Who wouldn’t love spending a night or two at one of these 100 luxury cedar cabins equipped with full bathrooms, linens, towels, kitchenettes, and firepits at the El Capitan Canyon. Seems like you should be using designer marsh- mallows for roasting, doesn’t it? If you want to rough it a bit, choose a spacious 12′…
Alicia Keys will be there this Memorial Day weekend. So will Nina Sky, Brian McKnight, Anthony Hamilton and more. It’s the Sixth Annual Soul Beach Music Festival, May 24 through May 29, on the balmy southern Caribbean island of Aruba. Experience great people, warm sun, beautiful beaches, hot parties, and outstanding performances by the best…
I enjoyed a great lunch last week at Chic’s Seafood Restaurant and Bar with my friends Martina and Sharon. The view from this floor-to-windows second story wood and glass eatery at Pier 39 is absolutely amazing, sweeping from the East Bay hills and Alcatraz Island to the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39’s fleet of…
It’s a coffee table book. It’s a rich resource. It’s a travel planner. It’s practical and it’s wide ranging. It is “Gourmet Shops of Paris” by Pierre Rival, a striking new book about the City of Light’s food and wine stores, packed with the history, the colorful backgrounds, the boutiques, wine stores and bars, tearoom…
Brace yourself. IKEA just opened its second largest store in the world, next to its flagship store in Stockholm. This one is in Beijing — a seven-story, $100 million showplace with a restaurant that can seat 700, a lobby that’s three stories high, plus showrooms that are 500 yards long, encompassing 77 living rooms, kitchens…
The votes are in from a recent poll published by Restaurant Magazine of the world’s 50 best restaurants, as chosen by 560 chefs, critics and restauranteurs. The results are an international stew of well-known names and places you may never have heard of. Bring your appetites. And most of all, bring your big fat wallets…
Bottled water is a multi-billion dollar success story. Perrier, Evian, and other European companies have had their day in the sun. Now, a small, stylish company from the Great White North’s province of British Columbia, called Canaquawater, is the latest craze. It offers 500ml bottles of natural liquid calcium, flowing at 1200 feet above sea…
Books. Cookbooks. Restaurant Books. Restaurant Reviews. Sounds like a logical progression at Amazon.com, so it’s now offering a free service featuring thousands of restaurant menus. Initially, this service is for Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. You can also view menus online, search for menu items, read customer reviews, and make…
The Maroma Resort and Spa is not letting a small thing like a hurricane prohibit it from providing guests with a luxurious vacation. Located on Mexico’s historic Yucatan Penisula, the resort was destroyed by Hurricane Wilma. Three months later, they’ve reopened with the launch of Sian Nah — eight oceanfront suites complete with a living…
East is a design restaurant. It’s also a hotel and a lounge. Since the Fall of 2004, East has added some considerable direction and style to Hamburg’s restaurant and nightlife scene. It combines a fascinating location with an elaborate restaurant and hotel concept –– all in the centre of the city, parallel to the Reeperbahn….
My sister Jill is a foodie, so she’ll love this… What’s up from Zagat? This latest download of the top 100 luxury hotel restaurants across the US. See Zagat.com for iPod instructions. So what’s the most highly rated restaurant? It’s the French Room in The Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas with a $72 fixed-price, three-course…
There’s a new, interactive wine Web search tool now in Beta testing called Buyersvine.com. It lets you categorize your search based on wine color, wine type, price (under $5 and above $500), by interaction, with food, by day of the week, sport, likes/dislikes, and much more. So if you love wine, give it a try….