John Campbell, Taste Restaurant; Suzanne Eigl, Jennifer and Russell Ciolli, a guest and Jan DiGeronimo. This past November 14, Lord & Taylor hosted and sponsored the Garden City Chamber's 5th annual "Taste of Garden City" After Hours Networking event. Featured were the culinary specialties of a hoard of local restaurants. Included were: Fortune Chinese Restaurant, Garden City Hotel, Garden City Pizza, Grimaldi's Pizzeria, La Bottega, Lord & Taylor Café, Mahalo Health Spa & Natural Organic Café, Orchid Chinese Restaurant, Seventh Street Café, Sushi Ya, Taste and Uncle Bacalas. Lord & Taylor was festively decorated for the holiday season. Attendees received gift bags and special-for-the-evening discount coupons. The Chamber looks forward to partnering with Lord & Taylor for "Taste of Garden City" 2008!

Joanne Anthony (Sovereign Bank); Tony Giampoala, (G. Paul Telecommunications); Doreen Gaimboi (Community National Bank); and Russell Ciolli (Grimaldi's). Kharla Abamont, Lou and Patricia Cappelli and Liz Denby, Garden City Chamber. Arlene Conigliaro (Coach Realty), Roger Etringham, Chamber president (Allianceplus), Karen Loeffler and Stephanie Cullum (manager, Coach Realty). Jeffrey Schwartz and Frank Livoti of Schwartz & Livoti LLP; John Pittoni of Pittoni, Bonchonsky & Zaino, LLP. Adam Cherney and Maeve McDonough, All Island Financial Group. Community National Bank's Charles Bahamonde, Stuart Lubow, president (CEO and Founder and Arzu Ket. Marie Harmon (Lord & Taylor), Roger Eltringham, Chamber president and Joe Ricaurte (Lord & Taylor) general manager). Vivian Chub and Lili (Mahalo Health Spa and Natural Organic Café. Uncle Bacala's Richie Renny and Pete Aflezis. John Appelt (Network Solutions); Maureen Clancy (Clancy & Clancy Brokerage, LTD. Jing and Rich Deremer (Dooley Deremer Orr Agency). Riva and Alan Schwartz, Law Offices of Alan J. Schwartz. Joe and Valerie Giacinto (PBI Payroll). Dorothy and Nick Episcopia, Village Trustee. Seventh Street Café staffer, Ramon with Fran Nelson, manager. Russell Ciolli, owner, Grimaldi's Pizzeria. Bernie Del Bello of Windsor Commercial Real Estate with Greg Bavaro owner, Garden City Pizza. Sing Lim and Erie Leong, owner, Sushi Ya. Rayanne Bhairam of Calagero's. Billy Chin, Fortune Chinese Restaurant. Bert Donley (Windsor Real Estate) entertained. Lou and Patricia Cappelli sample elegant pastries from the Garden City Hotel. Michael Ventre (Windsor Commercial Real Estate) and Laura Ventre. David Lee, Orchid Restaurant.