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...The stolid, Beaux Arts classical building dates from 1914 and the museum is in what was once a large auditorium while the smaller concert hall is now a grand public café....
...The house has been designed to complement the landscape, with its exterior walls clad in local sandstone. Glass walls are placed to take advantage of the views and there are two roof terraces....
...It could also help raise standards: in recent years auditors have missed serious financial problems that have caused the collapse of businesses including outsourcer Carillion, retailer BHS and café chain...
...She “took the soul of all that” back to Hong Kong, recreating an outpost of the Café Carlyle, nightly jazz and all. It still, she says, has a waiting list for membership in the hundreds....
...Last month, TRG offloaded its Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito chains to Cafe Rouge owner Big Table group, saying it would pay its rival £7.5mn to take the lossmaking businesses, along with around £50mn...
...The attached Bel Café is a lovely little spot for a takeaway coffee and a pastry, while Reflections, the hotel’s fourth-floor alfresco terrace, serves small plates and craft cocktails alongside a good selection...
...For the moment, the hotel’s café is open only for breakfast, but promises “irresistible Portuguese gastronomy” and a wide menu of petiscos (or Portuguese tapas) in time....
...Hybrid working allowed them to move with their two small children to Bridport, a mile inland of West Bay with its vertiginous sandstone cliffs....
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The restaurant, formerly the much-loved Café Boulud, will be replaced by an outpost of the also very fine but flashier Miami institution Casa Tua....
...Sell Us the Rope by Stephen May, Sandstone Press £8.99, 240 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Case in point: Elliott’s 2018 victory at hotel and restaurant multinational Whitbread, when the activist used an — albeit uncharacteristic — gentle approach to get its way and spin off the group’s Costa café...
...Buyers who cannot afford Finnieston are now looking to Dennistoun in the East End — home to traditional tenements and pubs and latterly craft-beer shops and cafés — says Carole Mackie of Savills development...
...Up front, this bike-friendly 14km corridor of grey karst limestone offers easy climbing and cafés in caves; deeper in lie more adventurous routes on the rockface of Anića Kuk....
...Also sought after are the “Lion Houses” built by James Nicholl between 1899 and 1903 (there are some in Fulham too) that have sandstone lions on their gates and gables....
...In the entrance lobby — the front door straight off the street, as was the way in Spain’s historic towns — a high, chunky arch of old sandstone, beautifully restored, announces the age and grandeur of the...
...Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds, by Helen Gordon, Profile, RRP£20, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...On the rare occasions when we’d venture out, it would be to eat fresh grilled fish and drink cocktails on the beach at Comporta Café....
...After a day of laps, with some snow forecast overnight, I make plans to move on after breakfast at the Moose Cafe....
...Blackstone: under the arches A lot of Londoners have a soft spot for the city’s Victorian railway arches, which house everything from hipster cafés to mechanics’ workshops. Blackstone likes them too....
...Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice, by CJ Schüler, Sandstone, RRP£16.99, 344 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley has the Intel-based version with a 13.5in screen and a new Sandstone colour....
...It is designing cafés with awnings that can protect people from heat or cold (with, yes, more sensors) and underground tunnels through which robots can deliver goods to apartments....
...The 200km journey from New Delhi takes four hours along jarring, potholed roads, and there is no café on site....
...“The whole experience has been very stressful,” says Racheal Wellman, who lost her café job in Melbourne when social distancing was introduced in March....
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