Informal friendliness meets cool architecture in Chicago
At most of the world's wine bars there's a direct correlation between the quality of the decor, the quality of the wine and the snootiness of the clientele. At Chicago's Avec Restaurant & Wine Bar high design and highly delicious wine have been refreshingly paired with a friendly, ...
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Why Maui Jim sunglasses are worth it
We are surprised how often we meet people heading off on a nice, reasonably expensive holiday with cheap sunglasses. Their logic goes something like this: I'm afraid of something happening to my sunglasses, and I might loose them, and since all sunglasses are basically the same I'll just ...
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Between Oxford and London, between trashy and luxurious
Sometimes it's a fine line separating gaudy from opulent, and trashy from romantic. Straddling those lines is the Crazy Bear Hotel in Old Beaconsfield, England Conservative Beaconsfield might be the last place in Britain you'd expect to find the decidedly unconservative Crazy Bear. Indeed, from the outside this hotel ...
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Jackets (or bear skins) required
At almost any bar in the world you can get a drink with ice. At a few you can get a drink in ice. While sitting on seats made of ice. At a table made of ice. Surrounded by walls made of ice. The concept of the ice bar ...
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Airfare, hotel rooms, cruise tickets and all-inclusive vacations at a discount
Welcome to the first in an ongoing series of posts Spot Cool Stuff is launching on cool travel deals. Awesome airfare discounts, spectacular cruise sales, reduced resort rates, guidebook bargains, high-value all-inclusive vacations—we keep an eye out for current deals on them all, aggregating the best into a ...
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Behind the scenes of a secret restaurant in the French capital
If there is one dinner to plan in advance on your trip to Paris, make it Hidden Kitchen. Located in the swanky Parisian flat of two talented American chefs, this secret restaurant is where food-loving strangers come to meet and eat. Over the last few years there’s been ...
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