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Posted in Services on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
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1. Beware of the yellow monster in Bucharest
Oh, come on, admit how we love to hate the Bucharest cabbies, and vice versa. Here's another reason to adopt a feeling of your choice towards them: a new trend in the taxi ride receipt handling Let's suppose you cab your way from Plaza Romania to Amzei and the trip amounts to 7,8RON. Should you give the driver a 10RON bill, here's what's more and more likely to happen: he will dig through his pile of older receipts and he will give you one that's much higher than your 7,8RON ride. And that's it. No change and no explanation. If you ask what the logic is, the answer is:
"Oh, give me a break, you're going to deduct that expense anyway.
So you get no change, but get to walk away with a hefty receipt, unless you bitterly threaten the man. Your choice.
2. Vienna has Mozart, but Vienna International Schwechat Airport has free wireless
For those who travel and love the connectivity the Internet infers while in transit, that's worth gold.
The premises are small, thus inducing a natural blending amongst patrons.
Paris Commune, 99 Bank Street, New York 10014, Tel: 212.929.2803
Paris Commune website
particular resto for a great dinner, Pylos makes for a good candidate. A consul for Greek home cooking and a perfect location for interior design photography, the clay pot theme does wonders both on the ceiling where it hangs, and on the oven where it bakes the moussaka.
Pylos, 128 East 7th Street, between 1st Avenue & Avenue A, New York 10009, Tel: 212.473.0220
Pylos restaurant website
Oh, come on, admit how we love to hate the Bucharest cabbies, and vice versa. Here's another reason to adopt a feeling of your choice towards them: a new trend in the taxi ride receipt handling Let's suppose you cab your way from Plaza Romania to Amzei and the trip amounts to 7,8RON. Should you give the driver a 10RON bill, here's what's more and more likely to happen: he will dig through his pile of older receipts and he will give you one that's much higher than your 7,8RON ride. And that's it. No change and no explanation. If you ask what the logic is, the answer is:
"Oh, give me a break, you're going to deduct that expense anyway.
So you get no change, but get to walk away with a hefty receipt, unless you bitterly threaten the man. Your choice.
2. Vienna has Mozart, but Vienna International Schwechat Airport has free wireless
For those who travel and love the connectivity the Internet infers while in transit, that's worth gold.
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3. Fly Austrian Airlines Because they consistently provide a service second only to Japan Airlines. Because they serve whole-wheat spinach ravioli and salad with dressing that's gluten and lactose free. And because they elegantly bring the calorie balance to even by giving you the choice to have ice-cream for desert. Now that's sweet and precious. |
4. SoHo, New York Cross Houston Street, walk down on Broadway, and you're in SoHo. Shop at "LOUNGE" where Miss Sixty stuff looks almost outdated, and where you can listen to the live DJ, have coffee and wish you were a millionaire. Lounge, 593 Broadway, NYC 10012, Tel: 212.226.7585 |
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5. Paris Commune Somewhere between the Meatpacking District and the West Village, amongst brownstones, little shops, galleries and obscure experimental theatre establishments, there lies a perfect place to take a break and have a New York brunch dressed in Parisian air. Here the French toast is unique, rustic, huge and comforting. |
Paris Commune, 99 Bank Street, New York 10014, Tel: 212.929.2803
Paris Commune website
6. Pylos and the Greek pot Alphabet City is where the scene now happens in New York and the sight of pot, albeit Greek, is not a surprise. Play on words aside, if you're not set on a |
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Pylos, 128 East 7th Street, between 1st Avenue & Avenue A, New York 10009, Tel: 212.473.0220
Pylos restaurant website
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