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Iraq Business
2 days ago
- Business
- Iraq Business
Italian Kitchen Company opens Showroom in Baghdad
By John Lee. Italian kitchen company Cesar has opened a new showroom in Baghdad. The new facility is run by Hamandi Interiors, founded in 1987 by Ali Hamandi, and now managed by his sons, Hussein and Ahmed. (Source: Cesar) Tags: Baghdad, Cesar, featured, Hamandi Interiors, Italy
San Francisco Chronicle
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
The Bay Area's most notable 24-hour restaurant is also a casino
Each week, critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan shares some of her favorite recent bites, the dishes and snacks and baked goods that didn't find their way into a full review. Want the list a few days earlier? Sign up for her free newsletter, Bite Curious. What a delight Café Colma, located inside Lucky Chances Casino, is. Where else can you get an Irish coffee and fettuccine alfredo (the real, wonderfully psychotic order of one of my dining companions) alongside Mongolian beef and all-day breakfast? Where else can you chase an order of adobo chicken with a banana split and a 3 a.m. game of Pai Gow? No offense to that alfredo, but the Filipino dishes are the highlights here. The sinigang with pork ribs is particularly noteworthy, bracingly sour and fortifying. I finally made it to Bar Shoji, the nighttime incarnation of the café behind the matcha einspänner craze; I've been dying to go since Cesar put it on our Now List. Does chef Intu-on Kornnawong's halibut ceviche ever sing. It's the dish that features the most overt Thai flavors — Kornnawong was formerly the chef at Jo's Modern Thai in Oakland — and you'll smell the lemongrass before the dish even hits the table. There's plenty of spice, and the nori rice crackers provided for scooping add delicate crunch. Deep in the Richmond District, Butter Love Bakeshop is not the place to go if you're seeking the immaculately laminated and shellacked goodies you might see in the window of a Parisian patisserie. Its crumbles, pies and doughnuts are rustic, even a little visually rough around the edges, but the pastry is nonetheless terrific. Case in point, the mega buttery, flaky puff pastry swaddling a full-sized hot dog and shredded cheese. Sure the frank was a little well done on the ends where it poked out of its pastry casing, but I can't imagine a better hand-held snack to take to the park or the beach. Chase it with a slice of seasonal fruit crumble.
Iraqi News
4 days ago
- Business
- Iraqi News
Italian kitchen brand Cesar debuts in Baghdad
Baghdad ( – Italian kitchen manufacturer Cesar has entered the Iraqi market with the launch of its first monobrand showroom in Baghdad, developed in collaboration with Hamandi Interiors. The opening marks the brand's initial step into one of Western Asia's rapidly expanding design and interiors sectors. Operating under the name Cesar by Hamandi Interiors, the new space features a selection of the company's signature collections, including Tangram, N_Elle, and Maxima. Hamandi Interiors, a well-established provider of premium furniture in Iraq, brings extensive local expertise to the partnership.
Daily Mirror
04-08-2025
- Daily Mirror
Brits hate holidays without their dogs - and say they'll CANCEL plans if not pet friendly
Brits have revealed their biggest decision when going on holiday is whether they should bring their pets. New research shared that some owners cancel their holidays altogether due to the guilt New research has revealed that Brits hate going on holiday without their dogs - and even consider cancelling their plans if the vacation isn't pet friendly. Dog food brand Cesar has shared that 76 per cent of owners wish they could take their furry friends on holiday. Sadly, accommodation suitable for pets isn't as easy to come by as you may think - with more than half ( 53 per cent ) admitting that they struggle to find something pet-friendly. Owners said they feel guilty about leaving their dog's back at home, with 55 per cent switching or axing their original plans. In an ideal world, people said they would take their dog somewhere which allows them to roam free. It comes as children 'chase sheep off cliff' before turning on shocked passers-by. According to the research, visiting a beach or allowing dogs to swim in the sea was viewed as a dream itinerary at 51 per cent. Meanwhile, a countryside hike or forest walk came in at 43 per cent, a dog-friendly road trip was ranked at 41 per cent. A stay in a cosy cabin or cottage was listed at 34 per cent, without forgetting the very important playdate with other dogs at 28 per cent. To help those who want to holiday with their hound, Cesar has teamed up with TripAdvisor to launch the Ulti-mutt Bucket List Dog Travel Guide. It includes pet-welcoming accommodation and experiences that humans and their four-legged friends can enjoy together. Stephen Judson, Senior Principal Client Partner at TripAdvisor said: 'We're already the go-to for millions of travellers looking for trusted recommendations. By collaborating with Cesar, we're helping even more people feel confident about travelling with their dogs. From finding the perfect dog-friendly cottage to discovering that beach café where your pup gets their own little treat, we want to take the guesswork out of planning and help make holidays better for dogs and humans alike.' Apart from accommodation, owners face a number of challenges when travelling with their pet including issues with transport ( 35 per cent ) and dogs getting stressed or anxious (30 per cent). Even the packing stage poses challenges, with 60 per cent of owners having forgotten a vital item for their dog, such as poo bags (42 per cent ), food or water bowls (29 per cent), enough meals (26 per cent) or their dog's favourite toy (25 per cent). To help deal with dog-related holiday stress, Dr Tammie King, Pet Behaviourist at Waltham Petcare Science Institute, has several top tips to ensure both owners and hounds enjoy their time away from home. 'Get your dog used to being in the car when stationary by feeding favourite treats or a meal, then slowly building up the journey duration before you commit to a long trip,' she says. 'Familiarity helps reduce travel-related stress.' Explaining how to pack for your pet she adds: 'Keep a checklist of your dog's key items in a notebook or on your phone to make prep stress-free. Don't forget comfort items like their bed or favourite toy, and ensure you bring enough food and water, as well as bowls, and any prescription medication.' It's also a great idea to keep microchip details up to date and have an ID tag with your contact details attached to their collar. If a dog goes missing in an unfamiliar place it will be much easier for others to return your hound home safe and sound. Most important though is to choose your destination wisely - you need a holiday spot with secure outdoor spaces for walks and pet-friendly facilities. If you need a helping hand to choose where to go, you can find top-rated UK dog destinations, and find travel tips here.
