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 …
On our second evening in New York, we met up with Chef Z, an friend from the nineties who is the current executive chef at the Conde Nast Cafeteria (where we had breakfast a few days later but that’s another story). She knows her way around the NY culinary scene and chose the restaurant – ABC …
After our fruitful morning exploring Ubud, we stopped by the Como Shambhala Estate’s sister property Uma Ubud for a quiet lunch a deux since there was no one else at the restaurant that day so we had whole place to ourselves. The open-air restaurant is an all-white bale right beside a large Koi pond and …
Last week, we went up to Ubud to visit our friends Marcello and Michi at Gaya Ceramics and to have a look at their sale items to add to our growing collection of Gaya plates and platters. After an hour spent looking through their shelves, we went to have a coffee at Cafe Seniman which I had …
Starting 2012 right with this post on a restaurant that specializes on seasonal local produce that we stumbled upon with good friend AM who picked us up for lunch and drove around the area brainstorming on where we could go for our “catch-up” lunch session. He remembered that a new restaurant had just opened nearby (only …
Hands down the best coffee I’ve had all year was at Blue Bottle Coffee. I first tried their coffee after an almost half-hour wait at the Ferry Building Marketplace and immediately googled another location nearer the hotel. We found one at the Mint Plaza (two blocks away) and went there for breakfast for three days …
San Francisco, one of my favorite cities which I haven’t been to since 2003 has changed a lot but still remains the same. The laid-back vibe is still there along with the love for all things organic, local and seasonal. No visit would have been complete without a stop at the Ferry Building Marketplace. And …
Travels with a Gourmet 