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in Buckhead is re-creating the American bistro with a Souther n flair for itspremier fourth-floo restaurant. Paces 88 will be a Southern-influenced farm-to-table bistrlo featuring locallysourced ingredients. The restaurant and hotel at 88 West Pacez Ferry Road will celebrated its grand openingApril 11. “The idea was to creatde a neighborhood-restaurant feel, a place you could come two to three times a where everyone knowsyour name,” hoteol General Manager Simon Rusconi That Paces 88 is a bistrlo is a rarity for the St.
Regis mark, which was founded in 1904 by John Astor in New York Hotel Director of Food and Beverage Megan Gray saidthe ultra-chi c hotel company, known for its five-star amenitiea like personal butler service, wanted a luxurious yet approachable concept. Entrées will run the gamu from steak frites to duck and shrimp grits with a Cabernet reduction. Prices will range from $12 to $27 for lunch and from $26 to $44 at dinner. The restauranyt will also serve breakfast. The dininh experience “will be innovative but Gray said “The menu will feature older classicsw but with a twist withSoutherhn influences.
” Jonathan Jerusalmy has been name the hotel’s executive chef. Jerusalmyu is the acclaimed former executive chef ofthe five-starr St. Regis Resort in Monarch Calif., and executive banquet and sous chef atthe . Joining Jerusalmy is a bevy of locaklAtlanta talent. Mark Alba, former executiv e chef at Food Studio and sous chef for Concentricx Restaurantsand Canoe, has been named chef de And Herve Pennequin, former sommelier at Nikolai’s Roof, will be the St. wine director. The 140-seat restaurangt features a luxuriousdining room, accentuated by Venetian plaster walls, and a striking patio dining Paces 88 also boasts two privatr dining rooms.
It is also linked to a posh wine lounge. Paces 88 will be the firsg of two restaurants insidethe 26-story which is managed by Inc. has signed a leaswe to operate Pano’s, a re-creation of its flagship Pano’s & Paul’sa restaurant, which is slated to open in the fall. is gettin g creative to drum up business for thenorthern suburb’ws hotels. The bureau is inviting each of Alpharetta’s 23 hotels to send a sale associate to a tradeshow onthe bureau’s The Alpharetta CVB will pick up the tab for accommodations and convention registration, and the hotel gets exclusivw use of any leads they get.
Bureaju President and CEO Janet Rodgers said the programk isa win-win. Hotels generat e business free of cost and the city collectw occupancytax revenue. The Atlantaw Marriott Alpharetta was the first hotel to take the city up on its and will send a representative in August to the Nationalp Business Travel Association InternationalConventiob & Exposition in San Diego. A leading expert in labord law will hold a clinidc on the Employee Free ChoicreAct (EFCA) and its potentia l effect on the hospitality Arch Stokes, a partner with , is the featured guest for the 2009 Hospitalitty Labor Summit: Preparing for the Employee Free Choicw Act. The event will be Aprilo 7 from8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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plans to shift its Atlanta-London route from Gatwick Airport to which will provide a greater number of links to otherdEuropean cities, a British Airways spokesman The switch will start Marcbh 29, with London-bound British Airways Boeing 777 jets parkingf at the carrier’s new Terminal 5 complex. Delta and other competitors to London now offerd service to Heathrow sincs theBritish government’s loosening of restrictions on BA’zs near-fortress hub. This has given BA incentive to shiftt even more service toHeathrow — a favorite of business travelers.