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...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...The chef Raymond Blanc is here too, and will take over the hotel’s kitchens tonight....
...He is no chef, but he is game....
...De Rothschild, meanwhile, transplanted the two-Michelin-star restaurant Le 1920 from the Chalet du Mont d’Arbois to her new hotel, where young chef Julien Gatillon does remarkable things with globe artichokes...
...I watch the stone of the great idea turn pink against the dying sky. The castle has closed for the day, the tourists who flock to it have gone....
...The possible eclipse of Intel by a Southern California supersemi combo might look like a coup de grâce, but that would be too simplistic a summary....
...The regulatory approval represents an important milestone in the process, announced last year, to launch a cash tender offer for Delta’s acquisition for up to 49 percent of Grupo Aeromexico S.A.B. de C.V...
...Sky is maintaining its dominance of German football but will have to share the rights to screen live Bundesliga matches with Eurosport, in a new four-year deal just announced worth a record €4.6bn....
...Part-owned by chef Nobu Matsuhisa and actor Robert De Niro, the 181-room hotel occupies a separate tower in the middle of the resort....
...The trip starts on January 3 2013 in Punta Arenas, Chile, and ends in Rio de Janeiro in late February....
...Covering some 4,000 square miles at an altitude of 3,650m, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...‘Golden Spider Silk’, V&A Studio Gallery, January 25 – June 5...
...Behind me the Chaine de Aravis lurked, dark slabs of stone thrusting through the gloom....
...We Are Soldiers is constructed around a series of interviews with everyone from postmen and chefs to hardened infantrymen, from guardsmen to generals, medics to Apache pilots....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
...A tour de force....
...Evrard, who, like the restaurant’s pastry chef, sommelier and chef, worked at the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris, has decided that waiters should not unfold napkins for guests and place them on their...
...Even so, the list reads a little oddly: Paris (the Georges V, indeed), Provence, Budapest, Dublin, Istanbul, Milan, Prague…and Farnham....
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