After eating, Dan-Dan clued me into the secrets of this restaurant. Authentic cooking with the right seasonings. Simple enough, but not easy! Fourty-one years ago Sal & Theresa came to the area to work for a local restaurant owner. In time, they had their own restaurants. The American D...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You’re going to need to have a lot of energy for your adventures. We have many local restaurants that serve some of the best breakfast you’ll put in your mouth, but there is one chain restaurant that the locals love, if you have tim...
dirt-cheap South Indian restaurant near the Gare du Nord. An afternoon filled with a large bottle of pastis and greatfriends*. A post-birthday shindig featuring spectacular food and evenbettercompany. Paris has been called many things: city of light, city of love, city of dreams. For me, ...
looking anxiously at the faces of the people around me to see if I was breakingbánh mìetiquette. Nobody paid me any attention, though, and before I knew it I was at the counter, opposite a small, squat Vietnamese woman taking orders. She eyed me up and down and barked “what you ...
I skimmed through our guidebook, prepared to confirm what I already knew about restaurant opening times, except that instead that I encountered a surprise. A restaurant we had heard about in connection with its famous paellas, the venerableSet Portes, was open all day. ...
Having spent the better part of a decade as a vegetarian, I can safely say that I know vegetable soup pretty well. In fact, there were times in which I had little else to sustain me. One of these was during my first year in college, when like all other freshman students, I was u...
Year 2, Week 10: The Nightmare Before Christmas Bento Lunch. One of our favorite family things to do this time of year is to watch the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas." We just saw it tonight and my kids are all excited over it once again. We all agree that the best scene is...
on many restaurant menus in Jamaica, we were surprised to find soup listed not with the other appetizers but as a separate course, presumably to assuage any fears that you might be expected to forego your soup should another appetizer look tempting as well. In fancier restaurants these soup of...
The original idea behind this restaurant was to collect some of the best street-food vendors in Saigon and assemble them in one place, creating a kind of one-stop shop for visitors to allow them to experience a wide variety of local delights. Although the place has taken a bashing in rece...
near-perfect assembly of Mediterranean flavors, and even without the olives this cake would be pretty darn good. With the olives, however, it’s in another class entirely – all I can say is, if you think you’re a fruitcake hater, give it a shot. You may, like me, suddenly find ...