Mandarin Oriental Hotel coming to Dallas
Dallas Business Journal - 2:27 PM CDT Wednesday\

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2006/05/08/daily26.html?from_rss=1
www.mandarinoriental.com

How exciting. Great news for Dallas and Victory.

Uh,I believe Miami is on the South.

"Dallas to get the first Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the South "citykid


what about the one in miami, the most southern place in the US?

sorry micropundit.......restated the same thing

Welcome to the club and congratulations!...Here's your Orient-Express Hotels in America (the finest hotels in the world): The one in New Orleans won best hotel "in the world," in the past decade.

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http://www.orient-express.com/web/luxury/hotels/hotels_usa.jsp

I've been privileged to host the owner of the Charelston Place hotel a few times, let me just say, he knows what excellence is and is a very nice guy to boot. But Mandarin oriental is a different company than Orient Express. Both amazing hotels though.

"Dallas to get the first Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the South "citykid


what about the one in miami, the most southern place in the US?

Florida is the most southern geographically speaking. But culturally, Florida is the least southern out of the south. :runaway:

Florida is the most southern geographically speaking. But culturally, Florida is the least southern out of the south. :runaway:
The southern third of the state, yes. The rest of the state, however, is just as "southern" as the rest of the region, IMO.

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Mandarin Oriental, Dallas will open in the city’s dynamic new Victory Park development, a USD 3 billion, 75-acre, mixed-use project located in the heart of Dallas. The hotel will occupy the first eleven floors of the new 43-storey, 650-foot Victory Tower, the architectural centerpiece of Victory Park and one of the tallest residential structures in the state of Texas. In addition to the 120-room hotel and 90 luxury residences, Victory Tower will also house 75,000 square feet of internationally-recognised luxury retail shopping and 275,000 square feet of premier commercial office space.

The southern third of the state, yes. The rest of the state, however, is just as "southern" as the rest of the region, IMO.

I'd say more like the bottom 2/3rds of the state isn't southern. Tampa/St.Petersburg and Orlando on down isn't very southern.

The panhandle is actually "deep southern"...almost like an extension of Jaw-Jah, but is really the only culturally southern part of the state.
And that is only the top 1/3 of the state. :)

Florida is the most southern geographically speaking. But culturally, Florida is the least southern out of the south. :runaway:
eh. the say the same shit about the state of Texas. Citykid probably didn't know there was one in Miami or he just simply forgot.

But this is very good for Dallas. The W will open next month and the Ritz will open next year with the Mandarin opening 3 years from now. I believe they have another luxury resort hotel opening in downtown in 2008.

Uh,I believe Miami is on the South.

Miami is in the southeast, not the South. Big difference.

Miami is in the southeast, not the South. Big difference. :eek2:

Semantics, people. Either way, it's a great thing to get for the city.

Miami is in the southeast, not the South. Big difference.

yeah, um, people say Dallas is ini the southwest, not the South. So it goes both ways.

yeah, um, people say Dallas is ini the southwest, not the South. So it goes both ways.

I guess you could say that. However, the fact that the tv show Dallas could contain just about every characteristic of the modern South and cause no one to question it indicates that Dallas is Southern. Deep South? Definitely not, but it is Southern. I just wish you could get a damn glass of sweet tea in the city limits.

You probably can. You just have to visit south Dallas.

I guess you could say that. However, the fact that the tv show Dallas could contain just about every characteristic of the modern South and cause no one to question it indicates that Dallas is Southern. Deep South? Definitely not, but it is Southern. I just wish you could get a damn glass of sweet tea in the city limits. I thought I was the only one that asked for sweet tea! Apparently restaurants here in Dallas just dont have it and I'm not willing to pour a bunch of sugar packets into my tea.. too much work :)

^Too funny. That would also mean that someone in Dallas would have to admit they actually live in Texas!

I thought I was the only one that asked for sweet tea! Apparently restaurants here in Dallas just dont have it and I'm not willing to pour a bunch of sugar packets into my tea.. too much work :)

At least Splenda tastes something like sugar. That's a definite improvement over Sweet'n'Low. Here in Memphis, more and more restaurants are carrying sweat tea. About 2/3 of restaurants have it, and all the new fast casual (Moe's, Zaxby's, etc.) places have sweet tea. I asked for a glass of sweet tea at Pappadeax's in Uptown (a Louisiana themed place), and they looked at me like I was speaking in a different language. The place has a Louisiana theme for goodness sake!

yeah pappadeux's is all over Texas. good food

At least Splenda tastes something like sugar. That's a definite improvement over Sweet'n'Low. Here in Memphis, more and more restaurants are carrying sweat tea. About 2/3 of restaurants have it, and all the new fast casual (Moe's, Zaxby's, etc.) places have sweet tea. I asked for a glass of sweet tea at Pappadeax's in Uptown (a Louisiana themed place), and they looked at me like I was speaking in a different language. The place has a Louisiana theme for goodness sake!
Pappadeax's is a Houston based Resturant.
Here in Bryan-College Station, TX you can get sweet tea any where. Thats the only tea I drink. Chick-Fil-A has the best sweet tea of all the fast food places.

I like that rendering.

Here's a better rendering.
http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10072