MAKATI SHANGRI-LA HOTEL - A Place for those with Discerning Taste

Advantages: location, wonderful accommodations, delicious food
Disadvantages: expensive

...are in a hurry since you have to spend about two hours there for a meal. A full-course meal at Red may cost around Php 3,000. Another expensive place is the Japanese restaurant Inagiku. While the food there is delicious, I think the same quality can be enjoyed in other less expensive restaurants around the area. Makati Shangri-la is located in the heart of the Makati City Central Business District. Shopping and entertainment centers are everywhere so you would find a myriad of activities to indulge in while in the area. It is a few meters away from the bus stop and the Metro Rail Transit station and taxis can easily be hailed at the hotel or even along the road. Makati Shangri-la is highly-recommended for people with discriminating taste....

24kgold 15.09.2009 · Read review
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La Chope

Advantages: Great food, reasonable fixed price menu
Disadvantages: None

...On our recent trip to the Loire Valley Mr Tart and myself arrived in Tours quite late on our first night. We drove down to Tours from Paris. We were going to stop for something to eat on the way but in the end decided to make our way straight to Tours and get settled in the hotel and then find something close by. A couple of minutes from our hotel we came across this place and were really glad that we did. LOCATION: La Chope is located at 25 Avenue Grammont. Our hotel was on the same road so we just came across it. It is about a ten minute walk from Tours? old town. The restaurant doesn?t stand out and the sign is not particularly bright so make sure you look out for it. THE EXPERIENCE: La Chope (which apparently translates as the tankard) is actually a fish restaurant. I?m not really a fish person (ok, that...

tartlette83 18.09.2009 · Read review
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La Tasca (f) bar, meeting place

Advantages: enough food to instantly cure world hunger
Disadvantages: small places, like playing tetris with all the dishes

...afternoon and partying till late. No wonder they have some of the healthiest and longest living people in Europe. I was delighted when 'La Tasca' opened up in town. I actually thought it was a one off restaurant and was disappointed to discover it is one of a chain. So it goes, chain living is part of the English suburban lot. I will eat my hat if I find a decent restaurant in this town that is an original, but that taken into consideration it was always in my mind to visit La Tasca but I only got around to it on Friday night. My friend Jen and I both stuck for something to do, so why not check it out?? Good plan indeed. The place is a converted bank, and from the outside looks small, like one of those old fashioned family run places that made you feel like you were eating in someone's front room. I am not sure if this is deliberate, I am...

eljefe 16.02.2004 · Read review
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  La Senza: A Case of 'Bra-vo'?

Advantages: Reasonably priced bras and lingerie, excellent staff and services
Disadvantages: You may struggle to find your size

...?ll learn ? it?s not always a case of having lots of different styles and patterns to choose from, depending on your size, but for the majority of women, La Senza will be bra heaven; I can?t help but think that if you want a yellow bra with pink, purple and blue stripes on it, you?d be in the perfect place...apart from an opticians. In all of the La Senza shops, you?ll find that the different styles are separated into sections with the everyday pieces being together and the slightly dressier pieces being together. With that in mind, it?s easier to locate the type of bra you desire after a couple of visits to a La Senza store and the layouts, whilst sometimes a little cluttered to hopefully cater for all sizes, is fairly immaculate and well cared for, especially when it comes to finding your bra size; the majority of the rails I looked at were...

MizzMolko 28.07.2009 · Read review
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La Boqueria - Barcelona's Technicolour Market

Advantages: A colouful and compelling sight, pick up some tasty food
Disadvantages: You may not be able to take some of it home

...Situated just off Las Ramblas, Barcelona?s Boqueria (or more correctly Mercat de San Josep) market is one of the city?s most popular tourist attractions. I think it says a lot about the enduring attraction of food markets that the Boqueria is still so popular in spite of the fact that our supermarkets now stock excellent produce from all over the world and that air travel and border restrictions have made it more difficult to take fresh produce home from trips abroad. When I first visited the Boqueria I was filled with excitement at the array of colourful fresh produce ? fruit and vegetables, herbs, fish and shellfish, meats ? fresh and cured, bread, nuts and dried fruit ? on sale at the market but over time, as I have traveled more widely, "La Boqueria" has lost a little of its gloss. You?ll find the Boqueria quite easily just off...

