| A table, madam? No chance | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:14:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Reindeer restaurant is probably the most fashionable restaurant in the world. It's wildly exciting on every level. It's really hard to find; no detailed instructions regarding its whereabouts exist, presumably because that sort of thing is considered rather gauche in Very Cool World, but for the record, it's located above a grubby hip car park in East London. Its presence is marked only by two reindeer-head cutouts, which flank the entry to the car park; and a charming top-hatted, frock-coated doorman, who stands at the bottom of the stairs that lead up from the car park, into the restaurant itself. At the top of those stairs, you are greeted by a succession of exotic creatures: an unfeasibly pretty piece clad in a crystal-encrusted mini-shift and Edie Sedgwick-alike woolly tights; an excellent drag queen; and also that rarest of creatures, a really good-looking ginger-haired man.... | |
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| | | Back-up buyer stokes opposition to Whiteside plan | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:44:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Standing on one side of a long table at a downtown restaurant, Walt Griffiths looked into the faces of a dozen Corvallis movers and shakers. Then he made his pitch.Griffiths and his wife, Kim, want to buy the long-vacant Whiteside Theatre and restore it for use as a Christian education and performing arts center, but a group of Portland investors calling themselves Whiteside Partners LLC already have an option on the property. This Tuesday, the Portland developers will ask the Corvallis Historic Resources Commission to approve exterior alterations to the Whiteside that will allow them to convert the former movie theater into a retail complex with shops on the ground floor and a restaurant and bar upstairs.Over lunch at The Pantry last week, Griffiths was asking his guests who included downtown property owners, historic preservationists, an architect, an engineer and both mayoral candidates to testify against that proposal."What I'd like you to do is consider being involved," Griffiths told them.... | |
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| | | 2 chefs start their own restaurant after hurricane | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:16:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Not long after Adam and Christina Rosenblum settled in New Orleans to start their careers as restaurant chefs, the unexpected happened. And like so many others, they found themselves starting over.When Hurricane Katrina hit the shores of the Gulf Coast last year, the couple ended up with family in Maumelle, once again looking for the best way to realize their dreams. Having lived in Little Rock for a short while six years ago and with family in the area, Christina Rosenblum said, moving to Central Arkansas was a natural next step. And although their home wasn't destroyed by the hurricane, New Orleans was on lockdown and without electricity long enough for the couple to decide to leave town and reach for their dream by opening their own restaurant elsewhere."So I stayed in the extra bedroom for a while and just did restaurant planning," Adam Rosenblum said.... | |
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| | | Detroit probes reports of 30 who became ill Roostertail banquet | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:41:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | DETROIT --The city's health department is investigating reports that 30 people became ill while attending a banquet at the Roostertail restaurant on the city's eastside. The Food Division of the Detroit Health and Wellness Promotion Department has launched an investigation into reports of 30 cases of flu-like illnesses by attendees of the Detroit Home Design Awards banquet Oct. 26 at the Roostertail, according to a press release issued Thursday by the city of Detroit. A spokesman for the Roostertail said restaurant management is cooperating fully with the city health department. "They don't know if it was food borne or airborne," said Paul Barker, director of marketing for the Roostertail, which has been in business for 48 years. "We had people who called to say, 'I didn't eat the food and I got sick,' " said Barker.... | |
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| | | Stevens aiming to 'represent working class' of the city | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:24:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Stevens started working at a Waffle House restaurant in Franklin, Tenn. when he was 16 years old. The 45-year-old has been working hard ever since and said he wants to get on the Lodi City Council to represent the workers of Lodi."I'm a worker. I have a strong work ethic," said the telecommunications company owner. "I believe I can represent the working class, the people that want to work." .... | |
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| | | Home from home | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 3:11:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Saturday and the Design Quarter, in the New North not far from Montecasino in Fourways, is already hopping. It isn't only bored husbands - those who don't share their wives' wholehearted embrace of the my-home-is-my-castle trend - hogging tables on what has become an umbrella-dotted communal piazza for the restaurants. Runners and bikers are downing sports drinks at Primi Extreme before they hit the road again; whole families are piling into the breakfast buffet - especially the spicy chipolatas - at Kitchen Bar; and the baristas are going ballistic at Woolworths Food Bar. .... | |
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| | | Luggage Club makes golf travel easier | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:09:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | NAPLES, Fla. (Oct. 23, 2006) - Want to get your feet wet, your knees sandy and the rest of your body pampered, on the edge of the wide Gulf of Mexico and the wild 10,000 Islands? They used to do it at The Registry, a luxury resort here in the corner of southwest Florida, smack dab on the sandy gulf beach. They're still doing it, only under a different handle and in altered surroundings. The Registry was relaunched in December 2005 with a new name, the Naples Grande Resort and Club, and a distinctly new look. The facility has been undergoing a multi-million dollar renaissance, in stages, including a full redesign of the lobby, lounge and banquet facility as well as the bungalows and other accommodations. The lobby now features soaring ceilings that range in height from 12 to 35 feet, and the whole area has been opened up and simplified.... | |
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| | | DAPAC, Design Review Meetings Focus on Housing, Projects | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:09:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | A five-person panel will present their views Wednesday night about the role of social services, homelessness and new housing in a new plan for downtown Berkeley. The following evening, the Design Review Committee will examine plans for a series of projects that will make major changes in the Berkeley streetscape. The Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee (DAPAC) meets Wednesday to hear from Berkeley YMCA Executive Director Peter Chong; Chris Hess, director of resident services for affordable housing developer RCD; Boona Cheema, executive director of Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency; and Steve Barton and Jane Micallef of the city Housing Department. DAPAC was created by the settlement of the city's lawsuit challenging UC Berkeley's Long Range Development Plan 2020 and must create a new plan for an expanded downtown area.... | |
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| | | platter | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 3:10:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE 23 HOYT LOWDOWN -- It's hard to imagine transforming a restaurant into something new and distinctive in three days. But that's what two savvy pros hope to do after Balvo serves its last Italian meal Saturday night on Northwest 23rd, 10 months after the sleek, million-dollar-plus restaurant failed to find consistency or a clear identity, despite foisting its ubiquitous logo on perplexed diners. Chef Kenny Giambalvo returns full time to Bluehour, co-owned by his now-former Balvo partner Bruce Carey, who is working furiously to reopen Wednesday as the new 23 Hoyt. (Yes, we need a flow chart). In addition to a broadly European menu, Carey hopes to infuse the two-level room with the elements Balvo lacked: warmth and personality. No easy task, given the hyper-clean architecture.... | |
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| | | Illegal immigrants file suit against Wendy's | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 7:08:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | HOUSTON - Dozens of illegal immigrants who worked for Wendy's International Inc. are suing the restaurant chain after they were fired when the company discovered its attorneys failed to file paperwork for a legalization program. The lawsuit filed Friday in Houston is a companion to a similar class-action suit filed against Wendy's, its subsidiary Cafe Express and the Houston-based business law firm Boyar & Miller last month in Dallas. In the two lawsuits, 40 illegal immigrants say they were fired after the company recently found the law firm Wendy's hired never filed paperwork for a 2001 legalization program that allowed immigrants with employer sponsorship or an American spouse apply to for citizenship. Once the discovery was made, Wendy's was forced to fire the employees because of their illegal status.... | |
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