Travels with a Gourmet

a food lover's travels, memorable meals, culinary trials and gastronomic experiences

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 …

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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 …

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Sometimes, I find a really good restaurant that’s out-of-the-way and I’m reluctant to blog it because I’m worried it’ll be ruined and become a reservations-only kind of place.  But then again, if I don’t share it, it might shut down eventually and I would loathe for that to happen, so here’s my summer restaurant discovery. …

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Dinner on our first evening in London had to be somewhere special and it was going to be difficult to decide where to go with so many restaurants to choose from. This decision was fortuitously taken out of my hands when Mrs. B kindly booked us a table at one of London’s best seafood restaurants …

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