Sentences with phrase «mecca in»

The Gulf Coast city of Tampa is repositioning itself as a cultural mecca in an attempt to boost retail spending in its downtown by residents and tourists alike.

Mass MoCA has always been about the vast and the outlandish, an unlikely arts mecca in a tired mill town that has also become an unlikely but very real success.

As Los Angeles began to blossom into a major art mecca In the 1960s, she served as Assistant Director at the Esther - Robles Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard.

Next spring, airberlin will be heading from Dallas — Fort Worth to Dusseldorf, an art and fashion mecca in the heart of Germany.

Tenth must see destination of the year 2011 Bali's sister island of Lombok «s most popular tourist destination is the Gili Islands (or just the Gilis), they came to the attention of the wider world as a backpacker mecca in the 1980s and 1990s.

It started to become a tourist mecca in the 1950s, with steady progress made in the 1970s as the mainland city of Cancun developed.

Once a sleepy fishing town, it morphed into a divers» mecca in the 1960's due to the proximity of the spectacular barrier reef, located only 1/2 mile offshore and visible from the eastern beaches.

Colorado is often considered the mecca in the United States for the prevalence of this disease.

by Angelo Muredda The intersection of the financial crisis and the North Dakota oil boom has turned Williston, ND into an unlikely mecca in the past few years.

Respectable Street, the live - music mecca in downtown West Palm Beach, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 23, with a free party that proves the club and...

Styx finds a rock mecca in Las Vegas.

From the 70s onwards, Whistler took on more and more of the things that classified the place as a town in its own right, though by this time there were so many settled and established families, plus a steady influx of visitors, that by the present day the area had grown into a dating mecca in its own right.

As if you needed a reason to hit up the certified shopping mecca in time to refresh your spring wardrobe, Bloomingdale's has just debuted the ultimate Insta scavenger hunt.

We are located in Kensington market, a culturally diverse food & clothing mecca in the heart of the city, which features some of the best vintage shops in Toronto.

The City Council is expected to approve the demolition of «Five Pointz,» a street - art mecca in Long Island City, and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer conceded «there was not a way to save the building.»

at Crossroads, Tal Ronnen's white - tablecloth all - veg mecca in Melrose's fancy - schmancy shopping district.

Owner, Iron Chef, and James Beard Award - winning cookbook author Tom Douglas offers up the best loved recipes from this incomparable bread and pastries mecca in The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook — featuring everything from breakfast to cookies and cake to soups and jams and more — demonstrating why the West Coast wonder has long been a favorite of foodies and celebrities, like Food Network's Giada De Laurentiis and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine.

There is a wholefood mecca in Manchester called Unicorn wholefoods, I don't live in Manchester but I know this place is the bee's knee's!!!

«Las Vegas has quickly become one of the preeminent culinary meccas in America and has been an excellent host to our first restaurant SUSHISAMBA which we opened seven years ago,» states Shimon Bokovza, CEO Samba Brands Management.

Although less hyped than surfing meccas in the States and Australia, Costa Rica offers surfers a number of excellent surfing environments.

Think of them as Metro Matchups ™ — places that link up to the nation's urban meccas in critical ways, but where you can buy a home for less than $ 350,000.

Not exact matches

Inspired by the original famous food mecca of the same name in Turin, Italy, chefs Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, and Joe Bastianich opened the first American Eataly near New York's Madison Square Park in 2010.

Kyo Ya isn't just any Japanese restaurant — it's an underground culinary mecca for those in the know, specializing in kaiseke meals (served during traditional tea ceremonies).

Baccarat is used as a measure of Chinese traffic to Las Vegas because it's an incredibly popular game in Macau — the world's gambling mecca and the only place in China where gambling is legal.

Once a manufacturing mecca, Ohio is still home to 24 Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble (pg) and Kroger (kr) in Cincinnati.

Just because a business is based in the entrepreneurial mecca of the U.S. doesn't mean it's above needing help.

Chinese President Xi Jingping's Hong Kong trip chilled visitation to Macau and may explain a late June slowdown in the gambling mecca.

After President Nixon visited Hangzhou in 1972, Ma's hometown became a tourist mecca.

