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...On daily walks, they’d send each other voicenotes rhapsodising about restaurant meals past....
...In 13th-century Hangzhou, you could taste imitation puffer fish or imitation river deer in city restaurants....
...But the market’s only busier compared with last year’s decade low; deals cratered in 2023 following a frenzy of activity during the pandemic that was fuelled by rock-bottom interest rates....
...Apollo has done deals in the restaurant and entertainment sector before but has largely focused on companies in North America. Among its past investments are the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain....
...Restaurant critics have started to see Miami in a new light too....
...When I was growing up, meals featured steamed Pacific rock cod caught by my late father, or stir-fried watercress foraged from a local stream....
...The lights frame an obsidian mountain, which looks as if the rock face is rising straight out of the ocean....
...Wine and food (he was an important restaurant critic) were pretexts for writing about society....
...(Increasingly, you’re encouraged to do this yourself using a contraption brought to the table.)...
...Former restaurant critic John Lanchester noted in 2011 – when the premises was taken over by St John Hotel – how the once historic restaurant had “like many a historic restaurant before it, become historically...
...We are meeting at Dean Street Townhouse, a restaurant opened by his friend and Soho House founder Nick Jones....
...In the summer, folding tables stream down the long sidewalk outside....
...Today, the sand lingers on in the form of sandstone table mountains, ramparts of rock sculpted into fantastical forms by wind, rain and ice....
...Istanbul is ahead of much larger regional bourses on the 2023 league table, including London, Milan and Frankfurt....
...I went with the designer Zandra Rhodes in 1990 and we discovered fantastical rocks sold from rickety tables perched on the edge of the winding roads. We called them “rock shops”....
...Growing up, she wanted to be a chef and nothing makes her happier than getting friends around a table and feeding them....
...So, on Valentine’s Day, I arrive at Americana, a restaurant just off London’s Piccadilly Circus with a southern US theme....
...You can order vodka to add to your claret because it’s “not strong enough” (famous rock star, famous London restaurant) and we won’t mind, as long as you order with a smile and ask how the evening’s been...
...A £300mn private investment will fund entertainment centres, a hotel, restaurants, a heritage quarter....
...The long alfresco space glows with candle- and fairy-light; slick teak tables seat couples or parties as big as 20....
...The restaurant is growing increasingly raucous, making it difficult to hear each other across the table. Flames periodically shoot upwards from the robata grill in the open kitchen....
...The final scrabble unlocked a panoramic deck, paper clipped to tables to catch grease, the sea far, far down beyond us....
...The restaurant is on the second floor of the shopping centre, and our outside table provides a lovely view of the mountains that form the boundary of the Coachella Valley....
...It is a vertical maze, ribs of rock dividing the numerous gullies and spurs....
...Restaurants caught between fixed rents, rising overheads and squeezed customer budgets — and there might be an even more unpleasant challenge waiting behind the next rock....
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