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...James Cheung At Hong Kong's Lanson Place, housed in a 26-story skyscraper, Cheung guides guests--free of charge or tip--on what he calls "a wow walk" designed to help them feel at ease in the buzzy Causeway Bay neighborhood. He points out affordable cafés for lunch, the fastest routes to Prada and Dior as well as Ying Kee Tea House, where guests can stock up on oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat...
...protégé of Rayburn's would ever willingly give up jurisdiction over a lunch menu--let alone the biggest bill in decades. Dingell flexed the muscle of a half-century and rallied his fellow committee chairs against this infringement of prerogatives. The select committee was promptly neutered. "John is the quintessential congressional chairman, protecting his jurisdiction while often reaching to grab someone else's," according to Leon Panetta, who chaired the Budget Committee before serving as White House chief of staff. "The last thing he wants is to lose jurisdiction...
...honest, I might not stay in England at all. Instead, I would catch the Eurostar to Paris, take a taxi to the Odéon area of St. Germain, and book myself a table for lunch at Les Editeurs. Part café, part restaurant, part library, this is the kind of enigmatic, open-all-day place Paris does so wonderfully well. I've had every type of meal there: breakfasts of croissants, orange juice and piping-hot fresh coffee; lunchtime feasts of moules marinières and chips washed down with Puligny-Montrachet; afternoon tea while reading English newspapers...
...array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch at the Ivy, dinner at Le Caprice, and a night in the penthouse suite of somewhere historic and magnificent like Claridges...
...Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-winning director Roman Polanksi took the press corps to task. "I think it's really the computer that's brought you down to this level. You're no longer interested in what's going on in the cinema. Frankly, let's all go and have lunch." Hmm. Was this disgust talking--or just hunger? SCORE...