Forget Happy Hour, celebrate the balance of work and play during Fung Shui Hour at Denver’s Zengo Restaurant. The life balancing act is made a little easier Mondays through Thursdays, 5 to 7pm, with special drinks and snacks at great prices. The refreshing and delicious cucumber mojito certainly makes me feel better. There’s also a…
Via Veronica Chambers’ The Nest. There are cruises. And then there are six-star chocolate cruises with a world-class chocolatier like Katrina Markoff, owner of Vosges Haut-Chocolat. You can cruise with her as you engage you palate with a special tour from Athens to Istansbul, exploring the mystical ports of Greece and Turkey, aboard an ultra…
Maybe it doesn’t make all the headlines like receiving a Pulitzer or an Academy Award, but winning the prestigious Tea Guild’s Top London Afternoon Tea Award, is one of the highest accolades awarded in the world of tea. So hat’s off to the The Lanesborough for winning the 2008 award.This was due to The Lanesborough’s…
CNN Travel just featured this story about Sonoma restaurants from Sunset Magazine… It describes one of my favorites, The Girl & The Fig, which shocked this wine country town’s vintners when it introduced a local menu a decade ago that was Cabernet-and Chardonnay-free. It only offers Rhône wines — many of which are locally grown…
One of my favorite neighborhood restaurants, and one of my favorite overall when I lived in mid-town Manhattan was Artisanal Fromagerie and Bistro on 32nd Street between Park and Madison avenues. The vibrant restaurant and its accompanying cheese shop turned me on to a variety of products from around the world, taught me about cheese…
I just returned from a press tasting at Anchor & Hope, the new East Coast gone West, oyster bar/fish shack from dream team, Doug Washington and the Rosenthal bro’s,(Town Hall, Salt House), and I gotta tell you, THEY NAILED IT! Finally… a seafood resto in S.F. that I can call home. Love the Ambiance: The…
If there was a Bravo Top Architect Show, Stanley Saitowitz could fill the Tom Colicchio, the head judge role, for his successful career in architecture. Countless buildings he designed have received national and international recognition. This week he just scored the “Excellence in Interior Architecture” AIA award for his work at Conduit, the new Mission…
Moms and wives (who are moms) love chocolate. They love spring. So logically, they’d really love a spring hatbox filled with exotic chocolates from my favorite luxury chocolatier, Katrina, at Vosges Haut Chocolat. Their Mother’s Day gift basket is a heavenly Spring Hatbox filled with Chocolate + Flowers. With this, you can be her favorite…
I’m so glad that the Atkins diet craze has finally crashed and burned. To herald in the long-awaited “Return of the Carbs” are two new exciting eateries battling it out over our two favorite all-American classics. In the right corner we have S’MAC – an fun east village joint specializing in Mac-n-cheese. Skillet-broiled elbow mac…
I just read what Dan Barber, Executive Chef, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, is planning and it sounds fascinating… The Five Senses Dinner Series Chef Barber is offering an exciting series of dinners, down at the farm, to benefit Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, featuring renowned artists, thinkers, movers and shakers. Each dinner…
I stayed at the Opus Hotel in Montreal last September. At the time, it was undergoing a dramatic transformation. The goth-like rooms in the former Hotel Godin were being Opus-ized in bright, snappy colors. And even better, a resto was in the works. On May 9, Koko Restaurant & Bar is scheduled to open, blending…
Now that Charles Chocolates has had time to catch their breath after hip-hopping all over delivering their chocolate Easter baskets, they have turned their incredible, edible talents towards Passover. Chuck Siegal, the extraordinary chocolatier, feels that if you have to eat matzah, let it be chocolate covered, and let it be made with the finest…