One only has to sit perched on the second floor terrace of the Aquara, chef James' first class restaurant inside the Dubai Marina Yacht Club -- overlooking the water dotted with multi-million dollar boats and framed by the impossibly high buildings of the area -- to understand why.
Airports featured first-class restaurants; airline cabin service featured crystal stemware and quality china.
A dusty placard leaned at the foot of a billboard advertising "first-class restaurants" and "luxury apartments".
Kneeling in the dirt to discover the perfect chardonnay cluster of grapes is satisfying, but one need not abandon first-class restaurants to do it.
And the places people would be walking to, or at least taking convenient public transportation to, are part of the appeal -- first-class restaurants, museums and parks.
The Port Authority and its advisers at Cushman & Wakefield are pitching it as the most modern addition to the city's skyline, with first-class restaurants and an observatory at the top that will attract business leaders and tourists alike.
Sommeliers are on the front line of customer service and profit generation in first-class restaurants where the price of a bottle of wine can easily dwarf any sum spent on food.
Or you can venture out to one of The World's four first-class restaurants, see a film ( Titanic? ) at the cinema, and rid yourself of that bothersome spare cash in the casino.
From surfing and biking to abseiling, Cape Town has an ideal outdoorsy lifestyle to go along with its first-class restaurants, great music scene and cosmopolitan streetscapes.
As the most populous city in the United States, New York has plenty to offer in terms of first-class restaurants, world-famous museums and far-out fashions.
With its first-class restaurants and fantastic museums, Paris is a world capital of culture and epicurean delights, but the nearby regions have their own charm and culinary surprises worth exploring.
