Mandarin Oriental New York launches Edible Schoolyard Picnics with celebrated chef Alice Waters

Edible Schoolyard Picnics with celebrated chef, author and “Edible Schoolyard” founder Alice Waters Edible Schoolyard was founded by Chef Alice Waters more than 16 years ago pioneering the notion that the best place to teach children about the connection between food, health and the environment is in schools. Beginning this spring through October 2012, the … Read more

The historic Café Royal London, now part of the Set luxury collection, to open in June

Café Royal to become five-star hotel in June The historic Café Royal on London’s Regent Street is to reopen as a 159-room hotel this June, and will form part of The Set, a collection of luxury properties including Hotel Lutetia in Paris. Home to the National Sporting Club for many years as well as being … Read more

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to open London Games and Paralympics

Queen Elizabeth, who celebrates 60 years on the throne this year, will open both the London Olympics and Paralympics, Buckingham Palace and organizers said to reuters. The monarch also opened the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh opened the 1956 Melbourne Games on her behalf. This, however, will be the … Read more

Two-thirds of luxury 2012 London Olympics packages still unsold

Around two-thirds of the most expensive corporate hospitality packages for the 2012 London Olympics have yet to be sold, although organisers said they were confident of finding buyers for the rest despite the gloomy economic outlook. Prestige Ticketing Ltd, the company with sole corporate hospitality rights inside the Olympic venues, said it had sold 30-40 … Read more