Hints and tips:
...The night passed in a kind of haze. Nothing to do with the ample booze, but the kindness, the warmth of being welcomed unexpectedly into a family, into a family restaurant....
...Industries such as retail and restaurants draw from the same pool of labourers, providing competition. A judge in Oregon will decide who is right....
...London’s Tayēr + Elementary bar was one of the first indies to make food a talking point – current bites at the bar include truffle crisps with cauliflower dip, nduja and anchovy, and dulce de leche cheesecake...
...Rashid, who had been fired from Apollo and repaid the expenses, offered an intriguing defence: He said he believed Apollo, not the funds, was reimbursing him for, among other things, restaurant boondoggles...
...It’s rare for buyout partners to become executives of the companies they own. Cutting costs, 3G sold off the 1,300 company-owned restaurants to franchisees....
...US private equity group Apollo Global Management has struck a deal to buy Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group for £506mn, following a lengthy campaign by activist investors for a shake-up of the dining operator...
...And one area of Kansas experienced a cattle-market liquidity crisis in 2019, after a couple that owned a livestock-sale barn was charged with kiting more than $2bn in checks — leading to tens of millions...
...A prime example is this weekend’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, which is expected to be watched by 100mn people, where a 30-second slot costs about $7mn....
...Private equity-backed chains such as Prezzo and Côte Restaurants have had to undergo restructurings to stay afloat. Burger chain Byron Burgers has also suffered financial difficulties....
...Research has found that certain combinations of fats and sugars give our brains a dopamine hit similar to that of nicotine and alcohol: lab rats given cheesecake can develop a lethally overwhelming desire...
...Later, when I started eating in overseas restaurants, often as research for my books, many of the wintry desserts I encountered were trifle-like, with cream and fruit and served in a glass dish to show off...
...During Katharine Hepburn’s 1950 visit, she provided a list of requirements to the management, one of which was that she did not want to eat in the Georgia’s dining room, nor go out to a local restaurant,...
...We’re too full for dessert, so the cheesecake I ordered as part of the set menu and Douglas’s apple pie sundae are brought out for us to take away in dainty cardboard boxes....
...Some of it is just classic earnings-call bragging — implicitly calling Apollo the Michelin-starred restaurant of private credit — but most of it is genuinely intriguing....
...a pancake restaurant....
...Colorado alleged that Google’s treatment of internet companies focused on specific sectors — such as Expedia for travel or OpenTable for restaurant bookings — had anti-competitive effects in internet search...
...He was constantly scheming, selling slices of his mother’s homemade cheesecake from his lunchbox to the highest bidder at school....
...Of course, I simply had no room for dessert. What do you think I am, some sort of feral Rabelaisian hippo? Anyway, the Meghli cheesecake, baked with rice, fragrant with anise and caraway, was terrific....
...But above all she is, I quickly realise when we meet in a London restaurant, a believer....
...There is also a host of excellent, more low-key Japanese restaurants, too....
...more restaurants and shops....
...Lagarde says the cheesecake is the best this side of the Atlantic. I ask the waitress if we can have that instead of the petite pâtisserie and sorbet on the menu, only to be told: “I must ask.”...
...“They want to go to the same schools, and eat at the same restaurants . . . they want the fairy tale as well.”...
...Josh Franklin To one of the most fun moments we had, the weekend, we were doing Kansas. We flew to Kansas City, and we arrive on a Friday evening, and we have nothing. We don’t we have no plans....
...At the height of summer, London’s restaurants hit a strawberry fever pitch, capitalising on the many farms and picking grounds within a short distance of the capital....
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