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 …
Ginza Bairin is one of Japan’s most well-known tonkatsu specialty restaurants with five branches in Japan and almost a dozen overseas locations in Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore,Manila and even in Hawaii. When we showed the taxi driver the address for the Ginza branch, he smiled and said “Oh, you’ll be having good tonkatsu tonight.”. Ginza Bairin does …
I know, I know – we’re in Tokyo so why are we eating hamburgers? Well, like I mentioned in the previous post, Japanese restaurants have a tendency to serve one thing and one thing only and after several days where everyone had to agree to one-dish meals, I started googling burgers in Tokyo and found …
When we ask our six-year old where she’d like to go for Sunday lunch, she usually chooses Roadhouse for their super deal kids menu ($14) which is a main course, a drink and a fun dessert. We don’t mind because the burgers at the Roadhouse are pretty good and they have lots of other items on the menu in case …
On my last day in New York, I met up with good friend, Brooklyn native and fellow foodie C, who said I couldn’t leave the cit without stopping by Chelsea Market – which houses an enclosed food court with specialized food purveyors including a large Anthroplogie boutique, a Posman Books and a Bowery Kitchens, restaurant supply …
It’s the middle of the summer holidays and the kids are bored – what to do? We’ve been to the beach almost every day, to the new play area Cubby House in Seminyak, to Ubud on day trips and to the Bali Galleria’s Time Zone, eaten lots of ice cream and tried several fast food …
Travels with a Gourmet 