It has few frills and is relaxed, with communal tables and no tips, but the dishes (conceived by a chef who worked for 20 years at Berkeley's world-famous Chez Panisse) now have a national reputation.
Douglas also conceived of a new kind of ski, a twin-tip, on which you could go backward as well as forward, and in 1999 he persuaded Salomon, a French company, to design and manufacture it for him.
He rejects the get-rich gospel and boldface success tips advocated by his own book, which he conceived as the story of a self-made man's struggle to overcome hardship.
Spacelog would be a cool hack in any circumstances, but the fact that it was conceived and built in an isolated mid-Channel castle in 36 hours tips it over into the realms of awesome.
Bernard Doyle, a Boston lawyer, politician, and former mayor, and his late wife, Bernadette, conceived one son, Sullivan, and, failing to produce another, adopted two black boys, Tip and Teddy, who are twenty-one and twenty at the time of the snowstorm.
LOCAL TIP By all means do not bypass Kigali, Rwanda's stunningly well conceived, remarkably clean, exceptionally scenic and serene capital city.
These initiatives are just a tip of an iceberg of many multi-stakeholder partnerships that have been conceived and launched in Davos this year.
In a manner that is somehow both predictable and breathtaking, the novel tips its hand and we see all roads leading to the greatest unifying theory ever conceived by natural science.
K.Z conceived the project.
