(1) The retailer has put in thousands more staff to improve service and has been testing new ideas in existing stores, such as artisan bakeries run by Euphorium, a specialist baker based in Islington in London; and upmarket Harris + Hoole coffee shops and Giraffe restaurants – all businesses that Tesco has invested in over the past two years.
(2) It was an idea that fitted nicely with the ethos of the Martin Margiela Artisanal collection, which is rooted in making fashion out of found objects.
(3) Owner Sergio has 15 artisanal beers on the menu every week and serves very generous G&Ts and delicious Aperol Spritz.
(4) Highlighting the performance in the capital, the firm said would-be brewers had been encouraged by the success of artisanal beer-makers such as The Kernel in London’s Bermondsey and the Camden Town Brewery, sold last year to drinks giant AB InBev in a deal reportedly worth £85m .
(5) Centro Cerámica Triana Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Housed in an old ceramics factory built on the site of a 16th-century one, inevitably plonked on a Roman one, this museum (€2pp, Calle Antillano Campos 14) could do more to trumpet the industry that spawned Triana, created the look and feel of Seville, and inspired Lisbon’s artisans to have a go at the whole tile thing.
(6) So, rather than giving up bread, the real-bread movement suggests you eat the old-fashioned stuff – supporting artisan bakeries or baking your own.
(7) The results can be summarized as follows: a. the times of the two main meals show a high stability, both in working and in free-days, at about 1230 for lunch and 1915 for dinner, with a higher variability for the dinner-time; b. there are no relevant differences between men and women; c. there is a progressive advance of the breakfast-time (together with sleeping and waking times) with oncoming age; d. industrial workers advance the breakfast-time, on work days, compared to housewives, clerks, artisans and tradesmen, while the latter delay dinner-time as compared to the others; e. shiftwork breaks up the usual timetables interfering with at least one of the main meals, according to the different shifts (morning, afternoon, night); f. morning types anticipate meal and sleeping times in comparison to evening types, both while working and, above all, on free-days.
(8) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
(9) The proliferation of artisan roasteries across Britain has ballooned in the past five years, as coffee lovers have become more interested in ethics, and have developed a more discerning palate.
(10) They know it doesn't match with artisan values they are trying to make money out of.
(11) Improving our tax collection would allow artisanal mining to boost local development.” Whether it's Mexico's gold or Zimbabwe's diamonds, mining is riven with violence and business is complicit Read more Anor is also working on setting up a national gold refinery that will be responsible for certifying and hallmarking gold for export.
(12) The proportion of smokers increased with age, being the highest in the children of managerial and commercial classes or skilled artisans, and was strongly linked to the smoking habits of the parents.
(13) A lot of gins look like artisan gins, but they’re not really.
(14) Gin sales in the UK are expected to top £1bn for the first time this year as younger drinkers supplement their taste for vodka with a double shot from a new generation of artisanal distilleries.
(15) Marketing any product will only take an organisation so far.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vicki Hughes at work in the Redwood coffee house In much the same way that the craft beer phenomeneon has helped breathe some much-needed life into the dying pub trade, so it is that the independent or ‘artisan’ coffee shops appear to be reinventing the way people now take their caffeine.
(16) This was the beginning of the movement which led to the creation of the Union de Défense des Commerçants et Artisans (Udca), an organisation that spread through neighbouring departments to cover most of France and certain areas in Algeria.
(17) Research in the home care setting will thrive if it attracts more and more nurses with scientific skills similar to those identified by Sir Medawar: "Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans.
(18) I’ve heard all the complaints about how the Starbucksification of coffee didn’t keep artisanal coffee special – but that’s because it wasn’t about artisanal coffee at all.
(19) The group, whose shares have risen sharply since they were first listed in London in November 2014, was founded in 2005 to provide high-quality mixers for the rapidly growing market in premium spirits such as artisan gin.
(20) We’re seeing restaurants push the boundaries and, for the first time, PE is experiencing a foodie culture of food trucks, pop-up diners and local markets, such as the monthly Valley Market : an alfresco celebration of food, artisanal crafts and a great place to meet genuine PE people.
Boutique
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(1) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
(2) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(3) On a visit to Liverpool in November 2006 Thompson stayed in a trendy boutique hotel, The Hope Street hotel, spending just over £180.
(4) Adner was speaking of the boutique, Danish, high-end maker of audio and video products .
(5) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(6) This part of Paris has come to life again since Bercy’s historic wine warehouses were saved from demolition and converted into boutiques, bars and restaurants – and the Cinémathèque is the cultural heart, with its permanent collection, film festivals and exhibitions.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul’s Boutique, Beastie Boys, 1989 Suggested by: piscolahm Hip-hop group the Beastie Boys made their first appearance in 1986 and were immediately commercially successful.
(8) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
(9) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
(10) Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011, has helped transform Margate into an emerging destination for the arts , while new hotels, such as the Albion House in nearby Ramsgate , cater for visitors looking for boutique-style accommodation.
(11) Stay Ace Hotel (+1 212 679 2222, doubles from $95) is a cool, unpretentious boutique hotel in downtown Portland.
(12) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
(13) Ed Hamilton, 47, author of a blog and book, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel, said: 'The management would like to throw out all the long-term tenants, gut the place and turn it into a boutique hotel for rich tenants, charging $400 a night.
(14) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
(15) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
(16) A new independent boutique coffee shop may be benign in itself, but does it help usher in a new clientele to the area, even as a bridge-and-tunnel, just-visiting crowd?
(17) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
(18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(19) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(20) Shaded restaurants and boutiques of the south give way to glimpses of glass and steel through the trees, not least from the 52 floors of the World Trade Center, once the Hotel de México.