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The French Laundry, a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant in Yountville, California. The Michelin Guides have been published by the French tire company Michelin since 1900. They were designed as a guide to tell drivers about eateries they recommended to visit and to subtly sponsor their tires, by encouraging drivers to use their cars more and therefore need to replace the tires as they wore out.
The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a restaurant and tiki bar in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel in Nob Hill, San Francisco, California.Named after the South Pacific nation of Tonga, this dining and entertainment venue opened in 1945.
Nob Hill is a luxury destination in San Francisco, owing to its numerous Michelin-starred restaurants, [12] boutiques, cultural institutions, art galleries, and historic landmarks. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The neighborhood is named after one of San Francisco's original "Seven Hills" and it contains the Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District (also known ...
Jul. 19—ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nob Hill's restaurant line-up will get a little bit bigger in early August with the opening of Mesa Provisions. The eatery, at 3120 Central SE, specializes in New ...
Top of the hill is considered to be the west end of Mendosa Avenue; there are two water tanks and a broadcast tower at the summit - behind a secured gate Gold Mine Hill [3] [35] [36] 679 ft (207 m) Diamond Heights: Grand View: 666 ft (203 m) Grand View Park; Golden Gate Heights: Heidelberg Hill [37] 250 ft (76 m) Golden Gate Park Holly Park ...
The Mark Hopkins Hotel was built by George D. Smith [1] on the site of the old Mark Hopkins mansion, which had burned down following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.The hotel was dedicated in 1926, and the penthouse suite was rented exclusively to Daniel C. Jackling, reputedly at US$1,250 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2023) per month, [2] until he moved to his house in Woodside in 1936. [3]
While at Charles Nob Hill, Perello was awarded the San Francisco Chronicle's Rising Star Chef honor in 2002, one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs in 2004, and James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef nominations in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Perello then took the helm at Fifth Floor and led the restaurant to a Michelin star in 2006.
Mining engineer and hotel investor George D. Smith purchased the Nob Hill site, removed the Art Association building, and began construction of a luxury hotel. The San Francisco architectural firm Weeks and Day designed the 19-story hotel, a combination of French château and Spanish ornamentation. The Hotel Mark Hopkins opened on December 4, 1926.