But these days, it has a more genteel atmosphere as an upmarket suburb and peaceful fishing village.
The Old Quay House in the small town of Fowey is the epitome of the upmarket trend.
The group's co-chairman is Alan Halsall, who heads the upmarket pram making company, Silver Cross.
This is the crucial question for all the upmarket titles over the coming months.
It's an upmarket affair, relatively speaking, where you can grab some great local food and produce.
Owners of upmarket brands, meanwhile, often prefer to associate with more expensive, American-based customer care.
The area is being slowly demolished to make way for mid- and upmarket housing.
It recently released Tide Basic, which costs around a fifth less than its more upmarket cousin.
Beretta also took full control of Benelli, an upmarket shotgun-maker based in Urbino, in central Italy.
But moving upmarket takes decades, as Audi's painstaking ascent since the 1980s has shown.
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Sake, a Lebanese chain, came first, followed by Hanabi, located in an upmarket shopping boulevard.
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While the volume car producers are moving upmarket, the luxury producers are reaching down.
She has taken the Star unashamedly upmarket, emphasised getting scoops, and added a crucial twist: humour.
Indeed, Sears is trying out bigger, uncluttered stores which have a more upmarket appeal.
Bond Street is decidedly upmarket, with exclusive jewelers, designer clothes stores and auction houses, including Sotheby's.
Security has been tightened at Sania Mirza's bungalow in the upmarket Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad.
In turn, the States of Jersey put more emphasis on promoting the island as an upmarket destination.
That definitely makes you feel more confident using the phone, and gives it a vaguely upmarket appeal.
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The new management felt Eldorado was not of sufficient quality and the schedules needed to go upmarket.
The cliffs were landscaped a hundred years ago when the town was developed as an upmarket resort.
To move upmarket, ignoring market share and pursuing margins, would mean abandoning vast swathes of the country.
The court heard that riders and passengers sped up to upmarket shops including Michael Kors and Loewe.
Around the corner is the Olive Tree, an authentic kosher restaurant with a modern, upmarket ambience.
The irreverent British lads' mags burst into a complacent, upmarket, London-oriented magazine trade and offered something different.
The leading Internet brokers now want to move upmarket by offering customers far more than cheap trading.
Banca, an upmarket Italian restaurant in Mayfair, is one of the most recent places to join the trend.
Chapeau Bateaux sells a variety of upmarket modern and vintage-style caps from The New York Hat Co.
The restaurant at Nuuk's only upmarket hotel has no difficulty attracting clients for its exclusive wagyu beef fillet.
He launched the country's first Sunday paper and an upmarket paper from the Times of India stables.
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Many of the squares for the game's upmarket locations feature sponsorship from banks, radio stations and shopping centers.
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