In Africa, the emphasis is on buying real estate, investment in clubs or restaurants, offshore investments, and use of agents to carry cash.
Laguna Beach's Surf & Sand Resort's executive chef, Lewis Butler, uses local seafood such as Catalina sea bass, Carlsbad black mussels, Santa Barbara spot prawns and spiny lobster caught just offshore from his Splashes restaurant.
WHEN the punishing surf churned up by an offshore storm washed away the restaurant deck where Margaret Meehan and Peter Curtis Jr. were to have their rehearsal dinner in a few short hours, the couple didn't panic.
In more sophisticated efforts at concealment, tens of billions of euros were routed through restaurants and construction companies, boutique offshore banks and large investment houses, even the Dutch flower market and the European chocolate trade.
Tourism and an on-again, off-again offshore natural gas boom have brought new restaurants, hotels and office buildings, but they haven't begun to dilute the city's old charms.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla .-- The first time Dave Rauschkolb staged a rally against offshore drilling with people holding hands across the beach outside his restaurant in Seaside, Fla., barely anyone noticed.
Via San Benedetto 32, + 39 080 424 1373, closed on Mondays, mintcucinafresca.com Trabucco di Montepucci, Montestrione, near Peschici This family restaurant is on the oldest of Gargano's trabucchi (offshore fishing platforms).
The only clear water is found several miles offshore at the "Relais of Devil's Island," a hotel and restaurant occupying the former guards barracks of the penal colony.
In beach towns west of La Libertad, like backpacker-friendly El Tunco — named for a pig-shaped rock just offshore, a favorite of local cliff-jumpers — seaside inns and restaurants are popping up.
One-dollar Katama oysters during happy hour at Hooked, a new restaurant in Oak Bluffs, went great with a pint of locally brewed Offshore Amber Ale.
