Wine. Travel. Food.
As many of you know, I am roundly criticized for posting so much about Miami restaurants. “Minnesota doesn’t give a shit about the Atlantic coast,” I’m told. “Minnesotans go to Naples.”
A few years ago, when Joanne and I were in the Spitalfields area of London near St Paul’s Cathedral, we stumbled on a piece of history – a dining icon called SWEETINGS.
When Joanne and I travel to Paris, it seems that we usually arrive around noon. I’m still feeling groggy and cotton-mouthed from the overnight flight, so by the time we get settled into our hotel at around 2:00, all I want to do is take a snooze.
While in London a few years ago Joanne and I set out in the early morning from our hotel near Hyde Park for a long, long walk. Our destination: BOROUGH MARKET, the 1000-year-old wholesale and retail market in the Southwark neighborhood in Central London. It’s on the same side of the River Thames as The […]
I am, by no means, an expert on RUSSIAN FOOD. I do enjoy it, though. I’ve been to Eastern Europe on a couple of occasions and I suspect that there’s not a great deal of difference between what I’ve tried in Budapest and Prague versus Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Joanne tells me that we dined at an EDDIE MERLOT’S years ago, she thought in Milwaukee. That may be so, but it had been wiped clean from my memory, so last week as I walked into a suburban Chicago branch of this chain, I felt like a first-timer.
Back in the day, before Pete and I started what was to become Parasole, we both had jobs that required a great deal of travel – Pete was a marketer for Pillsbury, with key accounts on the West Coast. I was a commercial interior designer with most of my clients in New York City.
After you’ve done the Louvre…and Musée d’Orsay…..and the Musée Picasso…..and have seen Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at Musée de l’Orangerie…..and the Eiffel Tower… and whatever else, do yourself a favor and try something new……and SPECTACULAR.
