Maxim's

The agreement gives Seattle-based Starbucks 100% ownership of the 250 stores it has run with Hong Kong-based Maxim's in the provinces of Guangdong, Hainan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei, as well as the province-level municipality of Chongqing, Starbucks said.

Starbucks Tightens Focus on China Laurie Burkitt 2011

The deal also gives Maxim's full control of 110 Starbucks in Hong Kong.

Starbucks Tightens Focus on China Laurie Burkitt 2011

New Year's Eve was no exception, even if she were not going out to Maxim's or Taillevent in Paris, where an entrance gown was "required."

Vicky Tiel: Elizabeth Taylor Caviar Sandwiches - Perfect for New Year's Eve! Vicky Tiel 2011

The first three-star Michelin establishment to open a restaurant in a hotel was Maxim's in 1969.

A Perfect Dinner Pairing Bruce Palling 2011

New Year's Eve was no exception, even if she were not going out to Maxim's or Taillevent in Paris, where an entrance gown was "required."

Vicky Tiel: Elizabeth Taylor Caviar Sandwiches - Perfect for New Year's Eve! Vicky Tiel 2011

Mr. Norwich saw Maurice Chevalier's first performance after the liberation of Paris, when the star appeared unannounced in the Maxim's scene of "The Merry Widow" to test if audiences would boo him as a collaborator.

Memoir ROBERT MESSENGER 2010

Then there is the hustling entrepreneur Tom Aziz Ansari, looking to pitch a new body spray to the inventor of Blackout, "an ether-based perfume … and one of Maxim's Top 100 Ways to Trick Someone into Sex."

Weird and Wonderful Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

But the customers who have the time to fly to Paris to sit through shows, lunch at Maxim's and visit designer ateliers for multiple fittings are few and far between these days.

Is Ready-to-Wear the New Couture? Meenal Mistry 2011

She and her fellow sleeper agents received honors this week from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev -- but she's the only one on the cover (lingerie, garters, gun) of Maxim's Russian edition, which heralds her for doing "more to excite Russian patriotism than the Russian soccer team."

This just in...: Gary Condit; Anna Chapman; Kim Novak The Reliable Source 2010

New Year's Eve was no exception, even if she were not going out to Maxim's or Taillevent in Paris, where an entrance gown was "required."

Vicky Tiel: Elizabeth Taylor Caviar Sandwiches - Perfect for New Year's Eve! Vicky Tiel 2011