| The title is certainly a fair description of the 15x15 sq ft bijou premises in Stable Mews, in Leigh. |
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| What used to be their homes and even workshops are now largely weekend cottages or bijou conversions for long-distance commuters. |
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| The jewel in the crown of this bijou empire is the Seafood Restaurant, which he opened in the early Seventies. |
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| The bijou townie character of a lot of the new development is quite out of keeping with the historic character of the town. |
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| Here an ancient citadel coils around an old port and bijou restaurants crowd around a modern marina. |
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| The lane squeezes tight between dry-stone walls, big green views billow away to the north and there are bijou meadows soaked with buttercups as tall as daffodils. |
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| The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess. |
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| Seventy years ago an Eton schoolmaster dotingly built his soprano wife a bijou opera-house beside the country pile he inherited on the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne. |
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| Sure there are upmarket towns like Peebles and Perth, with bijou cafes and hand-knitted jumper shops, many of which are aimed more at the tourists than the natives. |
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| They started 15 years ago and between them now boast restaurants, hotels, a university campus, a sports stadium, arts centres, new bridges and bijou housing. |
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| Never mind that the club will be evicted from their ground at the end of the season, which will be bulldozed into a building site from which bijou homes will arise. |
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| Her inner circle of friends included Paris and Nicky Hilton, bijou Phillips and Lindsay Lohan. |
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| A two-bedroom flat in bijou Holly Walk, not far from Hampstead Heath but not exactly in view of it either, was just fifty quid shy of a million pounds. |
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| There is also an enterprising cafe bar in the bijou shape of Kings Heath's Cherry Reds, with its necessarily select range of craft beers. |
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| Everything was beautifully presented on contemporary white crockery, the popadom pickles arrived in bijou dishes on a slate. |
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| The occasional but essential clear-outs of my compact and bijou office invariably produce surprises, most of them pleasant. |
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| When an ancient shrine to the patron saint of Sidi Bou Said, a bijou resort north of the capital, was damaged by fire on January 12th, Nahda held a rally in the town to condemn the attackers. |
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| I had booked us into the Granados 83 hotel close to the bijou boutique-filled Avenida Diagonal in the upmarket Eixample district. |
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| You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface. |
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| Other Bijou main courses are made up of traditional winter warmers such as saltimbocca, roasted loin of lamb, roasted rabbit and guinea fowl. |
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| Bijou is a Victorian giant sugar pea, 6ft or so high, with large numbers of 5ins pods. |
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