Hints and tips:
...At a glance: Good for: Riverside chic, and a feeling of being in the centre of it all Not so good for: Shy wallets....
...Last year, a number of UK companies, including veterinary pharmaceuticals company Dechra and the restaurant group behind Japanese dining chain Wagamama, were acquired by buyout firms....
...Canary Wharf Group has been pushing to diversify the estate from its traditional focus on financial services offices by adding residential buildings, shopping and restaurants....
...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...
...In 2017, Restaurant Brands bought Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen for $1.8bn in cash to get into the chicken sandwich game. And in 2021, Restaurant Brands paid $1bn in cash for Firehouse Subs....
...And, indeed, everything about Carlotta, the latest London restaurant from the fast-growing group, screams bountifulness....
...Last month, private equity group McWin announced a deal to buy a majority stake in high-end Italian restaurant Big Mamma Group....
...The group has expanded its business recently after acquiring private credit firm Iron Park as well as a stake in a company that buys second-hand stakes in private equity funds....
...The group says “potential targets” for a rollout include Bangkok, Brooklyn and East Austin....
...“What sets Bangkok apart from, say, Hong Kong or Singapore is the raw energy and the natural creativeness,” says Choti Leenutaphong of restaurant group Foodie Collection, which operates, among other addresses...
...This century saw the hotel undergo a full renovation, re-emerging in 2011 as part of the Rosewood group....
...The group of rocks on which the wanderer stands are, I soon discovered, actually at its base....
...with the registered address of a pancake restaurant....
...Hippos grunted testily, elephants swam across the river, trunks held aloft like snorkels, while forest buffalo, their ears like feathered purses, squelched in the riverside mud....
...When Emanuel co-founded the talent agency Endeavor in 1995, he worked out of a small office above a hamburger restaurant in South Beverly Hills....
...Opened in February 2022, it’s a collaboration between Trippa Milano and local restaurant group ZS Hospitality....
...Restaurants have used the scalability of online ordering to grow beyond the constraint of table covers using services such as Deliveroo and UberEats....
...“If someone moving to the area posts on our local Facebook group about trying to find a home, some responses go for the jugular,” she says....
...A small on-site restaurant serves barbecue food and light meals. Tables on the decks can be reserved and groups can book catering packages — ideal for small parties....
...However, many of these groups’ market shares are currently small....
...As investors have forced a fresh era of austerity on Hollywood, traditional media groups are struggling to make the numbers add up, while larger technology groups are viewed as being better able to swallow...
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...There are many mediocre fado restaurants in Alfama, where old women in shawls croak their repertoire....
...The development’s first hotel, it is also the first UK outpost for the European group, owned by Radisson, which already has addresses in Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam and Budapest....
...In Tokyo, it serves katsuo and other Kochi favourites at a branch in a 10-storey riverside building devoted to restaurants....
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