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...“It’s like a rebirth,” added King, remarking on his longest exile from London’s exclusive dining scene since he stopped running Caprice Holdings, the company behind the Ivy restaurant, in 2000....
...Oliver is relaunching in London later this year but notably with a more premium offering to rival Caring’s Ivy restaurant chain....
...Ivy chain — are up between 15-18 per cent compared with 2019 levels, putting the group on course for revenues of more than £600mn....
...In Barnes’ renovation, evidence of the past is everywhere, from the pit-scars of ivy in the lodge’s soft Bath stone to the original cast-iron ranges in the fireplaces, which have somehow survived....
...It quickly transpired that everyone (else) had an expensive Ivy League MBA (approx $76,000)....
...Newport told me that when he and Simmons formed the company he would spend hours in Barnes & Noble trawling through business self-help books, giving him a lasting appreciation for the genre....
...Other good hanging plants are Lepismium bolivianum — a type of jungle cactus — and Devil’s Ivy (Epipremnum aureum), which is like a Peace Lily....
...In his recent novel The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes described the agonies of composer Dmitry Shostakovich, as he twisted in the wind of the Stalinist gale....
...Barnes still believes James’s literary essays are his best work “not least because it will continue to irritate him”. Barnes first met James in the Bung Hole, a London wine bar in the 1970s....
...Far from being out of the running, North America – including New York and the Ivy League university cities – is beginning to recover from deep discounts, once again offering good investment opportunities...
...Light, space, atmosphere,” says Yolande Barnes, head of research at Savills....
...In 2010 Mr Burkle failed in an effort to secure seats on the board of Barnes & Noble, the struggling book retailer in which he owned a stake....
...It is true, however, that writers – for instance, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and James Fenton, the latter a guest at Hodgkin’s house in Normandy this Christmas – are certainly among his closest friends...
...We meet at the Ivy Club in London; the Ivy, the restaurant next door, is where the arts and media world goes to be seen, and to enjoy the noise....
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