Word: gourmets
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Yesterday, the University served high quality, gourmet, organic, fairly traded coffee in every dining hall—the result of a successful campaign for this coffee by the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative...
...Gourmet dining is the newest trend in Europe's luxury department stores, and the menus are as cutting-edge as the fashions around them. Though designers like Armani, Courrèges, Ventillo, Lanvin, Barbara Bui and Nicole Farhi realized years ago that the chicest store accessory is a stylish café bearing your label, major retailers are just now choosing to create and run their own restaurants rather than depending on outside concessionaires. "It is a completely new era for restaurants and retail," says Jean Paul Barat, general manager of food operations at Selfridges. "Food is now a driving force...
...Paris, Galeries Lafayette has renovated its food department, Lafayette Gourmet, to include not just Le Chênevert, but also Le Bar Rouge, a sleek bistro with stainless steel communal tables and a blackboard menu offering grilled fish, sausages, salads and hearty soups to a business lunch crowd. Not to be outdone, rival Le Printemps has introduced several new restaurants, including The World Bar, decorated by designer Paul Smith, and Bar 01, which is staying open until 10 p.m. on Thursday evenings hoping to keep young shoppers inside the store. "If there is a good restaurant, customers will stay...
...Impromptu Gourmet meals, also about $70, came in far prettier boxes, and there were only two--one for the breast of duck with a pomegranate molasses glaze ($39.95 for two servings) by Charlie Palmer of New York City's Aureole, the other for the molten chocolate cake with caramel custard sauce ($12.95) from Manhattan's Gramercy Tavern. At first I was a tad overwhelmed by the 10 plastic bags that the ingredients came in. Luckily, assembling the spread turned out to be as easy as painting by numbers. Since Impromptu's meals come refrigerated instead of frozen like FiveLeaf...
...YOUR OWN BOAT Want to take the helm yourself? The folks at Thai Marine Leisure, based in Phuket, furnish an array of do-it-yourself boat vacations for all levels of experience. Choose from luxury charters complete with gourmet chefs and a professional crew, to rentals of bare boats, where would-be Ahabs can fulfill their own nautical fantasies by cooking, navigating, and swabbing the decks. Find them all on the Web at thaimarine.com, or call...