Macy’s raised its expectations for the year and reported the first increase in same-store sales since 2022 after the department store chain intensified its focus on modernizing stores and improving the customer experience.
Comparable-store sales are considered a good barometer of a retailer’s health and, for the last three years, they had been been a reminder that the storied department store chain had a long way to go.
Macy’s reported an 0.8% increase in comparable sales. Industry analysts, who had expected a 0.5% decrease, were caught off guard by the swing and the company’s shares rocketed 19% higher Wednesday. They remain negative for the year, however.
The reversal in comparable-store sales underscored how Macy’s campaign to improve customer experience and the merchandise on its shelves has enticed shoppers to buy even as Americans as a whole grow more cautious about spending as President Donald Trump’s trade war raises economic anxiety.
Macys is grappling with an uncertain economic backdrop and higher costs, particularly because of the tariffs, and said Wednesday that it even though customers have proven resilient, they remain choosy about what they are buying, and executives are usure how tariffs will affect spending for the remainder of the year.
We’re celebrating the second quarter but were being prudent in our guidance for the third quarter and the remainder of the year because we want to see how the tariff environment plays out in totality, Macy’s CEO Tony Spring told investors during a conference call on Wednesday.
The company said in May that it was diversifying the origin of its imports and pulling items when the math doesnt work.
Spring told analysts that the company is trying to take a surgical approach” when it comes to price increases. The department store has already raised some prices, though Spring did not specify where. He noted in some cases, it has had to cut back on orders on items where it raised prices.
We’ve tried to be really thoughtful about what categories can bear the cost and the increases and where weve had to negotiate a little bit harder, he said.
Spring said the approach by Macy’s, which also owns upscale Bloomingdales and the cosmetic chain Bluemercury, of running different chains that cater to different types of shoppers, has been an advantage. The company is not as reliant on one product category or one consumer sector, he said.
Roughly 50% of customers at the Macy’s has a household income of over $100,000, and for Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury, there’s a larger percentage of shoppers with household incomes over $150,000, Spring told The Associated Press on Wednesday. But he said while the lower income segment spent less, the difference wasn’t sizeable.
And tariffs may affect prices broadly.
About 20% of the department store’s products came from China at the end of its last fiscal year, according to Macy’s. Private brands sourced approximately 27% from China, down from 32% last year.
Macy’s reported net income of $87 million, or 31 cents per share, for the quarter ended Aug. 2. That compares with $150 million, or 53 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings were 41 cents a share, well above the 19 cents per share estimated by FactSet.
Sales fell to $4.99 billion from $5.09 billion in the year-ago period. Analysts expected $4.7 billion, according to FactSet.
Including its licensed businesses, comparable sales rose 1.9% for all of its stores including its licensed businesses.
The retailer has closed unprofitable stores while investing heavily in modernizing Macy’s locations, and that appears to be working. Macys first 125 revamped stores achieved comparable sales growth of 1.4%, surpassing the 1.2% gain for all Macy’s locations.
The company has been adding more customer service in the fitting areas as well as the shoe department. It’s also been trying to differentiate its luxury business from its rivals by adding exclusive merchandise
For the year, Macy’s raised its earnings per share forecast to a range of $1.70 to $2.05, up from $1.60 to $2.
Macy’s also expects sales between $21.15 billion and $21.45 billion in 2025, up from $21 billion to $21.4 billion.
Wall Street has been projection per-share earnings of $1.79 on sales of $21.18 billion for the year, according to FactSet.
By Anne D’Innocenzio, AP retail writer
C-SPAN said Wednesday that it had reached a deal to have its three channels air on YouTube TV and Hulu’s live television feed, ending a dispute that had led to a revenue squeeze for the public affairs network in the cord-cutting era.
The network said the streaming services would pay the same fee as cable and satellite companies, roughly 87 cents a year per subscriber, and that C-SPAN would continue its no-advertising policy on television.
Congress involved itself in the issue, passing a resolution this spring calling on the services’ parent companies Alphabet for YouTube and Disney for Hulu to add C-SPAN to their programming mix. Because congressional sessions and hearings represent a big portion of C-SPAN’s programming, the politicians faced diminished airtime without a deal.
