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Despite its prominent placement next to the Yale Center for British Art, Olea a Spanish and Mediterranean restaurant remains relatively unknown to Yale undergraduates two months after its opening.

Olea opened in late August at 39 High St., where local favorite Ibiza had operated for over 15 years. The restaurant closed in the Spring due to a dispute between the landlord and restaurant owners Sonia and Ignacio Blanco, the New Haven Independent reported in March. Although Olea is now operating under the same chef and much of the same staff as Ibiza, Manuel Romero chef of both Ibiza and Olea told the News in an August interview that he wanted to break away from traditional dishes.

According to an email from Olea management, most of the restaurants customers on weekdays are Yale students, faculty, staff or other affiliates. But most students interviewed were not even familiar with the new restaurant. Of 17 undergraduates surveyed, five were familiar with Ibiza while only three of those surveyed knew of Olea, and only one had eaten at Olea.

Despite Romeros proposed change in menu, student customers familiar with the change of names said they have not experienced a drastically different dining experience from Ibiza.

It will be the same type of cuisine and not groundbreaking like something in New York City, said Earl Lee 15, co-editor in chief of the Yale Epicurean, an undergraduate publication about food.

Han-ah Sumner 18 visited the restaurant last weekend with her parents and noted the high quality of the service and the complimentary dishes.

This past weekend, Olea offered a special Family Weekend menu tailored to those visiting campus and looking for a special meal.

Student foodies recognize Olea as filling a unique niche.

Olea, just as Ibiza was, is one of the best restaurants in New Haven within their price range, said Lucas Sin 15, co-editor of the Epicurean along with Lee. The food is well executed and the profiles are unique to the establishment.

Lee echoed Sins sentiments but identified other finer dining experiences including Zinc, Heirloom and 116 Crown as potential competitors to Olea in the upcoming months. Other students mentioned Barcelona and Briq as rounding out the roster of restaurants appealing to the same audience by offering a high-end dining experience close to campus.

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When it comes to Ed Sheeran, there are a few things we've come to expect - and ballroom dancing certainly ain't one of them!

This however didn't stop our favourite flame-haired pop star unveiling his sexualised Strictly Come Dancing moves in his latest music video for Thinking Of You.

It also didn't stop us all crowding round the monitor at Now HQ getting slightly hot and bothered as we see Ed in a whole new light.

Here are our top 5 reasons Ed Sheeran s now all kinds of sexy....

1. He's ditched the cute and casual

There's nothing hotter than a well dressed man is there? Which is why we're overjoyed to see Ed's ditched the baggy jeans and T-shirts for tailored trousers, shirt and waistcoat for the vid!

2. The beer belly's been beaten

After shedding 35 lbs for the video, Ed's unlikely diet is all kinds of genius!

'Do you miss beer?' an interviewer asked Ed, who ditched his pints to lose the pounds. 'No, I just replaced it with Vodka,' the star replied.

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By Richard Kay and Nicky Haslam For The Daily Mail

Published: 16:20 EST, 3 October 2014 | Updated: 04:04 EST, 4 October 2014

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Almost a generation has passed since Nicky Haslam, societys pre-eminent observer of style, compiled a list of dos and donts in a newspaper column that has helped the uninitiated through the minefield of fashion and good taste

Almost a generation has passed since Nicky Haslam, societys pre-eminent observer of style, compiled a list of dos and donts in a newspaper column that has helped the uninitiated through the minefield of fashion and good taste.

His list became an essential guide for those who wished to convince the world they were not only cultured, but blessed with fine-tuned sophistication. It was also very funny.

But times change. The internet age has produced a new set of social rules. Not even the U and non-U advice of the late Nancy Mitford survives entirely intact.

So to mark this new era, we asked society decorator Haslam, who at 74 is surely living proof that while fashions change, style doesnt, to come up with a new list of vulgar things, from figures of speech to fads and obsessions, we should all avoid.

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Organic food. Coloured wellies. Harvey Nichols. Even Bake Off. They're all SO vulgar, according to hilariously caustic ...

WHEN she scooped a 1million jackpot on the National Lottery, teenager Jane Park vowed she wouldnt let the money change her.

Twelve months on, the 18-year-old has splashed out on new boobs and nice bags but says little else in her life has changed.

She hasnt bought the white Range Rover she said she would buy because she still hasnt learned to drive.

She is not living in the luxury new house she bought as she didnt like living on her own.

And she says in the weeks after winning the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle, she didnt take all her friends on the dream holiday she planned as her pals either couldnt get time off work or didnt have passports.

The Hibs fan hates clothes shopping, doesnt dine out at fine restaurants and worries that boys are scared to chat her up because of her bank balance.

And Jane claims that not having anything to do all day when her friends are at work can be boring.

But as she prepares to start looking for a job or head off to university, she realises just how lucky she is.

Jane, who lives with her mum in a two-bed flat in Niddrie, Edinburgh, said: Maybe Im not your typical sort of lottery winner as I hate shopping and I dont like going on holiday to five-star hotels.

I am having fun and its good knowing that I have money and can do whatever I want to do. My trouble is I just need to work out what it is I want to do.

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WHEN she scooped a 1million jackpot on the National Lottery, teenager Jane Park vowed she wouldnt let the money change her.

Twelve months on, the 18-year-old has splashed out on new boobs and nice bags but says little else in her life has changed.

She hasnt bought the white Range Rover she said she would buy because she still hasnt learned to drive.

She is not living in the luxury new house she bought as she didnt like living on her own.

And she says in the weeks after winning the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle, she didnt take all her friends on the dream holiday she planned as her pals either couldnt get time off work or didnt have passports.

The Hibs fan hates clothes shopping, doesnt dine out at fine restaurants and worries that boys are scared to chat her up because of her bank balance.

And Jane claims that not having anything to do all day when her friends are at work can be boring.

But as she prepares to start looking for a job or head off to university, she realises just how lucky she is.

Jane, who lives with her mum in a two-bed flat in Niddrie, Edinburgh, said: Maybe Im not your typical sort of lottery winner as I hate shopping and I dont like going on holiday to five-star hotels.

I am having fun and its good knowing that I have money and can do whatever I want to do. My trouble is I just need to work out what it is I want to do.

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Scottish teen Lotto millionaire reveals why she still lives with her mum and takes the bus despite her cash