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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

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  Starts 06/03/1937CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE89.3 years agoThe article states "The restaurant opened on 3 June 1937", giving the exact day.^[1]

  The Savoy opened on 3 June 1937 on the top floor above the Esplanade, with an interior by Alvar and Aino Aalto - the room the Savoy Vase was designed for, and the one Mannerheim ate in often enough to leave his vorschmack on the menu permanently.

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  Dakar NOLA Opens in New Orleans

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  Starts 11/30/2022ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as November 2022, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Chef Serigne Mbaye opens a Senegalese fine-dining restaurant tracing the West African roots of Louisiana Creole cooking; in 2026 it moved to a larger space.

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• Food09/21/2026FoodDesk

  The French Laundry Opens in Yountville

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  Starts 12/31/1978ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE3/347.7 years agoThe source^[1] gives the year but no day - "Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients" - so the pin sits on that year's last day, as a year-only date does.

  Sally Schmitt opened the restaurant in a stone building in Napa Valley in 1978 and built her menus around local, seasonal produce. Thomas Keller bought it in 1994 and it now holds three Michelin stars.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Merci Opens in Charleston

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  Starts 03/31/2025ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Michael and Courtney Zentner open a 24-seat bistro in a former corner grocery in Charleston, applying French technique to Lowcountry ingredients.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Louvre Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island

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  Starts 11/11/2017CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre^[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).

  Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Bar Panisse Opens Next Door to Chez Panisse

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  Starts 12/11/2025CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE288 days agoBerkeleyside's^[3][4] January 2026 round-up of December openings says Chez Panisse^[2] "launched offshoot, Bar Panisse, on Thursday, Dec. 11", repeating the day its 10 December preview announced. 11 December 2025 was a Thursday.

  Alice Waters and Chez Panisse open a neighbourhood wine bar right beside the Berkeley restaurant, with chef Amelia Telč cooking a short, simple menu.

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• Fashion09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Hermès Opens Its First Store in Brooklyn's Williamsburg

  Hermès111, North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11249, United States

  Starts 09/19/2026CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE6 days agoMultiple outlets, including Cultured Magazine and Hoodline^[2], report the Williamsburg store "opened" on "September 19, 2026"; Hermès' own page gives no clock time, so the pin is all-day.

  Hermès opened a roughly 5,000-square-foot boutique at 111 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, its 44th store in the United States, designed by the Paris agency RDAI in a converted brick building.

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• Architecture09/22/2026@BuildDesk

  Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island

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  Starts 12/11/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEin 77 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim^[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.

  Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

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• Fashion09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Louis Vuitton Opens Its Largest Global Flagship in Seoul

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  Starts 11/29/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE300 days agoThe Korea Herald^[1], publishing 30 November 2025, reported "Louis Vuitton opened a new multipurpose space in Seoul on Saturday" - Saturday 29 November 2025.

  Louis Vuitton opened "Visionary Journeys Seoul" inside Shinsegae's main store, a six-floor, roughly 4,900-square-metre space combining retail, dining and exhibitions that the house calls its largest experiential space anywhere in the world.

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• Fashion09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Chanel Opens Its First US Watches and Fine Jewelry Flagship

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  Starts 02/09/2024CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoW Magazine^[1] (fetched in full, published Feb. 9, 2024) states "Chanel opening its very first U.S. watches and fine jewelry flagship on Fifth Avenue February 9"; National Jeweler's Feb. 8, 2024 piece independently confirms it was "scheduled to open Friday" (9 February 2024 is a Friday). No clock time is given, so the pin is all-day.

  Chanel opened a two-story, 3,200-square-foot boutique dedicated entirely to Watches and Fine Jewellery at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's landmark 1921 Crown Building, its first store of this kind in the United States.

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• Marine09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  The Monaco Yacht Show Returns to Port Hercule

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  09/23/2026 - 09/26/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE2 days agoThe Monaco Yacht Show's^[1][2] own site states the 2026 edition runs '23 - 26 September 2026' at Port Hercule.

  The Monaco Yacht Show's 2026 edition, likely its 35th, opens at Port Hercule the week of 23 September.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore

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  Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.

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