At its peak a decade ago, C-SPAN was seen in some 100 million homes with television. The number of homes paying for TV has since dropped to some 70 million, with roughly 20 million of those consumers now getting television through services like YouTube and Hulu, and they weren’t showing C-SPAN.
C-SPAN said its revenues had dropped from nearly $64 million in 2019 to $45.4 million in 2023.
We are proud that this agreement will give millions more Americans access to our unfiltered coverage of the nation’s political process, said Sam Feist, C-SPAN’s CEO.
David Bauder, AP media writer
Macy’s is coming up for air, topping earnings estimates and delivering the best comparable sales jump in 12 consecutive quarters.
With $4.8 billion in net sales, the retail company exceeded the company’s guidance, raising its full-year financial guidance after cutting it earlier this year, the company announced in its second quarter earnings report.
In addition to is namesake brand, Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury, both owned by Macy’s, also saw comparable sales growth for a 4th and 18th consecutive quarter respectively.
Our performance highlights the advantages of being a multi-brand, multi-category, omni-channel retailer,” Macy’s Inc. chairman and CEO Tony Spring said of the report.
Macy’s sales announcement is already well received among investors, with the company’s shares seeing a 13% uptick in premarket trading, and is still up by 17.% at the time of publishing.
Macy’s ‘Bold New Chapter’ is working
Facing years of slipping sales, Macys rolled out a turnaround blueprint last February designed to steady the retailer by focusing on store closures and modernizing existing operations.
The turnover plan included the announced closure of 150 “unproductive” Macy’s locations, and the expansion of the Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury brands through 45 new locations, both to be completed through 2026. Since the announcement, Macy’s has already shut down 64 stores.
Our teams achieved better than expected top- and bottom-line results during the second quarter, driven by our strongest comparable sales growth in 12 quarters, reflecting the strong performance in Macys Reimagine 125 locations, Bloomingdales and Bluemercury, Spring said.
The company’s raised guidance is betting on the Bold New Chapter initiative to “continue to gain traction” as it has already benefitted the retailer.
“The substantive, enterprise-wide improvements across our business, with a strong focus on customer experience, give us further confidence that our Bold New Chapter initiatives can drive sustainable, long-term profitable growth, Spring added.
Not out of the woods yet
While the $4.3-billion company appears to be coming up for air, the hard economic landscape is still on the horizon.
With tariff fears still looming and an uncertain economy, buyers are expected to be more weary this holiday season, with Macy’s expecting to see a negative impact in its fourth quarter.
Still, the company stated it “is confident that its strong financial position, diverse brand and category offerings, and range from off-price to luxury provide flexibility to adapt to the evolving environment.”
Google dodged a bullet Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the company does not need to sell off the Chrome browser or Android as part of the landmark antitrust case against it. While Google faces penalties meant to boost competition, it avoided the most severe outcomeand that reprieve is giving hope to other Big Tech players.
Google is the only tech giant with a judgment so far, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) still has cases pending against others. Meta went on trial earlier this year in a case that could force it to divest Instagram and WhatsApp. (The judge is weighing that decision now.) The suit, which was filed in 2020, alleges Meta overpaid for the two apps to preserve its dominance in social networking.
Amazon, meanwhile, is set to face trial in October 2026 for the FTC’s antitrust suit. And Apple isnt in the clear either: the Justice Department and 16 state and district attorneys general sued the company last March, accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market.
The Google penalty should give allow all of those companies to take a collective breath, as Judge Amit Mehta accepted in full Googles proposed remedies, only tacking on a few modifications, while largely ignoring the governments suggestions. In fact, Mehta called the proposal to divest Chrome or Android an overreach on the part of the government.
As part of his 226-page decision, Mehta wrote the rise of generative AI has changed the course of this case, acknowledging that services like ChatGPT have upended the tech world.
That line could be key in upcoming antitrust cases. If the case seems to be leaning against Big Tech, invoking AI and changing market conditions could be the corporate equivalent of a get out of jail free card.
Amazon, for example, could argue AI shopping agents drive consumers to the lowest prices, boosting competition. It also doesn’t hurt that Amazon’s competitors are showing gains: Walmarts online sales jumped 22% last year and rose again in the second quarter, while Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are also chipping away at market share.