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La Lanterna: a little place.

Advantages: Not too costly
Disadvantages: The menu could be bigger

...La Lanterna is a friendly little restaurant that is tucked away in Hanover Street. It would be easy to miss. The staff is friendly and I feel that always makes a difference. The prices are not to bad either, but then again, I would not expect to pay too much for pasta. The menu is really only a pasta menu with just a little added on. I would not go into the place expecting to enjoy a large, hearty Italian meal. Well, I did just that. I went in, sat down and was disappointed. The service was good. The waiters made the effort to attend to us. We hit them with the standard, yet awful, ?We are expecting somone else? but he might not show up.? They managed to deal with that without any bother. I recommend La Lanterna as a good place to take a client out for a business lunch. They can?t spend too much of your money and yet...

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la senza

Advantages: great selection
Disadvantages: n/a

...If i need to buy lingerie there is only one place that I go to and that is La Senza. La Senza is great and stocks everything from underwear, bras, slippers, nightwear and dressing gowns. They have great bra's im many different styles and colours that have matching underwear you will always find what your are looking for. They have the multiways bra's and the bra solutions too, which is great especially if you are planning on wearing say a backless dress for example. I have learnt over the years that you can get great offers in La Senza on there buy one get one free, or the buy so many items for a set price. Which is fantastic as you otherwse find that a few sets cost you over £50. I would also recommend that you try the bra's on as i find that i am a different size bra in each different style. The biggest problem i have is...

jo_field26 19.10.2008 · Read review
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La Haine - hatred breeds hatred

Advantages: Superb acting, engaging storyline
Disadvantages: Kassovitz is miscast as a skinhead

...WHAT IS IT: La Haine is a French film - shot in black and white and released in 1995 - directed and written by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is in French with English subtitles and is around 90 minutes long. The film centres around 3 young men living on an impoverished housing estate in France. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), a French Jew, is full of rage at the injustices he is subjected to and the constant state of tension between the police and local youths in the aftermath of riots. Said is a talkative Maghrebin (French but of Moroccan/Algerian/Tunisian/Libyan/Mauritanian descent) who shares Vinz's dislike of the police but tries to keep the peace between everyone. Hubert is an Afro-French boxer and drug dealer who is philosophical about the situation he sees around him even when his gym gets burnt down during the riots. He suspects Vinz may have...

jesperado77 29.07.2009 · Read review
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Grand Tour of LA!

Advantages: get to see lots in short space of time
Disadvantages: don't get much time in each place

...rushed and you didn't get enough time in places. The tour guide was very friendly and gave you lots of information and facts as you visited different areas. I felt that the tour was reasonably priced as you got to see so many areas. I am glad I took the tour as I never would have been able to find all the areas by myself that we went to. It did give you a feel for the area and I would recommend that someone do this tour to get their bearings of a place the first day they arrive and then they can explore by themselves afterwards. If you want to contact this tour company they have 24 hour lines (310)641-8114, (714)956-9595. From LA (800)438-1814, from Anaheim (800)750-8114, Fax number (310)641-1210. The website is www.viptoursandcharters.com or www.viptoursofcalifornia.com. If you want to email them the email address is infor...

DeniseKelly40 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Trading Places

Advantages: great fun for all the family
Disadvantages: none

...Director: John Landis. Producers: George Folsey Jr, Aaron Russo, Irwin Russon and Sam Williams. Writers: Timothy Harris and Herchel Weingrod Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliott and Don Ameche. Released in 1983 this comedy, starring the excellent Eddie Murphy, relies on the greed of humanity to bring onto the big screen a somewhat hilarious movie. **BRIEF PLOT** When Mortimer Duke, (played by Don Ameche) and his brother Randolph, (played by Ralph Bellamy) decide to place a rather strange wager to quench their boredom they don't care about the consequences to the victims involved. The wager comes to light when the brothers quarrel about how peoples backgrounds are what makes their futures. With their loyal and long time employee Louis Winthorpe the 3rd, (played by Dan...

blissman70 06.07.2008 · Read review
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