Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travels voted it “one of the 20 secret bargains of San Francisco.” National Geographic Traveler called it “one of San Francisco’s top attractions.” And SFWeekly.com said San Francisco City Guides was the “Best Walking Tour.” Best of all, these three dozen tours are FREE (but donations are welcome).
Stars like Stella McCartney and Kate Moss have been spotted having a spot of tea in some of London’s more fashionable high tea restaurants, from the recently opened Tea Palace in fashionable Notting Hill to some of the city’s most refined hotels and restaurants. Steeped in tradition, the Palace is a modern tea emporium offering…
Whether you call it N’Awlins, NOLA, or New Orleens, this city has some outstanding restaurants. Brennan’s is a culinary phenomenon and has been since it opened almost 60 years ago. The chefs here have created some of the world’s most famous and imaginative dishes like Bananas Foster. Now with 10 restaurants, their best bargain buys…
Amsterdam in the summer has an annual treat for classical music lovers of all ages. Grachtenfestival will feature some 70 performances from August 17-21 along the city’s canals, including the Prinsengracht concert on a floating stage. But there’s more to this festival than just beautiful music. There will be free performances in and around private…
Starting in November, the Hotel Roger Williams in New York will offer wine and cheese tastings. Max McCalman, a cheese expert who hopes to “spread the curd” about artisanal cheeses, will organize and attend some of the tastings. Each wine and cheese tasting will cost $25 per person and will be held the first Tuesday…
Paris Hilton and Beyonce´are just two of the celebs who have been throwing away their Euros this summer on $17,000-a-day yachts in Saint-Tropez. Once a quaint French fishing village, it’s now a jet-set playground for the richer and famous like Usher, Tara Reid, Naomi Campbell, The Beckhams, Mischa Barton, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis and Bono.
Not only is soybean curd, AKA tofu, being celebrated in LA’s Little Tokyo next weekend, but it’s actually the 10th Annual 2005 Tofu Festival. Or, as the presenters like to call it… Tofuzilla, “When Giant Tofu Takes Over Little Tokyo.” And its roots go back even further as the 65th Annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival.
If the Maori culture intrigues you, stick out your tongue, stomp your feet and beat your chest at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from August 5th through the 14th. Here, you can view America’s largest exhibition of contemporary Maori art and culture from New Zealand. It includes The Eternal Thread, a world…
The original Emporium department store building in San Fransco first opened its doors in 1896. Two centuries later, in Autumnn 2006, it will become the focal point of Westfield San Francisco Centre as the edifice is transformed to become a brand spanking new Bloomingdale’s. This nearly 500,000-square foot, multi-level vertical shopping center in the heart…
From the profound founders of CustomerEvangelist.com, Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba: Hotelier Jeff Klein, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on the efforts of some boutique hotels (like the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel) in Los Angeles to create buzz by creating celebrity-driven pool parties that usually shut out paying hotel guests from using basic hotel…
I’m dangling over the raw, pounding Pacific Ocean on Canada’s westernmost shore. Two bald eagles soar above and a seal rides the foamy surf. “I’m glad they’re putting on a show for you today,” says Charles McDiarmid, managing director of the Wickaninnish Inn, near Tofino on Vancouver Island, B.C.
There are perhaps hundreds of tapas bars in Barcelona serving innovative small plates. But the taste-testers there at Epicurious.com boast about one in particular, It’s called El Quim de la Boqueria right in the middle of the rambling Boqueria marketplace, which specializes in fricassee of artichokes and white asparagus, lamb strips in dark beer, tiny…