Meta, which is in the process of increasing its emphasis on AI, could make a similar argument. The company argues that todays social media looks very different than it did when it acquired rivals. Its recent addition of a friends-only tab on Facebooka way to restore a clean feed from people you actually knowreflects how much the industry has changed.
Still, some experts worry regulators are missing the bigger picture. By focusing narrowly on search or social dominance, they risk overlooking broader forms of platform power.
My concern with the Justice Department is do they know how to measure the power of these platforms beyond as a service? I dont think so, Ram Chellappa, Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Emory Universitys Goizueta Business School told Fast Company.
After all, this week’s precedent aside, the AI argument does seem to have some holes. Google remains the clear leader in search, despite advances from AI companies. Amazon still controls just under 40 percent of the U.S. ecommerce market and has a vast network of third-party sellers. And Meta remains a social media giant.
On Tuesday night, if you were browsing Sheins selection of pastoral style gentleman shirts for every day, you might have noticed a familiar face modeling the clothing: a smiling Luigi Mangione.
Mangione, the prime suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is currently in jail at the Brooklyn Federal Prison as he awaits trial. Given his imprisonment, its unlikely that Mangione posed for the photo or even knew his likeness was being used.
Shein regularly uses AI to generate models for its site and to power its fast-fashion business by projecting consumer demand, instituting dynamic pricing, and getting consumers’ recommendations to help them navigate the thousands of clothes available on the site.
[Screenshot: Shein]
It’s possible that the unusual choice of model could be chalked up to the actions of a rogue employee or vendor (Mangione has become, to some, a folk hero)especially as the lighting on the face and awkward positioning of the head on the body suggests photoshopping rather than AI generation.
The listing has since been taken down, and Shein has not responded to Fast Companys request for comment.
A representative from the company told the BBC, The image in question was provided by a third-party vendor and was removed immediately upon discovery, adding that the company is investigating the oversight.
The development comes at a bad time for Shein as the company deals with President Trumps decision to close the de minimis loophole, which had allowed businesses like Shein to ship products to the United States for free if the orders were under $800.
Now, the company will likely have to pay extra to ship items and may pass on some costs to its already price-sensitive consumers. Shein is not a public company, but has been preparing an IPO for the second half of this year.
Rather than a headache and hangxiety, a new viral cocktail recipe is claiming to lower cortisol levels and reduce stress.
The nonalcoholic drink, known as the cortisol cocktail, has racked up millions of views, with influencers saying it can lower stress hormones, boost energy, and balance adrenal function.
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Recipes differ, but most include orange juice, coconut water, and sea salt. Some add extras like cream of tartar or sparkling water. The idea is that vitamin C from juice, potassium from coconut water or cream of tartar, and sodium from sea salt help replace nutrients depleted by stress.
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But does it actually deliver?
The cocktail takes its name from cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal glands in response to stress. Cortisol is essential for survival, but both excess and deficiency can cause health problems. Still, Everlywell senior medical director Gabe Gaviola urges caution with quick fixes that promise to fix cortisol levels.
Some ingredients in these cortisol cocktails like electrolytes or coconut water can provide a quick energy lift and help with hydration, Gaviola tells Fast Company. Thats why you might feel better short-term, but you may just be masking symptoms rather than addressing the real root cause.
Theres no scientific research to support the cocktails broad claims, and the suggested doses are unlikely to meaningfully affect cortisol. That said, the ingredients do have recognized benefits. Vitamin C supports immune health, tissue repair, collagen production, and iron absorption. Potassium helps regulate blood pressure, nerve signaling, and muscle function, and high-potassium diets are linked to lower risks of hypertension and stroke. Sodium, in moderation, supports fluid balance, nerve activity, and muscle contraction.
But overdoing it has downsides. “Too much of these ingredients that are high in sugar and sodium can stress your body further, impact your sleep, or even raise your blood pressure, Gaviola warns.
Stress levels in the U.S. continue to climb, with nearly half of Americans49%reporting they frequently feel stressed. To manage it effectively, Gaviola recommends consistent sleep, mindful movement like yoga or walking, balanced nutrition, and stress-reduction practices such as meditation or journaling. The best way to support healthy cortisol isnt a trendy cocktail, he adds. Its daily habits backed by science.
