Hints and tips:
...Yet Steyn persevered for months, putting together a business plan aimed at making Koch a local “king-maker”, operating bars, restaurants and massage parlours that would act as a pipeline for bribing police...
...As for restaurants, La Latteria in the centro storico hits all the marks for me....
...I also love what bartender Matt Reysen is doing at Mel’s and Discolo in Chelsea....
...But there are also concierges to service any and all business needs, from cars to translators — as well as an excellent Club Lounge, and some of the speediest butler service I’ve ever had....
...Her parents had a lounge act in Las Vegas, and they made her a child actress from when she was three. She’s been in more than a dozen films like Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard....
...The Shangri-La hotel’s “Skyline” Jubilee-themed tea (£65 per person) is served in its fancy Asian restaurant lounge, Ting....
...Among those who have pivoted to also doing excellent hospitality are the Mazzei family, whose Castello di Fonterutoli, long (as in, almost 600 years long) a landmark proposition as a winemaking enterprise...
...There is another, smaller but sleeker carved-marble bar upstairs that opens in the evenings, connected to the high-end La Plume restaurant serving Japanese-inspired food and stunning panoramic views....
...“We turned it from a restaurant doing $7mn a year to a restaurant doing more than three times that without changing its size or shape,” he says....
...I still travel down to LA once or twice a week. My business needs to be based in LA, but its philosophical home is Portland. It’s a place for working on yourself....
...Piqué’s father once told La Vanguardia newspaper that his son had an IQ of 170. For a time Piqué studied business economics at the ESADE business school in Barcelona. Then he founded Kerad Games....
...Well thought-out interiors and clever branding are good for business, and interesting design is now as likely to be found on the high street as in high-end establishments....
...The four-night cruise, which leaves LA on November 27, costs from $650. www.whimsicalley.com...
...Polo Lounge Beverly Hills Hotel 9641 Sunset Boulevard Chicken noodle soup x2 $28.00 McCarthy salad $32.00 Lobster salad $36.00 Iced tea $6.00 Arnold Palmer $6.00 Total (inc. tax and service) $137.45...
...Ten minutes later, on the 22nd floor of a skinny tower in Hong Kong’s Mid-levels, we were eyed up by security as we were shown into a private room at a boisterous Sichuanese restaurant....
...The midtown Manhattan property is sure to be an instant hit with business travellers, as it is surrounded by more than 60m square feet of office space....
...“The English use the word ‘posh’ a lot,” she says, waving at a group of singers in the lunch queue as if she had sighted long-lost friends in an airport lounge. “This person is posh, that person isn’t....
...I’m going to Las Vegas with friends – I love escaping reality for a few days. I’m going to try some of the wonderful restaurants there....
...Never a big spender, he immediately rushed to his local Benihana, the chain of Japanese restaurants....
...There is a good argument for basing yourself west of Florence if you are not doing business in the city itself....
...For those whose tickets do not allow access to the lounge, wi-fi internet access will be available anywhere in the terminal – and there will be internet stations in a business lounge at an internet cafe....
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