If you’ve outgrown the usual raucus frat-brat, all-the-green-beer you can drink St. Patty’s Day celebration, then check out all the special events for Gaelic Gourmet Week, being held in America’s most Irish city, Boston. From March 13-17 six of Ireland’s best chefs will come to Boston to showcase “New Irish Cuisine” including Noel McMeel of…
Seattle’s hotel scene has perked up in the past few years. With the city’s new hotels bringing the total to 11,000 rooms in the downtown core, there are plenty of options to fit your style and budget. All I require is a comfy king size bed, a cozy cocktail lounge and sometimes even a room…
Seattle’s hotel scene has perked up in the past few years. With the city’s new hotels bringing the total to 11,000 rooms in the downtown core, there are plenty of options to fit your style and budget. All I require is a comfy king size bed, a cozy cocktail lounge and sometimes even a room…
Seattle’s hotel scene has perked up in the past few years. With the city’s new hotels bringing the total to 11,000 in the downtown core, there are plenty of options to fit your style and budget. All I require is a comfy king size bed, a cozy cocktail lounge and sometimes even a room with…
Seattle’s hotel scene has perked up in the past few years. With the city’s new hotels bringing the total to 11,000 rooms in the downtown core, there are plenty of options to fit your style and budget. All I require is a comfy king size bed, a cozy cocktail lounge and sometimes even a room…
[NOTE: This is Part Two of the Navarra, Spain Article featuring Restaurant Tubal posted on February 22, 2007.] Oozing boyish charm and patience, Chef Nicolás Jimenez sweetly smiled as he shook my hand and told me (after I had gone on for a good 10 minutes about how happy I was to meet him and…
Coming to you straight from the Twenty-First Annual Masters of Food & Wine Event being held at the historic Highlands Inn, Park Hyatt in Carmel, which has been voted one of the top hotels in North America by both Condé Nast Traveler and Travel & Leisure. Ok, so I do get to stay in a…
Everybody’s favorite Austrian celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck, has been the official caterer for the Academy Awards® for more than a decade. He says, “Year after year, I am the only person who gives an Oscar® to everyone who wants one.” Herr Puck serves chocolate statuettes to the 1,600 attendees of the Governors Ball following the…
I hear Peter Brook, a sociologist at San Jose State University on National Public Radio today. He was saying that eating meat is the equivalent of driving an SUV because cow farms create 16% of the world’s methane, a greeenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. So becoming a vegetarian or even a vegan will…
All I knew about Navarra, Spain was that it is where Pamplona’s Fiestas de San Fermin, the annual “Running of the Bulls” is held. Then I heard that the American Institute of Wine & Food was flying in Nicolás Jimenez, from Tubal Restaurant to prepare two special wine pairing dinners, (one in NYC and one…
Winning the Michelin Award for Pub of the Year in Britain — a nation that knows and loves its pubs — is no easy feat. But Michelin said that it was an “easy choice” when they selected Wales’ Bell Inn at Skenfrith as the reigning pub for 2007. The Bell beat out hundreds of other…
Remember how Spa Getaways used to mean suffering through a juice fast and dining on Barbie doll size portions? Hotel Valley Ho has got it all right — great digs, super spa (Conde Nast Traveler ranks it one of the best new spas in the country) and an incredible Monday Night Special Chefs Menu. Located…