There are few apps more synonymous with the iPhone than Instagram. It was one of the earliest defining apps on the smartphone, with an ascent made hand-in-hand with Apples App Store. Instagram wouldn’t even go to Android for a full two years.
Which is why, through another lens, its absurd that over 15 years, Instagram never launched a dedicated iPad app. Instead, its loyalists have been stuck with a tiny version of the iPhone app running on their iPad screens. That is until today: Instagram is now rolling out its first official iPad app.
The companys head of design, Brett Westervelt, took me on an exclusive first tourexplaining the companys evolving strategy to design its way across new platforms.
Instagram wants to be everywhere
Instagram is something of an aging teen in an internet thats changing every day, but its still bonkers-big. It added an estimated 150 million users between 2022 and 2024 alone, bringing it to 1.4 billion users globally. But naturally, its growth has slowed with scale, and it’s projecting 4.4% growth this year.
The same is not true about Instagrams monetization. Its revenue is projected to grow 24% this year to reach $32 billion (which is in part attributed to its Reels videos). Instagram is an impossibly important platform for Meta in that it now generates more than half the revenue of the company overall.
[Image: Instagram]
From a business perspective, it makes sense that Meta wants to have Instagram available anywhere and everywhere, and as Westervelt explains, the company has spent the last few years considering emerging formats beyond mobileas it considers a world welcoming AR headsets, foldable phones, and new form factors that break the slab smartphone were so used to.
Westervelt says that the iPhone was a convergence moment for technology; it became the de facto platform to design on and around. But I think the thing that we started to see a couple of years ago was it does kind of feel like we’re in a divergence moment again,” he says. “So as we just thought about where Instagram was headed and where it was important to take our interfaces, we became more and more convinced that we needed to flex and begin to expand to some of these other form factors . . . [to] be where our community is.
A few years ago, Instagram developed its first interface for Samsung and Google foldable phones, and it launched a VR experience on its Quest headset last year. For 2025, the team opted to focus on the iPada decision that might seem surprising a full 15 years into Instagrams life.
The iPad is by no means the newest, shiniest tech platform out there (and iPads represent less than 10% of Apples revenue). But Instagram would also be unwise to ignore it at the expense of pursuing shinier platforms. Apple still sold 52 million iPads in 2024, owning about a third of the tablet market by estimates, making it the sort of quietly gargantuan business that only a company like Apple could make feel insignificant.
[Image: Instagram]
The new design leans back and in
When the Instagram design team began working on the iPad app earlier this year, they anchored everything in what makes Instagram work. The core of the service, according to Westervelt, is to be connected with friends and then inspired and entertained by all of the best creativity in the world.
But to realize that vision anew, much of the process involved prototyping designs and testing it in their own livesbefore mercilessly rebuilding the experience. A lot of these things we found our way towards by having a build and just, like, ripping on itreally living with the app, says Westervelt.
[Image: Instagram]
When you open Instagram on iPad for the first time, it still looks like Instagram with its Stories sitting as bubbles on top and a central feed of media. The first big change youll notice is that a navigation bar now sits on the left side of the screen. The second big change might take you a moment: The central feed is no longer your main feed. Instead, its Reels. Instagram welcomes you with big screen video (and in portrait mode, those reels feel almost cinematic in scale as they fill the screen).
No doubt, the design team must have felt incentivized to push Reels, which are proving successful for Instagram in the age of TikTok. Westervelt, however, insists that having Reels front and center was inspired by the way we use iPads versus phones. iPads, the team confirmed, are built for lazing on the couch.
We kept finding ourselves jumping to the Reels tab . . . because you kind of want to be in this entertaining, lean back mode, and Reels is really good for that, says Westervelt.
[Image: Instagram]
The decision hardly feels controlling, as Instagram designers are actually using the extra screen real estate to allow a lot more customization over experience. Your feed is now in a tab that features three organizational views listed in a top bar. The first is your feed as it is today. The second is your friends (people you follow who follow you back). And the third is latest, a classic reverse chronological feed that puts everything into the order it was posted.
[Image: Instagram]
These feeds are more complex than Instagram is on phones, and thats the point. This is kind of going to be more of a power-user feature, says Westervelt. And indeed, Instagram is also using panelsjust swipe right or tap on the right side of your screen to pull up commentsto juggle Instagram’s spartan aesthetic with tools that let you stretch out and drill down in ways that are tricky on the phone.
