Hints and tips:
...Our number-one place is an amazing Mexican restaurant in Sonoma city called El Molino Central, where we’ll eat on picnic tables....
...It has great brands like Studio D’Artisan and Big John, and denims up to 24oz: you can stand the jeans up on their legs. take5jeans.com....
...Backpackers’ hostels, Pizza Huts and Kentucky Fried Chickens had replaced the tailors and tea shops....
...a rare treat in a city long obsessed with sushi and pizza....
...Tropea is set on a cliff that drops to the sea and sandy white beaches. For lunch, we found simply cooked fresh fish at a restaurant hidden down a narrow, quiet street....
...And, in early December, the newly christened “restaurant row”, a 25-block stretch of Rockaway Beach Boulevard, hosted its very first Rockaway Restaurant Day....
...Contract technicalities can make a big difference to BI claims, so expect there to be disputes and much uncertainty over the level of business interruption losses from Sandy....
...The lack of electricity causes daily inconveniences, especially on summer days that make Iraq feel like a huge pizza oven....
...And it is spectacular: broad, sandy and endless....
...Arguably, the big daddy of them all is cookbook author and TV personality Sam Leong. I meet Leong at My Humble House, a stunning restaurant near the Esplanade complex that serves modern Chinese food....
...My main source on the city until then had been Paul Theroux’s Sir Vidia’s Shadow, a mean-spirited and very funny portrait of the writer V.S. Naipaul....
...“The Saudi does not like work in restaurants or taxis: he thinks it’s a bad job because Saudis like working in a big company, to sit in an office with a big salary,” he says....
...Over the last two decades he has watched its transformation from “Gotham City - dark, dank and dangerous” in the 1980s through its “comeback” in the 1990s under Mayor Giuliani to now - “big, bold and back...
...I was staying in a really funky hotel in a big city recently and all of a sudden all these old war veterans in their blue blazers, en masse, walk in for breakfast.”...
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