In a brief interview Friday, as he left a breakfast with local bankers in the Bronx, Mr. Bloomberg said he strongly opposed new restrictions on where the city could put its deposits, which can be as much as $7 billion.
The shapely leg of crystal startled patrons at Le Bergamot as they left with breakfast croissants.
Bono had just left a breakfast talk with Al Gore on the subject of climate change…Scoble and I arrived early and took the best seats up front and center.
With that, he left the breakfast nook and headed for his study, pulling out his cell phone and punching in the dry cleaner's number.
We left before breakfast.
After an early French-toast breakfast we left behind along with the last chance for television and telephones all personal belongings other than a small overnight bag and a cadre of fellow guests who fancied cattle-wrangling over mountain riding.
"Anna's graduating in a month," I scolded myself, "now, get up and fry her a lousy egg!" "No thanks, Mom, we're leaving early to have breakfast with our friends," Anna told me, her hand held out in hopes that cash would land in it.
What most young women are left with after seeing "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a desire to live in Manhattan and be madcap.
Only the most patient readers will get a whiff of Macaulay's dinner table (he favoured lobster curry and champagne) or a passing glance at his manners (his habit of reading Thucydides before breakfast left its pages flecked with blood from his barber's razor).
It's chaos: no one knows which bus they're supposed to be on or when it leaves, but I remember a breakfast with locals, at 5.30am, of sweet chai stewed to hell under a horrible milk crust, with flatbread and rice probably leftover from the night before – yet all delicious.
