Wine. Travel. Food.
Concluding a recent two-week stay in London…and power dining seven nights a week…Joanne and I needed a break from rock star chef gymnastics. We wanted someplace quiet and comfortable within walking distance of our hotel – a culinary cocoon where we could relax and reflect on our stay.
Can you believe it? MUFFULETTA restaurant is 40 years old! What better occasion, then, to take a look at the sandwich that inspired Parasole’s first property?
London may be my favorite walking city in the world. Every morning Joanne and I start out from our hotel in Mayfair and head off in a new direction.
From my first trip to London in the ‘70s, I fell in love with the city – the hustle and bustle and the vitality really connected with this Minnesota boy. The pomp and pageantry of it all…the Changing of the Guard…the jet-black horses and their mounts wearing brass breast plates shiny as trumpets…the Tower of […]
Sometimes when Joanne and I are in Paris, we just don’t want to be culinarily challenged. By the 5th or 6th day of seeking out very special restaurants that somehow could have a culinary relationship with our PARASOLE restaurants, we simply want a DAY OFF…a time to just chill. But Paris being Paris, even the […]
As one who heads to the Mayo Clinic for his yearly physicals, I’ve discovered something about dining in Rochester: You can treat yourself to a nice dinner, or you can treat your doc to a nice clean prep for your colonoscopy the next morning. You can’t do both (I’ve tried, but my efforts were poo-poo’d […]
It was probably 20 years ago that I visited ROY’S Hawaiian restaurant in Waikiki. And being my first trip to Hawaii, it was my first experience with real – and really great – Pacific Rim cuisine. Prior to that, my “Hawaiian” dining had been limited to TRADER VIC’S, DON THE BEACH COMBER and our own […]
On a recent visit to Miami, Joanne and I went to one of our favorite places, a Korean barbecue called THE DRUNKEN DRAGON, located behind an anonymous storefront in a strip mall, next door to a Subway sandwich shop.
A recent posting on Travel Market posed the question: “What happens when you put Studio 54 impresario Ian Schraeger and hotel founder Bill Marriott in the same room?”
I love chicken…LOVE IT!!! And I’ve been fortunate enough to eat it all over the world – from street food stalls in Bangkok…to Kansas City for STROUD’S cast iron skillet chicken deep fried in lard ……or the Central American sensation, POLLO CAMPERO’s grilled chicken, so coveted by Los Angelenos that prior to its U.S. opening […]
