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Buenos Aires - I realized last night as we decided on a casual dinner while we were out walking around in the neighborhood, that there are places that I don’t stop to think about as restaurants. I don’t mean them any disrespect, it’s just that they’re the kind of places where normally I might only [...]

Buenos Aires - I am saddened to have to pass along the news of the demise of a long cherished friend. The best pastrami in New York is no more. For those who’ve been reading the last couple of weeks, I very well may have been the last food writer to review the 2nd Avenue [...]

Buenos Aires - This is going to be a bit of a rambling post, mostly just catching up on a variety of things over the past couple of days since returning home. My apology isn’t for the length of the post, it’s really not that long (one of my best friends says my restaurant reviews [...]

Buenos Aires - After my recent good experience at Dashi, I was looking forward to checking out Osaka, a primarily Japanese restaurant that has gotten some great recommendations in the foodie world. I had started off yesterday planning on pizza, based on a recommendation over on What’s Up Buenos Aires? for an authentic Italian pizza [...]

Tigre, Argentina - A mere 20 miles northwest of Buenos Aires is the small city of Tigre, basically at the entrance to the Delta area of the Parana River. Founded in 1580, historically Tigre was a combination farming community and port for loading boats with timber harvested from the islands and riverbanks of the Delta. [...]

New York City - For a last evening out in New York, and a bit of a celebration as well, my friend Kym and I thought we’d drop in on another friend, Patricia Yeo, chef at Sapa, 43 West 24th Street. I worked with Patricia at AZ, where she truly made a name for herself, [...]

New York City - As promised a couple of days ago, I’m sharing a proud moment in my life with you. Last night was the ceremony for receiving my blackbelt in kenpo, something I’ve been working towards since August of 1998 when I first started studying the art. Because this was not held at our [...]

New York City - There are certain things that are quintessentially New York experiences. The Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and Times Square spring to mind. On the food front, New York’s primarily claim to fame is diversity and quantity. There are few places on the planet, if any, that can match it [...]