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Chip Jenkins Jazz: News
Chip Jenkins :: The Moscow Times.com [check out the PDF of the entire article]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Issue 3835. Page 8.
Bubbly, Blini on the Bishops Avenue
By Kevin Sullivan The Washington Post
LONDON -- Rolls-Royces and Range Rovers lined The Bishops Avenue as hundreds of guests poured into the Royal Mansion, the boldest and brassiest house in the neighborhood -- quite a feat on a street where the Saudi royal family owns 10 homes.Almost comically large men with impeccable manners, like aristocratic bears, checked invitations at the gates at 7:00 p.m. on a Monday evening. Five hundred guests filed through the enormous marble foyer and into the 24-meter-long salon, where uniformed servers poured from $100 bottles of French champagne as if they were watering the plants.
The swells nibbled blini loaded with walloping dollops of Russian caviar, flanked on one side by a silently rising and falling glass elevator and on the other by a platinum blonde [ Chip Jenkins ] in pointy leopard-print pumps singing jazz.
