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...I’ve yet to eat in the hotel’s two-Michelin-star Flore restaurant, but I very much enjoyed dinner in its Brasserie Marie, which is popular with locals, thanks to its reasonably priced menu (hors d’oeuvres...
...“Past presidents made, I’d say, feeble attempts to regulate [Slim], but they created a monster so big that it’s very hard to domesticate him at this point,” Dresser said....
...A few crowd-drawing perennials — Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, for instance — never budge, but periodically one Rauschenberg displaces another, or a whole flock of...
...Dino D’Santiago is whipping up the audience with the ferrinho....
...“With better financial literacy I think there’d be less poverty,” Flores said. “Managing spending and resources is a sure-fire way to succeed.”...
...Which is excellent, as long as your preferences are the “Menu en 6 notes — Végétal — €121” or the “Menu en 6 notes — Faune & Flore — €143”....
...Director Jamie Lloyd gradually allows the subtlety to disperse in mass shouting, a disagreeable effect exacerbated by the actors being mic’d up....
...I live in Saint-Germain, opposite Café de Flore, so I often sit there, even when it’s freezing, to watch the people passing by....
...a slightly undone dressiness that moved from the bohemian flick of a silk scarf to an expressive piece of jewellery or the swing of an elegant coat or neckline — was captured on the runway at the Hotel D’...
...That and the fact we’re all potentially paying $2bn a year towards Big Tech’s R&D budget seems like reason enough for regulators to tighten the screw....
...“We wanted a place without frills that would feel like home,” says Anastasia Bemposta, who co-founded the restaurant with Romi Flores....
...A TTC Lomelino Verdelho from 1862 long held the record as the oldest wine I’d tasted....
...“Win, lose or draw,” said Bloom, “Brian Flores’ case is an important case.” While English cricket ponders, India gathers steam You’d be forgiven for thinking that cricket was a sport in decline....
...“If I had to bet,” says Lapchick, “I’d say it’s a long time before he gets another head coaching job.”...
...says Flore Giraud, whose great ambition is to ride for France in the Paris Olympiad in 2024....
.... £95, Assouline Château d’Haroué: The Home of the Princes de Beauvau-Craon With its impeccable 18th-century interiors and museum-worthy collection of paintings and tapestries, Château d’Haroué in France...
...It’s a habit I’ve returned to since moving back here; Café de Flore needs no introduction but I love going because it’s so close to my house....
...Lord no, you’d want your head examined before embarking on that revolting bowl of sliced white bread and scalding cheddar. We go there for the ambience, the cachet and the feeling of belonging....
...“I dreamed she’d died and I’d find her. I dreamed of her eight days in a row. But she’s never told me where she is.” Jude Webber is the FT’s Mexico and Central America correspondent....
...Indonesia’s corals are among the most pristine left on Earth, and June to August is prime season here, from Komodo east to Flores and into the Savu Sea. And then there’s French Polynesia....
...I usually pop by the Buly 1803 shop opposite, before stopping for coffee at Café de Flore....
...Brasserie Lipp, and the famous Les Deux Magots restaurant and Café de Flore have been closed for weeks, the terrasse chairs piled high inside, though local residents generally left them to the tourists,...
...As Delhi began a slow shutdown of outdoor spaces, gyms, restaurants and protest sites, I made a short list of countries I’d never visited, from Australia to Japan to Zimbabwe, and promised myself I’d start...
...If you offered them £10,000 they’d be happy. But it’s OK.” Abdul’s allusion to a dream windfall of money is a throwaway phrase. But it reflects a crucial point....
...I felt I’d entered a cave, primitive and disturbing, but over the course of several minutes my perception changed – it became a beautifully textured, calming space, like a chapel woven of reeds....
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