If you manage to brave the crowds to see the Michelangelo masterpieces now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now end your cultural jaunt with a culinary treat under the same roof. The Dining Room at the museum recently opened to the public for the first time since it started as a … Read more
In the third part of our blog series on creating attractive effects using energy efficient lighting with designer Graham Festenstein, we move on to the kitchen and dining area. It’s a focal point of many homes, and one where task lighting understandably can take precedence over general room ambience. Focus on surfaces In previous blogs, he’s explained that … Read more
If you manage to brave the crowds to see the Michelangelo masterpieces now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now end your cultural jaunt with a culinary treat under the same roof. The Dining Room at the museum recently opened to the public for the first time since it started as a … Read more
A London restaurant with “a sense of grandeur and political intrigue unlike any other” is set to open up for three days next month – inside the Houses of Parliament. Diners will be able to sample the “top-end British cuisine” usually only available to high profile politicians in February, if they can snap up a … Read more
nce you’ve made a reservation at Paris’s first nudist restaurant, you find –yourself neurotically broadcasting this bit of news to anyone who will listen. While vacationing in France’s capital recently, a visitor from New York City approached the front desk of his hotel and told the thoughtful-looking employee seated there, “Tonight, we will be eating … Read more
The Oakville Drama Series continues with its third show of the season, the Pulitzer Prize nominated play The Dining Room. The show runs evenings from Wednesday, Jan. 10 to Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, with a matinee performance on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m. The Dining … Read more
When Louise Roe went looking for a dining room table last year, she started where a lot of us do—by noting what she liked best about the options she could find, cobbling them into a perfect (but nonexistent) table design in her head. “I had the image in my mind of the table I wanted,” the news-editor-turned-style … Read more
AN elderly couple who found one of the deadliest snakes in the world in their dining room did the right thing by calling an expert, a Townsville snake catcher said. Exiled snake saved from starvation Joe Mackereth was called out to a residential home in Condon on Wednesday about noon to reports of an eastern brown … Read more
Even if your dining room is more like a breakfast nook—or more like a card table smushed up against the wall—you’ll need to find a way to light it unless you like eating in the dark. True, you could just screw a bulb into the ceiling and call it a day, but what would be the fun … Read more
With First Class travelers wanting to sleep and work on board, upscale meals are migrating to the terminal lounge. By Justin Bachman June 21, 2017, 2:15 PM GMT+5:30 June 21, 2017, 9:18 PM GMT+5:30 “You’ve got to try the burger.” That was the counsel of Kurt Stache, a veteran of airport dining and airline marketing, … Read more