Wine. Travel. Food.
Last week I posted about Iceland……and we WILL get back to that, but probably not until the late spring. I just can’t imagine anybody going to Iceland in the winter. So for the next few postings we’ll turn our attention to warm places where Minnesotans go to escape the cold winter. No, not Naples, Florida. […]
Joanne and I have just returned from three days in ICELAND. I’ll write about the food and restaurants in the upcoming weeks and months. But before that, I thought it might be wise to give a general overview of the place to provide context to my upcoming posts. First of all, I discovered ICELANDAIR when […]
Jokes about GERMAN FOOD are the WURST. Indeed, as Karen Krizanovich writes in The Civilian publication, “What do you think of when you think of German/Austrian food? Terrific strudels…heaps of whipped cream (schlag)…heart attacks…and a FAT ASS.” It also doesn’t help the region’s image that, as Amol Rajan of The Independent put it, “Austria produced […]
RULES claims to be London’s oldest surviving restaurant – open for business near Covent Garden since 1798. As Marina O’Laughlin states in the Guardian, “We all know Rules, don’t we?” Yes, we do. They have fed Charles Dickens…”Bertie”, King Edward VII of England…two James Bonds, Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore…as well as Paul Newman and […]
I never knew there was such a thing as a “New York Steakhouse” until the late seventies, when one of my New York clients took me to THE PALM. Subsequent visits to Peter Luger, Smith & Wollensky and Spark’s (notwithstanding the shooting of mobster Paul Castellano at their front door) and KEEN’S CHOPHOUSE caused me […]
Years ago Joanne and I took our kids to France and Germany. We flew Icelandic Air out of New York and landed in Luxembourg, which I believe at that time was the only place that the airline had the rights to land. After two days, we left Luxembourg by car heading south for the ROUTE […]
Paris is expensive….hellishly expensive! Particularly its hotels. And especially the five-star properties. Sure, if you stay at the Hotel de Crillon or the Ritz, you’ll enjoy a superior location, super-attentive staff (including, on certain floors, a private butler), as well as a well-appointed (though not necessarily large) room – but you’ll pay upwards of a […]
I’m keenly aware that most of this blog’s readers aren’t contemplating a trip this fall or winter to Australia. It’s not just a long flight – and an expensive one – but after investing your time in that journey, you’re kind of committing yourself to a stay longer than most people can easily manage. But […]
Recently Joanne and I discovered a wonderful Greek-Turkish restaurant in the Design District neighborhood of Miami. Called MANDOLIN, it’s owned and run by a husband-wife team: Ahmet Erkaya and Anastasia Koutsiokis – he’s from Turkey, she’s Greek…which is a little odd since their home countries have been at odds for the past several hundred years. […]
Bavaria, in the mountains of southern Germany, isn’t just beautiful, it scales the heights of German cuisine. When Joanne and I used to fly Northwest Airlines to visit our daughter in Switzerland, the best option was to fly Minneapolis to Frankfurt and take a rental car south to Switzerland. Driving through the uninspiring central part […]