Westervelt even frames the Messages tab as a productivity toolallowing you to follow conversations across Instagram and Threads in an efficient, contained space. In other words, when people arent leaning back with their iPads, Instagram expects them to be leaning in, poking and prodding at a more complex interface with gusto.
[Image: Instagram]
Westervelt insists these changes arent following Apples decision to make the iPad interface a lot more like a laptops, but the Instagram design team is clearly optimizing for people who want to quickly manage more in the app. I can see how welcome these slight organizational features could be for social media managers or creators, and Westervelt teases that Instagram will soon use the larger screen to offer more robust video editing.
In this sense, it appears that Instagram for iPad will take a more-is-more approach, albeit with a UX that keeps getting out of the way of all the content. One notable spot you can see the teams restraint is in how you navigate Stories. When you swipe between each story, Instagram on the phone uses a 3D rotating cube transition. (Trust me, you know this animation, even if you can’t spot it in your mind’s eye.) For iPad, they ditched it in favor of a somewhat flatter, 2D frame-to-frame swap.
We initially wanted to bring that to iPad because it just felt like a kind of iconic thing. We have some equity in it, was Westervelt. But the thing we were finding is, it just felt really heavy.
[Image: Instagram]
An upgraded experience
To any poor user who has been suffering through Instagram on their iPad, theres no doubt that they are in for an upgrade. And to the teams credit, it really does seem to walk the line between a mindless visual candy machine, and a functional interface offering you the next level of control. In this sense, the new Instagram app is playing it both ways: It wants to own the couch and the desk, to be a consumption machine and a creative tool. With its increased real estate, perhaps it will succeed in both regards.
What the design team wants to know from here is not just if their design works for users, but if it might actually impact what were sharing on it.
I think the thing that will be kind of interesting to see is, does having a bigger form factor like this also change what creators create? muses Westervelt. Because if it can, Instagram could be about to get even bigger.
Anyone who has stopped into a Starbucks over the past couple of years knows how exhausted the staff is. Headcount was quietly cut in the 2020s, stress went up, and the experience got worse for customers and baristas alike. (Six straight quarters of same-store sales decline will tell you exactly how thats worked out for Starbucks.)
But under CEO Brian Niccol, who was appointed last year, the company is architecting a turnaround. And Starbucks just had its best week of sales ever.
Much of Niccols plan comes down to increasing its staff in stores while also making their lives easier. How? The latest example is a new time-saving AI tool that promises to free up tens of thousands of hours across the company every week as its baristas do inventory.
The new Starbucks AI inventory tool
Typically, inventory has been a by-hand process at Starbucks. A couple times a week, an employee will spend about an hour scanning through all of the milks, syrups, and other ingredients, marking down counts on paper so that more of whatever is needed can be ordered and replenished.
A new solution developed with NomadGo largely automates this work. Instead of counting by hand, baristas can simply aim a tablet at their stock, and AI-infused 3D vision processing will handle the rest. As items are accounted for, they light up on the screen.
How is it possibly accurate? Counting stuff is the sort of work AI can do these days, sure, but it also appears to help that Starbucks keeps its items organized in pretty predictable patterns so theyre more straightforward to analyze. According to early test stores, taking inventory with this system drops the task from an hour to about 10 or 15 minutes. (Though maybe disregard that the system does appear to miss one bottle in the videothe company is claiming >99% accuracy.)
Starbucks isnt the first company to consider using vision-AI tablets to manage inventory (Walmart, for instance, uses an augmented reality app to help its employees find the right box on the shelf.) At scale, though, the impact appears significant.
If its early tests are any indication, Starbucks could save 45 minutes of labor, about twice a week, across the 11,000 North American stores that are adopting the system. Back of napkin math puts that at 16,500 hours saved a week. (Starbucks insists such barista efficiencies introduced under Niccol wont be used to reduce headcounts, but to improve customer experience.)
In this case, Starbucks will be using a significant chunk of this time saved to simply do inventory more frequentlyperhaps as often as daily, according to the company. Even at that frequency, Starbucks could still save nearly an hour a week in the fastest stores, all while ensuring its healthier menu with protein cold foams arent out of stock.
