Hints and tips:
...Two years ago, his passions culminated in Citizen Tea Canteen, an eye-catching showroom and cha yen tea parlour hidden in the labyrinthine lanes of Bangkok’s rapidly gentrifying Chinatown....
...At more than 20 storeys, Nairn feared that Lewis Solomon Kaye and Partners’ Hilton Hotel on Park Lane was in danger of “urbanising Green Park”....
...Two well-proven winners are yellow and orange-red Carlton and creamy-white Sempre Avanti with a central cup of orange-red....
...When I lived in an apartment on inner-city Exhibition Street in 1994, the centre had so few residents that I had to drive to the neighbouring suburb of Carlton to buy a pint of milk....
...Located at the end of a blocked-off lane, the coffee shop is almost made to be stumbled upon....
...The Barbary Jason PhillipsDirector, Wiltons Holdings - Franco’s, Wiltons & Locket’s Jamie PoultonFounder, Randall & Aubin Baroness ShackletonBelgravia LVO Michael ShepherdGeneral Manager, Hilton Park Lane...
...There is nothing very Arabian about it, nor the food: its British chef worked for five years in Nobu in Park Lane, London....
...He worked for his father in Petticoat Lane, until he was sacked (“for laziness”)....
...What an imposter I must appear then, on our final night together, when I’m ceremonially dressed in a kimono at our hotel, the elegant Ritz-Carlton Kyoto....
...Lawyers in the venerable courts off Chancery Lane privately despair of the tactics that are being employed....
...“Vulnerable hotels are Sheraton, Hyatt and Ritz-Carlton. They could all do more than they have done thus far....
...He has been purchasing contemporary art for the Ritz-Carlton’s second hotel in Kazakhstan, due to open in 2017 in the capital, Astana....
...Ritz-Carlton, for example, runs 90 hotels worldwide but does not own any of them; Starwood owns only 33 the 1,249 properties it runs....
...“This is a unique opportunity, a marquee asset on Park Lane, and something like that just doesn’t come up very often.”...
...In May, Qatar-based Katara Hospitality agreed a deal to acquire five of the group’s hotels, including the Carlton in Cannes, and the Amstel in Amsterdam....
...With a Ritz-Carlton on one side and a Marriott on the other, Yalong Bay is a transplant of multinational tourism on China’s southernmost point....
...Earlier this year the same investors bought the Ritz Carlton hotel in Wicklow, which they have rebranded....
...Khalid Albaih, a cartoonist and graphic designer in whose car I’m travelling, steers his Land Cruiser into the right-hand lane and slows right down....
...An altogether more glossy and slick affair than John Pawson’s original, Cathay Pacific’s renovated lounge makes a slight nod to the work of Masamichi Katayama at the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, and aims to...
...Katie Taylor claims the Four Seasons in London’s Park Lane was the first hotel in the world to put shampoo in bathrooms. The first?...
...Dave Parkinson has been mopping up gold medals at the July shows I have missed since 2006 and he took me through the plants’ secrets, as he and his wife have learnt them at their nursery at 4 West Bank, Carlton...
...A favourite haunt was the fashionable Met bar in the Metropolitan Hotel, on Park Lane. Occasionally, he went gambling in Mayfair with Mr Green....
...John Havens, another veteran of Morgan Stanley and Old Lane, now heads Citi’s securities business and oversees CAI....
...Those eight-lane highways are now choked, and Ladas are a rarity amid a seemingly permanent snarl-up of Mercs and SUVs....
...John Havens, who joined with Pandit from Old Lane, and now oversees Citi’s alt-investment division, then arranged the purchase of Carlton Hill Global Capital, notes Deal Journal....
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