When we were growing up, Hong Kong was our weekend getaway. At just an hour and a half flight, I can’t recall how many times we visited with my parents and grandparents over the years. When I moved to Paris in the early nineties, Hong Kong was too far away to visit but when I went …
One of my favorite restaurant areas in Singapore is Dempsey Hill where the old (colonial black and whites) and the new (modern restaurant concepts) have successfully come together and with the added bonus of free parking, a rarity in Singapore where sometimes, the cost of parking equals an expensive main course. A newish addition to …
The Moscow restaurant scene has certainly evolved since the deep, dark, post-perestroika nineties with two main restaurant groups (Novikov and Ginza) filling the city with all sorts of restaurant concepts. Roni is part of the pioneer Novikov Restaurant Group (from Arkady Novikov) who started it all with Sirena (which already existed when I lived in …
In our constant search for proper Asian food, we finally went to the Chinese restaurant that is supposed to be the most authentic on the island which is also conveniently located across the street to the only Asian grocery in San Juan. We went for Sunday dim sum and were pleasantly surprised to enter a …
I did a girl’s holiday with my friend T in New York a few weeks back and on our first evening we booked an early table at the newly-opened Hakkasan. Although they got slammed by the NY Times, we decided to give it a go as we had fond memories of our last girl’s holiday …
What better way to end a gastronomic weekend in San Francisco than a Sunday yum cha (morning tea) or dim sum brunch at Yank Sing, a Michelin-starred and James Beard awarded dim sum restaurant. The great thing about dim sum is that the food rolls be in carts so it’s ready, making it a really good …
I was in Singapore for a week and spent most of my time at Mt. Elizabeth so I had to figure out where I could go that was nearby. Lucky that I had just downloaded the new LUXE mobile guide for Singapore on my iPhone. Using their map application, I found out that the famous …
Travels with a Gourmet 