San Francisco Chronicle
08-07-2025
- San Francisco Chronicle
The hot spots we omitted from our guide to new Bay Area restaurants
I'm back from vacation — many thanks to fellow-Daytrip-fangirl Cesar Hernandez for subbing in for me last week — and a highlight of my trip was not taking a single food photo over the course of six days. When you're a restaurant critic, logging off means leaving your phone in the hotel room. Cesar and I are hitting the ground running this week with the launch of a new guide that we hope will prove useful to the most intrepid diners among you. It's called The Now List: 25 Bay Area Restaurants of the Moment, and we'll be updating it quarterly. What can you expect? Each of the entries on the list will have opened within the past 12 months, and at least one of your critics will have verified that it's worth a visit. There's a tension with lists like this, one that is far from new. In the early 20teens, there was much chatter about the impact food blogs were having on the 'proper' timing of restaurant reviews, which in the pre-internet era might run six months after a grand opening. In a 2010 piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, Robert Sietsema, then the seasoned critic for the Village Voice, wrote that 'a critique written months after a place open[s], no matter how much fairer and more complete, now seem[s] anachronistic.' Three years later in Slate, Luke O'Neil argued that restaurants should be treated like books or films, subject to review on opening night. Julia Kramer, then a critic for Time Out Chicago, pushed back, arguing that waiting at least a month before a first visit provides needed critical distance from 'the cloud of hype — including hype that I/TOC may have had some role in creating.' Fifteen years later, my editors and I are still having these debates. What is fair to restaurants? What is fair to diners? How do we continue to be part of the conversation when influencers and other news outlets that don't employ restaurant critics are posting quasi-reviews within days of opening? I recently watched a social video from The Almanac, a local news site that serves the Peninsula. Its food editor reviewed the new Menlo Park restaurant Yeobo, Darling, on opening night, and it was a mostly negative assessment. 'I don't want to be too quick to judge,' she said at the video's close, 'so I'd recommend giving it a few months to get itself in the groove before checking it out.' Knowing the impact a negative review can have on a small business, as a journalist, why not take that advice and give it, if not a few months, at least a few weeks before weighing in? This is a rhetorical question I of course know the answer to. Readers and viewers are hungry for intel on the hottest new restaurants, and so the faster a writer can drum up an opinion, the better. But what is that opinion worth if it's based on a single visit on opening night? Something, surely — but, biased though I am, I still think there is greater value in a review that is grounded in multiple visits over the course of weeks or even months. And so here's what you can expect from the Chronicle's restaurant coverage: My food reporter colleagues Mario Cortez and Elena Kadvany will continue to publish reported stories about new restaurants. Although these articles may contain descriptions of the space and menu items, they are not reviews. Cesar and I handle those, and we generally wait at least three weeks and often longer before visiting a new restaurant. We pay two subsequent calls, sometimes only one if the price is prohibitive. In certain instances where we think an establishment is of interest to our readers but probably not a candidate for a full review, we might visit sooner, as in the case of the Jagalchi food hall. And now — the Now List. All my blathering is context for why you'll see some potentially surprising omissions. Yeobo, Darling isn't on there. Bijou isn't either, nor Carabao. These aren't slights; they simply haven't been open long enough for us to visit. Of all the hit/heat/hot lists, the Chronicle's Now List will never be the most trendy. But we do think it's the most well-considered, and I hope you'll take a look. You're reading the Bite Curious newsletter.
