{"id":543,"date":"2008-12-13T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-12-13T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T15:32:57","slug":"the-search-for-the-most-expensive-cappuccino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"The Search For the Most Expensive Cappuccino"},"content":{"rendered":"

We began our search by checking out the Atlantis. It’s the hotel resort with the huge aquarium in the middle. <\/p>\n

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We walked around and saw a lot but as it turns out we only saw about 1\/10 of it. But we got a great cappuccino at the Brasserie Rostang. The croissants were so good with the orange peel marmalade I got a little barbaric.<\/p>\n

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But by following Beth’s example of how to act in a world-class resort such as this, I finally got it.<\/p>\n

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Now that’s a good cappuccino. Afterwards we enjoyed the sun for a while.<\/p>\n

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\nThen it was off for a little drive to Abu Dhabi to the Emirates Palace Hotel<\/a> where you can spend over $10,000 USD per night on a room if that’s your thing.<\/p>\n

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To build up our appetite for extravagance we decided to check out the exhibit of Saadiyat Island<\/a> architecture. It’s the new development that features a Cultural District with 6 commissioned buildings by the biggest name players in international architecture. The ones pictured below are by Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, and Tado Ando. I think my favorite is either Tado Ando’s or Jean Nouvel’s. They both really did something great with the opportunity. The others just did more of the same craziness. <\/p>\n

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OK. Now…<\/p>\n

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Presentation is good. What’s with the pretty box?<\/p>\n

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Nice.<\/p>\n

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Living the high life.<\/p>\n

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Now off to get our valet parked car…<\/p>\n

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And off to home where I had to get back to work for a little while to help pay for our cappuccino budget. <\/p>\n

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The Emirates Hotel charged about $12 per cappuccino, the Atlantis Brasserie only about $8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We began our search by checking out the Atlantis. It’s the hotel resort with the huge aquarium in the middle. We walked around and saw a lot but as it turns out we only saw about 1\/10 of it. But we got a great cappuccino at the Brasserie Rostang. The croissants were so good with … Continue reading “The Search For the Most Expensive Cappuccino”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}