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Although FlyBy’s name evokes images of chicken salad sandwiches in shrink wrap, we’d like to think we have good taste. What could be better, then, than an opportunity to don our Sunday best and dine amidst freshly pressed linens and candlelight? But alas, in a recession, this luxury is becoming more difficult to afford. Thankfully, Boston’s Winter Restaurant Week starts today, running through March 20 and continuing from March 22 through March 27. More details after the jump...
...year, 224 Boston-area restaurants are participating, and, for the first time, some restaurants are serving a two-course lunch for only $15.09. That’s only slightly more expensive than a HUDS dinner—but instead of another variation of chicken and overcooked pasta, you can dine on seared ahi tuna, yellowtail sole with haricots verts, brandade potatoes and nicoise olive and tomato vinaigrette (at Harvest). FlyBy has some restaurant week tips...
...usually closer to 30%. And a large percentage of Chinese - upwards of 40% according to some estimates - pay cash for new apartments, because in a high savings economy, housing is widely seen as a safe investment. That means, in China, you don't have the real estate equivalent of "dine and dash": people don't abandon houses the minute they think the price level is lower than what they paid, leaving it to the mortgage company or the banks to sort out. There's no sub-prime, zero-percent-down U.S.-style debacle here...
...lies Target's problem. Things are so bad, even cheap clothes are a luxury now. Why pull a new shirt off the store rack when you can snatch one out of the closet for free? Food, however, is not discretionary. Everyone has to eat, and more consumers want to dine at home to shave expenses. And there's a certain merchandising mammoth fulfilling that crucial grocer's role for consumers much better than Target. (See pictures of stores that are no more...
...luck ran out in a German court Monday, when Sgarbi was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud, attempted fraud and attempted blackmail. Sgarbi confessed that not only did he dine, bewitch and bed a number of married women, but tricked them into paying him to keep quiet. In two cases, he confessed, he used blackmail to extract money. (Read: "The Royal Blackmail Mystery...