eccentrics...
...Lunch in the airy, glass-fronted restaurant perched on a hillside some way from the hotel, was excellent....
...Despite the dramatic interior and open space, the dining experience was intimate with exceptional attentive service....
...Primarily, it does not cost anything to be polite and attentive....
...The attentive staff box up what’s left. Then it’s back into the ear-popping royal lift — and on to the Tube. We’ve become Londoners again. Daily, noon–4pm, until September 30....
...Long before the genome was unravelled, attentive country people recognised some remarkable properties in plants....
...Belon 41 Elgin Street, Central Good for: excellent food and attentive service Not so good for: expense accounts FYI: Belon’s Daniel Calvert is the youngest head chef in Hong Kong to be awarded a Michelin...
...My colleague Katie Martin, has an excellent primer on the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street spirit among day traders — on Reddit and elsewhere....
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