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“Gitane” refers to a gypsy woman, and San Francisco’s Titans Restaurant and Bar captures the free-spiritedness perfectly with its bold mishmash of styles from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s Artwork from Turkey and the United Kingdom sit alongside photographs by Nazif Topcuoglu on hand-printed wallpapers.

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Don’t settle for mere hotel rooms when you can have your private pool villa on a secluded beach. Anantara Phuket, set to complete by end-2008, is located on a secluded beach in Phuket’s Mai Kao, with 83 villas, each with a pool ant beautifully landscaped garden. The Anantara is known for it! string of upscale hotels in Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, and rnore recently Dubai. (more…)

Fans of luxury hotel chain Thompson Hotels can now live permanently in designer luxury at Smyth Tribeca, which has 15 condominium apartments besides 100 hotel rooms. The apartments, known as Smyth Upstairs, are located at the top of the 13-story building, which will also house a cellar bar and a restaurant.
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While tinkering with Belvedere Hotel’s design, Rockwell Group took a cue from the nearby Aegean Sea and the Mykonos region, incorporating similar materials and forms in its revamp of Matsuhisa restaurant and its design of the new Belvedere Hotel Restaurant and Bar. The former is nova a wonderland of bougainvillea vines with panels of painted cherry blossom trees, illuminated by cast glass balls.

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If you’re a food connoisseur who appreciates a fusion of cuisines, you’ll be pleased by the menu at Dozo. Located at Valley Point Shopping Centre, Dozo is a one-of-a-kind modern Japanese concept that offers a multi-course ‘degustation’ menu, offering the best of Japanese, French and European cuisine.

While most ‘degustation’ menus features set courses, Dozo presents diners with a choice of dishes for each course. Pick from an extensive selection to create your own lavish six-course lunch ($38.80) or sumptuous seven-course dinner ($58.80). If you prefer to stick to one or two dishes, an a la carte menu is available.

The ‘degustation’ menu features quality, fresh ingredients and changes seasonally. All dishes are presented on Japanese black-and-white porcelain for an lkebana-inspired feel.
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The best thing about dining in a hip location is that you immediately feel hip too. And that’s exactly how we felt when we stepped in for a meal at Seven On Club Modern Mediterranean and Churrasco on, well, Club Street. Sit in the al fresco area - the largest along that stretch - and take in the aroma of Mediterranean food, and imagine that you’re actually dining in some posh joint down the French Rivieria.

In partnership with the famed Brazil Churrascaria on Sixth Avenue, the restaurant features a comprehensive menu coloured with culinary delights from southern Europe. Diners can sample flavours from the south of France, Italy and Spain, with modern interpretations of these cuisines, thanks to executive chef Jason Lee. With almost 20 years of experience in Europe and several French and Latin American restaurants in Singapore, he has now lined up a menu that has something for the discerning palate.
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