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...three miles this morning and did sit-ups so I could have these," says Edward Edelman, 43, a New York financial consultant, as he dips into a bowlful of raspberries crowned with a snowfall of whipped cream at Vico, an uptown Italian trattoria. In San Francisco, Sterrett Brandt, 30, until recently traffic coordinator at U.S. Recycling Industries, says she wouldn't hesitate to order chocolate tortes or cheesecake when treated to a business lunch. "Since I'm not paying, the calories don't really count," she rationalizes. In Chicago, Donna Needy, 41, a casualty-company exec, begins each weekday with...
Like many controversies in the Big Apple, this one quickly involved the ebullient, omniactive Mayor Edward Koch. Alfredo Viazzi, owner of Trattoria da Alfredo, a pocket-size Greenwich Village eating house, squealed to the press that hizzoner was a frequent brown-bagging customer. What is more, Viazzi dared the liquor authority to do something about it. After all, Viazzi said, "nobody is going to arrest the mayor. It's crazy. I've been letting my customers carry in their own wine for 12½ years and keeping everybody happy. Now they find an old dusty law and they...
They practically tumble off the shelves in an avalanche of stars and toques, bursting open with emphatic recommendations and indignant dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...
Travelers to Italy will find their best values away from the beaten tourist track. At La Badia, a converted 12th century monastery 75 minutes north of Rome, double rooms cost $33. Lunch at Peppone, a very good medium-priced trattoria off the Via Veneto, costs $16, including appetizer, dessert and drinks. Status shoppers can pick up a pair of black Gucci loafers at $92 for men, $72 for women, or about 40% to 50% less than on Fifth Avenue...
Three steps away from the blind Jew is a little Italian guy twirling an embryonic pizza at the counter of La Trattoria, one of the many sidewalk ethnic food joints which are wedged into former storefornts. Staring aimlessly into the passing traffic, the pizzaman seems as blind as his neighbor. Asking the pizzaman for his name seems a sure bet to end the conversation, so he too, remains anonymous...