They spend a few nights in a San Francisco hotel and fill their days with meetings: a morning tour of GitHub's office, where the foyer is a full-size replica of the Oval Office; lunch with Barry Schuler, a former C.E.O. of AOL; an afternoon on Sand Hill Road, in Menlo Park, visiting the world's most valuable venture-capital funds; dinner with Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus at LB Steak.
For decades, the capital scoured state dinner invitation lists and Camp David visitor logs for clues to who was in and who was out.
Her original capital was $3.82, and dinner was often rice and spaghetti.
I was not surprised, therefore, to see Umu fingered last week by the latest edition of the Harden's restaurant guide, as one of four places in the capital where a standard dinner now costs a minimum of £100 a head.
Becoming a true porteno (resident of Buenos Aires) does not mean having to tango or milonga like a local, but it does mean embracing the true spirit of this fascinating, cosmopolitan, sexy capital, and never having dinner before 10 pm.
Exiled from power, the stalwarts of the Democratic Party's Washington establishment plot their return at dinner parties in the capital's tonier neighborhoods.
He and an aide were on their way to dinner in the capital.
I was at a spaghetti dinner in the capital, San Salvador, with veteran foreign correspondents who debated this: Who's the biggest crook ever?
The up-front membership fee gives Dinner Lab the capital they need to do things like rent commissary kitchens, pay employees, and buy generators and on-site ovens.
Harland Dorrinson, principal owner of the hedge fund Garrote Capital, hosted a black-tie dinner in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pay tribute to a mayor who, in Mr. Dorrinson's words, "put living in New York out of the reach of everyone except the deserving few".
