Sunday evenings are when we have our family dinner out and since Sentosa Cove’s Quayside Isle is much more pleasant than the overcrowded Resorts World complex, we end up heading there for an early dinner al fresco overlooking the marina. Since Quayside Isle opened in December 2012, there have been several changes in the restaurant offerings – …
Bird Bird is the newest restaurant of Singapore’s bad boy chef, Bjorn Shen. Fans of his popular Middle Eastern restaurant Artichoke, are in for another cheeky surprise with this casual Thai street food restaurant just like those found in the back streets of Bangkok. The place is simply but thoughtfully designed with mismatched plastic stools, simple wooden tables, multi-colored soft drinks crates stacked …
The Thoumieux is a 15-room boutique hotel, owned by the BeauMarly group of Thierry Costes (son of one of those Costes brothers) and operators of over a dozen hip and happening restaurants and hotels in Paris. It was a novelty for us since we always stay at Le Saint-Gregoire in the neighboring 6th, our favorite left bank arrondissement and we …
It’s a hazy Friday in Singapore and it looks like we’re going to have a rainy weekend up ahead which is why I decided to do a “Flashback Friday” post which I’ll try to do weekly to help me catch up on all the other restaurants I haven’t been able to write about. Today’s post goes …
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 …
To finish off my long-delayed posts on Moscow is a list of a few restaurants I went to that I really enjoyed. Most are located either in the center or just off the garden ring road. Here they are in no particular order: Moloko Cafe Ulitsa Bolshaya Dimitrovka 7/5 Moscow Telephone: +7495 692 0309 *Open …
Cafe Pushkin is housed in a newly built mansion just off Pushkin square which has successfully recreated a Russian aristocrat’s home from the 1800’s from the wood panelling to the heavy furniture, the chandeliers and the candlelit tables, the plaster moldings on the ceilings and even the waiters dressed in period outfits making it feel …
Travels with a Gourmet 