Via Transportation, a startup that aims to reimagine public transportation, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), the latest tech-focused company seeking to take advantage of growing investor interest in new listings amid a recent wave of high-dollar exits.
The New York-based firm and some of its existing shareholders plan to offer roughly 10.7 million shares, targeting a range between $40 and $44 a piece, Via said on Wednesday. At that price, the company would have a valuation as high as $3.5 billion.
The offering is being led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Allen & Company, and Wells Fargo Securities. It comes as more high-profile tech companies are moving forward with long-awaited IPOs after tariff uncertainty had prompted caution.
Just yesterday, by-now, pay-later company Klarna Group said it will seek to raise as much as $1.27 billion in a public offering that it had reportedly put on hold earlier this year.
Successful listings from tech companies ranging from Chime Financial to Figma appear to have eased worries about how the macro environment might impact the broader IPO market.
What does Via Transportation do?
Founded in 2012, Via partners with local governments and public transit agencies to offer a range of transportation solutions, including operating software, passenger apps, tech-enabled services, and data.
The company, which says it makes 90% of its revenue from government partnerships, operates a platform that is available in large cities such as New York and London, along with rural areas in places like Montana.
“For too long, public transit services had relied on 40-foot busses following circuitous routs,” Daniel Ramot, Via’s cofounder and CEO, said in a prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “We had a new idea. We were going to replace these underutilized buses with dynamically routed shuttles guided by data and powerful algorithms.”
Is Via profitable?
Not yet, but its losses are narrowing. In its SEC filing, the company reported a net loss of $90.6 million in 2024, compared to a net loss of $117 million the year before. It warned in the filing that it may never maintain or even achieve profitability.
That’s not uncommon for a rapidly growing startup. Via said its revenue ballooned from $100 million to $337.6 million between 2021 and 2024.
Via Technologies plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol Via. It has not announced a listing date but said on Wednesday that it has begun the launch of its “roadshow.”
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Theres something about talking business over red sauce Italian that just feels right. This New York transplant is faithful to the Harlem original, minus the impossible-to-get reservations and the fact thatin true Miami fashionits just steps from the sand. Its large-format family-style menu encourages hours of rewarding interaction.
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After a long day at the office, make haste to Bay 13 for a relaxing cocktail on its expansive outdoor patio. This quaint brewery also features a full cocktail bar (and plenty of Scotch whisky). Elevated pub grubbone marrow with grilled ciabatta, lamb burger with dill spreadwill tempt you to stay for dinner.
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Confidential conversation
Casa Tua Cucina
Located in an historic beach house, Casa Tua offers a variety of options to engage with assocates. Huddle for a private tte--tte in the Club, the cozy upstairs lounge area; strategize with key colleagues in the private chefs table adjacent to the open kitchen; or simply kick back on the lush patio. The choice is yours.
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Showing off stellar views to a client
Oro
Oros rooftop aerie offers unrivaled vistas of Miami Beach and the citys skyline. True to the venues name, gold abounds, from the 24-karat leaf walls to the shimmering outfits of the performers (who appear hourly). A place to see and be seen, its ideal for treating clients to a unique Miami Beach experience.
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IYKYK experiences
Presidente Bar
The real magic here occurs when you open a door disguised as a bookshelf and step into La Biblioteca, a sanctuary surrounded by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with rare spirits. The flair of bartender extraordinaire Christian Delpechthe 19-time world champion who runs the cocktail programmay transport you to the set of Cocktail.
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A team happy hour
Zucca
For happy hour with a side of sprezzatura, gather the troops here for genuine Italian aperitivo. With two different bar areas, its easy to claim a spot for cocktails from the well-stocked bar. Feeling peckish? Stick around for a dinner of house-made pastas, fresh seafood, and steaks.
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A nightcap after a business event
Surf Club Restaurant
Tucked into the Four Seasons at the Surf Club, one of the citys best hotels, Thomas Kellers swanky restaurant is the perfect way to punctuate a successful dinner with clients. The dimly lit restaurant bar boasts an impressive array of wine and spiritsall which pair well with the dessert menus warm chocolate-chip cookies.
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