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Article: Palm Beach is on sale - discreetly ; If you go . . . If you go . . .
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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PALM BEACH, Fla. - "There's no one here!" whined an intensely
tanned older woman into her cellphone, as she waved her cigarette
feebly at a persistent fly. It was breakfast time on the flowery
terrace of Cafe Boulud, at the Brazilian Court hotel, where the
ratio of servers to guests was a healthy 3 to 1. While her date
yelled into his Blackberry, she paced in slow, irregular laps around
the courtyard as her creme fraiche omelette congealed in the sun.
Judging by their New York accents, the couple appeared to be
snowbirds. They had arrived earlier in an old white Rolls Royce,
declaring to the valet that they had decided to breakfast out.
She was right. The hotel was next to deserted on a ...