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Winner's Dinners - Just squeezing into the 'good' category
I said icily. This is an Orient Express hotel. If I'd asked Fausto Allegri at the group's Splendido in Portofino, I'd have been deluged with maps in half an hour. If I'd asked Patrick Debuire, reception manager of La Reserve de Beaulieu, maps
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Winner's Dinners - If anyone was staying calm, dear, it was me
favourite place, was sued by Orient Express, which owns the Cipriani hotel, because he used the name Cipriani for his London restaurant. I was a witness for Arrigo. I made the judge laugh three times. Arrigo lost; it cost about £10m,
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Winner's Dinners - Under the weather, but on top of the world
known him for years on the Orient Express - came over and said, "Mr Winner, we've changed our mind. There's to be a buffet this year."
What a magnificent event it was, massively enjoyed by everybody except, possibly, Mr Langlade. The food on
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Winner's Dinners - Sugar daddy
the grand PR lady for the Orient Express group of hotels and restaurants. She's quite something, Nadia: regal, witty, warm, wrote a book on her friend Maria Callas, been around, brilliant at dealing with Winner. She's as classy as the Orient
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Winner's Dinners - Monks move out, heaven moves in
jewel in the crown of the Orient Express group since 1985. The staff are beyond belief efficient, pleasant and welcoming. As near perfect as you’ll find. They’re all great characters.
The general manager, Ermes De Megni, is ever-smiling
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Winner's Dinners - That riviera touch
I will not let a jibe at the Orient Express people go unchallenged. They are my favourite hotel group. It is not American, Mr Irondelle should know that, and if it was, so what? It's a Bermuda-based company operated from London. They have a small
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Winner's Dinners - No place to hide
the wrong ones, This is not Orient Express-style management, but then it isn't an Orient Express hotel.
On the plus side, the chief concierge, Romano Scotti, is superb. The grounds and views are spectacular, the hotel has an attractive old
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Winner's Dinners - Station mastery
at it. It's a sort of Scots Orient Express which takes tourists around the Highlands. Two chefs from it walked by our window left to right and waved at me. I noticed other station signs saying Drochaid an Aonachain, which I was told means Spean
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Winner's Dinners - Saints be praised
while I greatly admire the Orient Express people who own La Samanna, I'd had a dreadful time at their hotel in Madeira. I was met at the airport by two managers, Bernard de Villele, who was leaving two days later, and the new American chap, from
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Winner's Dinners - The only Criterion
Reid's is part of the Orient Express group. Unlike the Splendido, however, it doesn't cost £375 a night for half-board. If money were no object, I would probably follow you to Portofino, but I will also be visiting Reid's again.
Leo
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