It’s the last quarter of the year so I think I’d better write about my best meal in 2015. Parador La Huella sits on windswept Brava beach of the little town of Jose Ignacio in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Punta del Este is the Saint Tropez of South America. It’s where the bronzed and the beautiful get together …
On our last evening in Tokyo, we ventured out to Shirokane in the southern end of Minato for an early dinner at Yakiniku Jumbo. This yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant only serves A5 Black Wagyu which is the highest quality of Japanese beef. The place is simply decorated with wooden booths and tables with a built-in grill in the …
After a morning spent shopping for children’s presents at Hakuhinkan Toy Park, Tokyo’s version of Toys’R’Us, Rumi and I were escorted by the shop’s owner to his favorite tempura restaurants a few blocks away. Just off Ginza, in a back alley was an unmarked sliding door which led to my best lunch in Tokyo. One …
My friend Rumi recommended this traditional yakitori restaurant, one of the oldest in Tokyo with over 80 years of mastering the art of grilled skewered chicken. What started out in 1931 as a simple food stall located behind the Kabuki theater, quickly became a favorite of the Kabuki actors and theater crowd which then prompted …
Encanto is the beach club and restaurant of the Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Located away from the arrival pavilion and main pool and Positivo Sandbar, the open-air beach complex has a large pool, sun loungers, cabanas and a main restaurant serving both lunch and dinner. At midday, there is menu of lunch classics – …
The last time I ate in Zuma was in London, the first one of many Zumas that have since opened all over the world so when I heard that they had opened a Miami outpost, I had to go back and see if Zuma had changed. First was trying to get a reservation. Although Zuma …
After the night flight from Hong Kong, I arrived in LAX on a Monday evening in late November and was met by my sister and my brother-in-law’s younger brother. I had promised them dinner and we went straight to Shinsengumi , a yakitori restaurant they had been raving about. (Though not technically in laguna beach, this …
Travels with a Gourmet 