On the discussion docket, per NASA's announcement on Zuckerberg's social media mecca, will be questions such as: «What is it like to live and work in microgravity orbiting the Earth?»

Lured by untouched beaches, cheap camping and ancient ruins, travellers soon spread word about this secret paradise, and Tulum grew into a New Age mecca where hippies came to practise yoga, experiment with hallucinogens and purify themselves in Mayan sweat rituals.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

Drive through the hills outside Kentucky whiskey meccas like Bardstown or Lawrenceburg and you'll see new, five - story aging warehouses sprouting like boozy mushrooms in the bluegrass.

Europe was a natural choice, and they set up a saddlery operation in Germany, which, Sabine says, is the mecca for this kind of equestrian product.

Even in the startup mecca of Silicon Valley, guns remain less regulated than startups, and early stage companies continue to have their feet tied together with red tape, bureaucratic practices, and strict government regulations that limit their potential for growth.

It also leads in processed foods (earning it the status of a snack food mecca), followed by the manufacture of computers and electronic equipment.

Meccas... Sorta like the Marine Corp wall in DC, or visits to Civil War battle Fields?

- Pilgrimage to mecca was orginally a pagan religious rite of peace from all the different pagan religions a week of peice and trade (making the person or tradesman who owned mecca the wealthiest man and most powerful man in the region no wonder mohommed wanted it back so much was a money thing).

The Muslim Educational Cultural Center of America, or MECCA, wants to build the new prayer center, school and recreation center in a residential neighborhood.

Blessed with year - round bounty, this agricultural mecca is home to some of the finest artisan purveyors in the country.

In my quest to scratch my fried chicken itch, I've ordered fried chicken at nearly every place in Portland that serves it, and while some turn out a very decent plate, not even Screen Door — Portland's refined Southern restaurant and brunch mecca, where the lines go around the block and the chicken and waffles are stacked to the ceiling — not even that rings that elusive Gramma B - worthy, chicken - fried bell for mIn my quest to scratch my fried chicken itch, I've ordered fried chicken at nearly every place in Portland that serves it, and while some turn out a very decent plate, not even Screen Door — Portland's refined Southern restaurant and brunch mecca, where the lines go around the block and the chicken and waffles are stacked to the ceiling — not even that rings that elusive Gramma B - worthy, chicken - fried bell for min Portland that serves it, and while some turn out a very decent plate, not even Screen Door — Portland's refined Southern restaurant and brunch mecca, where the lines go around the block and the chicken and waffles are stacked to the ceiling — not even that rings that elusive Gramma B - worthy, chicken - fried bell for me.

A 501 (c)(3) charitable organization founded in 2006 by Chef John Kaufmann and the late Chef John Castro in conjunction with the Chicago Chefs of Cuisine Association, Inc., the Chicago Culinary Museum and Chefs Hall of Fame was created to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Chicago chefs, food manufacturers, restaurateurs, and hoteliers, while promoting and celebrating Chicago as a culinary mecca.

Born and raised in Monterey, a California food and wine mecca, Kaela developed a passion for wine at a young age, passing her first sommelier exam at 22.

Growing up in Vancouver, my parents and I made regular trips to the Granville Island Public Market, the city's mecca for colorful produce, artisan foods and crafts, and the freshest seafood.

The original annual mecca for fiery food lovers is held the first weekend in March in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Toronto is a true mecca of Indian food and these spices can be found in any of the numerous Indian markets in the area.

Amiel shot back in no time with Chickie's Italian Deli, a few blocks from the cheesesteak meccas of Pat's and Geno's.

Being the sixth largest city in the country and being what I think, is a hot sauce / salsa mecca, you should bring your show here.

Chef Richman has honed an eclectic culinary point of view through a career journey that's taken him all over the United States, including stints in gastro - meccas like San Francisco and South Florida.

«Asheville is also very close to both Kentucky and Tennessee, meccas for those making spirits in the U.S.» says Bill Owens, founder and president of the American Distilling Institute.

Being the sixth largest city in the country and being what I think, is a hot sauce / salsa mecca, you should bring your show...