Sentences with phrase «mecca with»

The city is also a golf mecca with over 125 courses within the city limits or in the surrounding communities.

A dark conspiracy plots to consume Japan's pop - culture mecca with an army of synthetic vampires.

We heard it was a hipster mecca with an exploding vegetarian and vegan scene way back and its green credentials and continued commitment to sustainability made us even more excited to get to see the city for ourselves.

Oslo is a historical mecca with remnants of Norwegian culture at every street corner.

This place is a little surf mecca with the world renowned Anchor Point and plenty of other waves within walking distance.

Right in the center of Costa Rica's Pacific coasts lies Jaco Beach, a surfer's mecca with no shortage of attractions for travelers.

Ghirardelli Square itself is a shopping mecca with San Francisco artisan crafts, one - of - a-kind keepsakes and chocolates from the historic Ghirardelli factory.

Manila is also a shopping mecca with 3 of the 10 biggest shopping malls in the world — SM Mall of Asia, SM Mega Mall, and SM City North Edsa.

-- A cruising ground for yachts and other pleasure craft, which will only be enhanced by the development of a proposed international standard marina — A surfing mecca with oneof the world's most coveted top 20 waves a 10 minute speedboat ride away — Desert Point / Bangko Bangko — An excellent coral reef system for diving and snorkelling both on Gili Gede and the surrounding 15 islands.

It will be a shopping mecca with an indoor flea market, tea garden and restaurants, a theatre, library, fresh produce and a ticket office for river trips on an old 14m whaling boat.

Since 2008, the market has grown from a DIY experiment in a public - school parking lot to an indie shopping mecca with spin - offs around the borough.

In a spoof video, O'Malley, the former Democratic governor of Maryland, went down to New York's finance mecca with his guitar and panhandled for a few dollars.

For the first time in 32 medals — all accumulated after 1997 — De La Salle's wrestling team returned home to the Contra Costa County football mecca with a state gold in tow.

It makes sense then that we celebrate Ramadan (the month of fasting) with Eid and the pilgrimage to mecca with Eid and many of us do not celebrate Halloween (because of reasons above) or Christmass or Birthdays but many of us celebrate a slightly altered version of Thanksgiving (on Thanksgiving day) that focuses on being grateful to God and sharing a meal.

Resorts on the Mayan Riviera are remote self - contained Meccas with high security and watchful staff everywhere.

«Worth the Trip» highlights the nation's three top dance summer meccas with the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and Jacob's Pillow Dance, where I will be heading in August.

Not exact matches

«Southern California is really a mecca of small and medium sized companies, with lots of resources, especially talent.»

Outside the expansive windows lies the not - quite - bustling heart of downtown Palo Alto — a town that, along with nearby Menlo Park and the city of San Francisco, is a mecca for Arc» teryx vest — wearing VCs.

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.

After all, prior to the Great Recession, Alberta's industrial heartland looked poised to become an upgrading mecca, with new refinery projects expected to boost local production of oilsands crude by more than half a million barrels a day.

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.

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

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.

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

In 25 short years, Los Cabos has morphed from a sleepy sportfishing town with one government - owned nine - hole course to a genuine, albeit pricey, golf mecca, with more than a dozen championship courses open for play and more on the books.

One evening we went to Playa del Carmen, and while everyone else decided to experience the best the city had to offer, I found my mecca: a bar with live sports betting.

And although he would have loved to take his first trip to Henley, the mecca of rowing, in July, the famous regatta conflicted with the German championships.

Less than an hour outside of downtown Chicago, Rosemont has quickly become an entertainment, shopping and dining mecca that is perfect for a quick trip with your minis.

The projects — some already in various phases of engineering, others in early planning — could help boost Orland Park's status as regional retail mecca and connect the village with its neighbors, notably in Homer Glen.

Casting aside objections from Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio is plowing ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens as an affordable - housing mecca.

The natural history museum in London (my mecca) has this incredible structure called the cocoon, where you can chat with researchers at the museum.

Leading the all - natural smelling salts trend is Josh Beeler, long - time brow guru at Brooklyn's natural beauty mecca, SHEN, with the launch of his line VOLAR that includes three different blends of smelling salts.

We're also noticing established wellness meccas like Whole Foods Market making this shift toward high - vibe living at a lower price point with its new 365 brand that appeals to millennials looking to eat healthy on a budget.

The Muscle and Fitness model Rob Riches went to Gold's Gym — Venice, California, the mecca of bodybuilding, to meet with the guy that has four Mr. Universe titles and over 500 international fitness cover magazines.

Living in one of the worlds Meccas of wellness combined with my perspective as both a registered nurse and total health nut gives me a unique opportunity to share trustworthy holistic wellness knowledge with you!

The beauty mecca is packed to the brim with the latest and greatest in makeup and skin care!

When you visit showrooms in gorgeous marble buildings fitted with glass windows from floor to ceiling, or attend shows in 17th century grand palaces, you understand why it's the fashion mecca of the world.

It is a total mecca for inspiration and it came it handy for me yesterday when I hit a wall with styling my duck boots in Denver's winter wonderland (the arctic temperatures froze my brain cells!).

I spent the weekend in beautiful Santa Barbara with some lovely friends, and we had such a fun time hiking, playing tennis, exploring the «funk zone» (essentially a mecca for fish tacos and craft breweries), and soaking up the southern California sun.

This cushion foundation, popular in beauty mecca South Korea, ensures you'll get just the right amount of product with a sponge - like dispenser that gives you powdery, light, and long - lasting coverage.

The annual festival has become a stargazing mecca as every A-lister with a project to promote heads up north to push their film in style.

If you're not familiar, Spoonflower is a fabric printing business with a mecca of beautiful designs and patterns perfect for DIY projects but more specifically, waiting to be turned into Espadrilles.

New Orleans is a sports mecca, and what better way to connect with other sports fans than at a fun, packed game?!

Finding a romantic dinner spot in this culinary mecca is simple — from intimate cafes, walk up souvlaki stands, to trendy restaurants that are bursting with flavor, check out downtown London for plenty of options.

Whether you prefer bagels or cronuts, cheesecake or pizza pies, finding your ideal companion in this cultural mecca begins with online dating in New York City.

In this mecca of fashion, film, and killer fish tacos, local singles are looking to share the warm SoCal sun with not just anyone, but with the right one.

A tossup between oasis paradise and wasteland, or Eden and hellhole, this mecca turned ecological disaster of biblical proportions with its string of ghost towns and stubborn eccentric homesteaders, is the subject of this uniquely conceived documentary.

The logic for audiences was that with more time and space to navigate the program (whose slender catalogue fits in a back pocket), the packed houses and epic queues would be diffused to a level more commensurate with a holiday weekend of moviegoing than an arduous pilgrimage to cinephile mecca.

Among the films produced by Singh include: THE ROAD TO MECCA, with Kathy Bates; FATHER HOOD, with Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry; CAPTIVES, with Julia Ormond and Tim Roth; Tobe Hooper's THE MANGLER, with Robert Englund and based on a Stephen King short story; PALJAS (shot in Afrikaans, the first South African film to be selected for Oscar Consideration in the Best Foreign Language film category); and RED DUST, with Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, a drama focussing on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.