The Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles is a fashionable, elite boutique that attracts food aficionados. Now, its Bastille celebration on the evening Friday, July 14, with French culinary delights and Madeleine Sophie de Jean, Champagne Ambassador from Mumm will surely be a magnet for foodies from several continents. Featured dishes will include: • Seared foie…
Business Week said it best, “Concorde may be dead, but luxury travel across the Atlantic is alive and well with the advent of Eos Airlines.” The magazine goes on to applaud its “business class services with a five-star hotel twist for passengers flying from New York’s JFK airport to London’s Stansted.â€? You’d expect to pay…
Gowalmandi has changed so much after commissioning in October 2000. Official hype is over, but Gowalmandi Heritage and Food Street still offers some of the best dinning deals in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city. A good mixture of past architectural glories and present culinary delights, Gowalmandi (like Choona Mandi, Lakar Mandi, Chamra Mandi and many…
The subheadline for this Website is: “Like Macgyver, but for food.” You gotta like that. A guy named Soma started Snacksby. He says it “is a different, easier kind of recipe site. You tell us what you’ve got in your fridge, in your pantry, or just what you’re looking to find in a recipe, even…
Tucked away on tiny Cornelia Street in New York City’s West Village, Home Restaurant has the feel of a cozy homey dining room, thus its name. Last Thursday I wandered in, chatted with Larry the general manager who showed me the fast-growing New York wines that the restaurant is serving: including a vast collection from…
About 10 years ago, my wife and I were vacationing in Christchurch, New Zealand. Full of lamb and tired of seafood, we happened upon a Mexican restaurant. To our surprise, it was fantastic, from the margaritas to the guacamole to the burritos. Turns out the chef had spent time in LA and learned from local…
SavoryNewYork.com does video overviews of restaurants in New York City. You can sign up for their newsletter, but I could not find an RSS feed for the videos, so by some definitions this is not really a videocast or podcast. Savory New York provides detailed information about a wide range of restaurants in New York,…
If you want an authentic Vietnamese dining experience, then Puku isn’t the place to visit. Located at 60 Hang Trong in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, Puku is a popular ex-pat hangout, and a great place to relax on a hot day and eavesdrop on gossiping UN volunteers. You can also hook-up your laptop and catch up…
You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Even your parents have done it. Yes, we’ve all carried some kind of foreign food back from a trip — whether it was a melting blueberry cheesecake from Zabar’s in NYC, a can of olives or escargots from southern Europe, square watermelons from Japan, pungent cheese from just about…
Like doughnuts? Like to travel? Well, with a recent article in Saveur Magazine, you just might be able to combine the two. All in the name of research, of course, their staff recently went on the road to uncover the seven best doughnut shops that are worth checking out. First up is Butler’s Colonial Donut…
When you think of Key West, do you think of Ernest Hemingway? Or the gorgeous sunsets? Or Key Lime Pie? Many think of the restored Victorian gem called the Marquesa Hotel, one of the area’s best small luxury hotels. Situated in Old Town and a few steps from Duvall Street, it’s building a reputation for…
What do a tart Japanese citrus and a California berry have in common? They’re both being used, infused and perused by foodies as two new fruit flavors for a variety of dishes. For example, though the hard, bumpy yuzu fruit has many seeds and doesn’t yield much juice, it offers a “tubro Meyer lemon” flavor…