“Walk down the alley to a row of nondescript buildings and watch out for the unmarked grey one with a wooden door”. Those were the instructions a friend gave me when she told me about Ronin a few months after they opened in 2013. Finding Ronin is part of the fun, and the start of what would be an adventurous evening of fine (sea)food …
El Tardeo, is the newish tapas bar owned and managed by next-door Binomio, our favorite Spanish restaurant in Singapore. Open from the late afternoon for the Spanish tapas-bar-hopping habit called “tapeo” (the name is a mix of “tarde” meaning afternoon and “tapeo“), El Tardeo’s interiors are simple with a large bar on one end and several bar tables …
No better place to kickstart my blog than a meal at the Tippling Club – one of Singapore’s best restaurants where Chef Ryan Clift has been impressing diners with his inventive cuisine since he opened his counter restaurant in Dempsey in 2009. I had been once to Tippling Club in July 2011 and heard that since then, they had moved to …
In bustling Chinatown are several small streets where Singapore’s hip and happening restaurants are located. Shophouses line these tiny streets and one after another, they have been dolled up on the outside and restored on the inside for the many young chefs starting out. Created by Jason Atherton, a Gordon Ramsay alum from Verre in …
In mid-March, after almost 16 years, I finally returned to Moscow with A (who was on a business trip). When I left Russia in 1997, after living there for three years, I didn’t know it would take me that long to go back. In the last decade and a half, Moscow has certainly gone through …
After a week spent in hot and humid Orlando, we headed to historic Washington DC where we spent another week sightseeing and getting to know the nation’s capital and its’ numerous monuments and museums. We stayed a across the Potomac at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City which was convenient for getting into town as the metro …
We went on our family summer holiday to Orlando (to take the kids to Disneyworld) and relax at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes. After a few days of amusement parks, we were ready for a grown-up meal and luckily found a promising restaurant in nearby Winter Park. The Ravenous Pig is a gastropub owned by ex-CIA …
Travels with a Gourmet 