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The 10 Best Weekend Food Trips in America

June 22nd, 2011

Some of us plan trips around city attractions; others plan trips around city menus. Whether you’re looking for winery tours in Sonoma, CA, or the freshest seafood in Maine, TastingTable has mapped out the 10 best foodie roadtrips in the U.S. – just bring your appetite and extra Wet-Naps.

Seafood
Portland, ME
Maine is known for it’s lobster, of course — but there’s also plenty of scallops, clams, oysters and other sea brethren that more than deserving of a taste, too.

Italian Food
New York, NY
Little Italy, chicken parm, and the classic New York slice: Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs know how to do Italian justice this side of the Atlantic.

Two Courtyard Hotels Make Eco-History

September 22nd, 2009

Today, two of our Courtyard hotels are making eco-history. Our Courtyard Portland City Center is receiving it’s official Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) – Gold certification plaque from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Courtyard Chevy Chase, which is also a LEED-Gold candidate and expected to receive its certification by the end of the year, will celebrate its grand opening. This is a momentous occasion for these two hotels as they are the “greenest” hotel in the Marriott system of 3,200 hotels worldwide.

The event will be attended by VIPs at both locations. In Chevy Chase, Marriott chairman and CEO Bill Marriott will attend, as well as the chief operating officer of the USGBC, Chris Smith; Montgomery County, Md., exeuctive, Ike Leggett and Courtyard vice president and global brand manager, Brian King. And, in Portland, the city’s mayor, Sam Adams, and the senior vice president of LEED for the USGBC, Scot Horst, will attend.

These two hotels will hold their event simultaneously and they will be broadcast via global webcast at www.courtyardgreencoast2coast.com. It will start at 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific and last approximately one hour. We hope you’ll tune in and watch online as these hotels celebrate their tremendous accomplishment.

For more information about these two hotels and their green elements, as well as Marriott International’s green initiatives, click here.

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